Studies on the Acquisition and Inheritance of Culture

本项目的目的是调查东北非洲各种社会在其自身历史中获得和继承土著知识体系的文化手段，同时为解决人类今天面临的重大问题做出学术贡献，阐明这些文化手段在现代化进程中遇到的困难。该项目的成员于1995年至1997年在埃塞俄比亚和苏丹进行了实地研究。在研究期的前半部分，每个成员通过实地观察和访谈来识别文化遗产的传统类型。另一方面，在后半部分，成员们特别注意发现现代化对这些设备的影响，并对研究结果进行了相互比较。因此，人们发现，每个社会对现代化的反应非常不同，因为土著的文化遗产的装置工作，以科普和管理现代化进程。研究结果在第13届埃塞俄比亚研究国际会议和其他相关学术会议上报告。同时，也作为课题报告发表。通过实施以[传统教育;学校教育;文化认同]为关键词的课题研究策略，为文化传承与现代化的关系提供了一个模型。

The purpose of this project is to investigate cultural devices with which various kinds of societies in Northeast Africa acquire and inherit indigenous knowledge systems which they have cultuvated through their own history, and at the same time, to give academic contribution to solution of overriding problems that humankind is facing today, clarifying difficulties which such cultural divices meet with through modernization process.To carry out the above purpose, the members of this project conducted field researches in Ethiopia and Sudan from 1995 through 1997.1n the former half of the research term, each member engaged in identifying traditional diveces of cultural inheritance by field observations and interviews. In the latter half, on the other hand, the members paid special attention to finding influences of modernization to such devices, and compared the research results to each other. As a result, it was found that each societies respond very differently to modernization because indigenous devices of cultural inheritance work to cope and manage with modenization process. The results were reported in the 13th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies and other related academic conferences. At the same time, they were published as a report of the profect.By conducting this project in which members share key words [traditiona education ; school education ; cultural identity] as a research strategy, we offered a model to identify the relationship between device of cultural inheritance and modernization.