英文摘要 |
In the 1930s, Kunio Yanagita started working on the foundation of Japanese Cultural Traditionology, trying to establish an independent discipline domestically. He also put efforts on methodologies that are concerned with research and data collection. The publishing of Research Methodology of Folk Life (Kyoudo Seikatsu no Kenkyuho) was evidence. In this study synthesized multiple frameworks of taxonomy for folk data. In the beginning, by explaining the social, historical, and academic context where Research Methodology of Folk Life was published. Based on these contexts, this study clarifies Yanagita's definition of ''folk context (kyodo)'' and how he formulated this concept. Second, by focusing on the taxonomy of fieldwork, comparing different frameworks and standards that were created by Kunio Yanagoita, Shinobu Orikuchi, Taro Wakamori, Tokuji Chiba, and modification within these frameworks. Finally, based on the fieldwork methodology in Research Methodology of Folk Life, this study discusses a case about the changing status of ''folk property'' in the Act on Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan. Through examining the feasibility of Yanagita's theory and how it is applied to the policy-making process of The Act on Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan. |