Rethinking training in cultural anthropology : meeting the new needs of Japanese society

这是一个关于日本人类学教育的研究项目的报告，以及它在多大程度上满足了当代世界不断变化的社会需求。该项目于2001年4月至2003年3月在日本科学促进会科学研究补助金的支持下实施。本报告由三个部分组成。第一部分“当代日本人类学教育的问题”是第一年研究的结果。分析的受试者包括：本报告介绍了东京大学文化人类学系的文学学士学位论文主题的趋势、日本的人类学教科书、日本主要大学的人类学课程和教学实践、人类学研究生的就业市场以及大坂国立民族学博物馆的机构重组。该报告提出了日本人类学教育今后应采取的方向。第二部分和第三部分是第二年的研究成果。第二部分的题目是“我们如何将经典人类学理论与当代世界的问题联系起来。“这涉及到我们今天在人类学教学中面临的问题，其中人类学的经典理论与当代问题没有明确的关系。第三部分是2002年11月在美国新奥尔良举行的美国人类学协会年会上发表的关于“人类学知识的再生产与东亚的未来”的专题讨论会上的三篇论文，这是本研究项目成果的一部分。总的来说，报告提出了提升人类学和人类学教育的方法，以适应当代世界新的社会环境。

This is the report of a research project on anthropological education in Japan, and the extent to which it is meeting the changing social needs of the contemporary world. The project was carried out from April 2001-March 2003, with the support of a grant-in-aid for scientific research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The report consists of three parts. Part One, "Problems in Anthropological Education in Contemporary Japan," is the result of the first year's research. Subjects analyzed include : the trends in the subjects of BA theses submitted to the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo, anthropology textbooks in Japan ; the anthropology curriculum and teaching practices at major Japanese universities ; job markets for graduate students in anthropology ; and institutional restructuring at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. The report suggests directions that anthropology education should take in the future in Japan. Part Two and Part Three are the fruits of the second year's research. Part Two is entitled "How can we relate classic anthropological theories to issues in the contemporary world." This deals with the problems we are facing in anthropology teaching today in which the classic theories in anthropology bear no clear relationship to contemporary issues. Part Three contains three papers presented at a panel on the "Reproduction of Anthropological Knowledge and the East Asian Future" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association held in New Orleans in November, 2002, as part out of the output from this research project, and one paper which is related to the topic. Taken as a whole, the report proposes ways in which anthropology and anthropology education can be upgraded to meet the new social circumstances of the contemporary world.