Anthropological Studies on Arts in African Societies : Their Tradition and Innovation

这项研究阐明了现代非洲表现文化在不同领域和地区的发展趋势。我们主要关注两个主题：城市艺术文化和传统表现文化。我们投资的城市艺术文化包括坦桑尼亚的Tinga Tinga绘画，金属作品和纺织品，象牙海岸和南非的流行音乐，布基纳法索的理发。在这一领域，我们厘清了艺术家们的“越界”活动，追溯了新的民族认同的形成过程。我们研究的传统表现文化有喀麦隆、王国的皇家和流行艺术，尼日尔的纺织品，象牙海岸、多哥、坦桑尼亚、几内亚比绍和刚果的表演艺术，以及南部非洲国家的珠饰。通过这些研究，我们阐明了艺术传统是如何在现代非洲背景下传播和创造的。一些文章已经在相关学术学会的期刊上发表。我们还计划以书籍的形式用日语和英语宣传这一结果。

This study has explicated on-going trends of modern Africa expressive cultures in various fields and regions. We focused on two main subjects in this study : urban artistic cultures and traditional expressive cultures.The urban artistic cultures we invested include Tinga Tinga paintings in Tanzania, metal works and textiles, popular music in Ivory Coast and South Africa, hair dressing in Burkina Faso. In this field, we clarified the "border-crossing" activities of artists and traced the process of the formation of new ethnic identity. The traditional expressive cultures we have studied are royal and popular arts in Cameroon, kingdoms, textiles of Niger bend, performing arts in Ivory Coast, Togo, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau and Congo, and beadwork of Southern African countries. Through these studies, we elucidate how artistic traditions have been transmitted and created in modern African contexts.A number of articles have already been published on journals of relevant academic societies. We are also planning to publicize the result in book form both in Japanese and in English.