Revitalizing Anthropology

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  • 人類学を開く
  • 人類学を開く : 『文化を書く』から「サークル村」へ
  • ジンルイガク オ ヒラク : 『 ブンカ オ カク 』 カラ 「 サークルムラ 」 エ
  • 『文化を書く』から「サークル村」へ
  • From <i>Writing Culture</i> to the "Circle Village"

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<p>A quarter century has elapsed since the publication of Writing Culture, which described how to write about and envisage the "cultural other," and which continues to influence anthropologists greatly. But it is little known that one quarter century before the publication of that book, a sociocultural movement already existed in Japan describing how to face and write about the "other." This article aims to trace the steps of that sociocultural movement, known as "Circle Village," which posed various questions about the definition of the other and produced a wealth of monographs to answer them.</p> <p>The Circle Village was established in 1958 under the initiative of two excellent writers/organizers, Gan Tanigawa and Eishin Ueno, both based in Nakama City in the Chikuho district of Fukuoka Prefecture, an area with many coal mines. In the fifteen years immediately after World War II, the mines developed quickly, attracting many workers, including intellectuals. Near the end of the 1950's, though, the area's prosperity started to wane, sparking the emergence of several social and cultural movements that welcomed the intervention of people from the outside. Those were the circumstances in which the Circle Village became established in the area.</p> <p>It is well known that after World War II, so-called "circle" movements were launched throughout Japan to publish literary works and criticism. Of those, Circle Village was unique in that unlike other circles—which arose in one workplace or with one area as a base—it was formed with the aim of bringing together members of different circles from various parts of Kyushu, and solving the common problems that they confronted.</p> <p>(View PDF for the rest of the abstract.) </p>

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