Living on the Crumbling Land

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  • 崩れ続ける大地での暮らし
  • The Dynamics of Mountain Village Landscapes as Ruins of Industrial Capitalism in Western Tokushima, Japan
  • 徳島県西部における産業資本主義の跡地としての山村景観の力学／動態

Abstract

<p>This paper aimed to gain insight into the dynamics of mountain village landscapes, which have unique material characteristics, through collaboration involving cultural anthropologists and geoscientists involved in landscape production. To this end, the project starts with the theory of "feral landscapes," a landscape ethnography/history, which is a collaboration between geoscience （geomorphology） and cultural anthropology focusing on different time scales and different types of information. We aimed to show that the mountain village landscapes of contemporary Japan, which may appear to be "escapes from the state" or representations of "the past," are, in fact, "landscapes of the future" linked to the state and global capitalism, created through the interplay of state, industrial capitalist forces, and the exogenous influence of residents. Specifically, this paper describes how mountain village landscapes of Western Tokushima have emerged through interplay between times of the earth's tectonic plate movements, tobacco plantation production in mountain villages that have taken place since the early modern period, and daily practices that continue to operate repeatedly on the crumbling earth.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390861571065152640
  • DOI
    10.14890/jjcanth.88.2_243
  • ISSN
    24240516
    13490648
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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