The Dynamics of Ethnic Cultures in Insular Southeast Asia : The Interplay of local, National and Global Perspectives

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This three-year research project focused the dynamics of culture in contemporary Insular Southeast Asia in the interplay of local, national and global perspectives. In 1994 and 1995, the first two years of the project, fieldwork was carried out in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia, according to each investigator's research concern : namely, Javanese batik cloth industry (Teruo Sekimoto), Balinese custom (Haruya Kagami) and Balinese religion (Yasuyuki Nagafuchi), Sundanese music (Syota Fukuoka), tourism and local cultural identity in Indonesia (Shinji Yamashita), tourist impact on Balinese society, (Wayan Geriya), local culture and national integration in Indonesia (Budhisantoso), Filipino folk Catholicism and popular culture (Hiromu Shimizu), and nomadic people in the Philippine-Malaysia border (Ikuya Tokoro).Through the fieldwork, we could collect important data to clarify the the contemporary cultural dynamism in Insular Southeast Asia in relation to the rapid economic growth in th … More e region concerned. At the same time we have accumulated data to make a theoretical model on the cultural dynamism in Insular Southeast Asia at the era of globalization. In order to discuss these issues, a workshop was made at Tokyo from 30 October to 2 November in 1996, the final year of the project, in which not only Japanese but also foreign researchers from Indonesia joined. In the workshop we could examine the result of the research intensively and at the same time develop academic linkage and friendship for further research in the future.Each investigator in the project has already published partial outcome of this research project. And in the near future we will put together all the result of the research to publish a book in English based on the discussion at the workshop mentioned. This book aims not only to make a new light to the study of contemporary cultural dynamism in Southeast Asia in the local, national and transnational/global perspective but also to build a new theoretical model of cultural dynamism in the field of cultural anthropology. Less