The es-project focuses on the skills and knowledge of people living in Africa to create both tangible (e.g., commodities, processed agricultural products, souvenirs, etc.) and intangible (e.g., music performances, athletic performance, institutions, etc.) objects necessary for their lives in accordance with their natural environment and social situations. Through the experience of acquiring those skills by researchers, participatory observation, we are examining how people in Africa are sharing skills and knowledge and encouraging technological innovation. In addition, the author considers how the penetration of industrial products and ways of thinking from the outside, including modern schooling, has affected the sharing of local knowledge and the developing creativity.
Projects on this issue
- JSPS Scientific Research Fund-B on reconsidering the concept of waste and formation of Materiality in Africa [No.18H03444], AY2018-AY2022.
PI: M.KANEKO, Co-I: M. SHIGETA & S.OYAMA - JSPS Scientific Research Fund-C on rhe formation of creativities of pottery making and materiality in Africa, AY2014-AY2017.
PI: M.KANEKO - JSPS Post-doctoral research fund on the interregional comparison of craftworks in Africa, AY2006-AY2009.
PI: M.KANEKO
Major achievements
- Morie Kaneko 2016 Absence de restes dans une societe non occidentale, Les Ari du Sud-Ouest de L’Ethiopie, eds. Frederic Joulian, Yann-Philippe Tastevin et Jamie Furniss, Techniques & Culture Numero 65-66: 134-137.
- Morie Kaneko 2016 Variations in Shape, Local Classification, and the Establishment of a Chaîne Opératoire for Pot Making among Female Potters in Southwestern Ethiopia, H. Terashima & B. Hewlett (eds.), Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers: Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives. Springer, pp. 217-227. (318p)