Date: December 20, 2008 (Sat.) 14：00～18：00
Venue: Meeting Roon, the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall
Presentation:
・Kazuyoshi Sugawara
(Professor, Graduate School of Humand and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
・Takeo Funabiki
(Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sociences)
【Record of Activity】
It’s been almost 40 years since the days of the student movement at the end of the 1960s as symbolized by the Zenkyoto (All-campus Joint Struggle Council) movement. It is said that the student movement that took place on a global scale emerged from the social situation at the time but also changed the situation, leading to a philosophical transformation in the academic fields of the humanities and social sciences. Looking back at the history of anthropology in Japan, however, it is apparent that there has been no examination as to how this era influenced research and the ideas of anthropology.
How did people who had set their hearts on becoming anthropologists live through this era and engage themselves in this situation? How did that experience influence the formulation of their thoughts? At this symposium, based on the reports of two anthropologists who lived through the Zenkyoto era, we discussed the student movement at the time and examined the relationship between the student movement and anthropologists. Both Kazuyoshi Sugawara and Takeo Funabiki spoke in detail about the situation at the time, albeit from a personal point of view, to quote their words, and expressed their views on the relationship between that experience and modern philosophy. After the reports, Masanori Oda presented some comments on today’s activism and anthropology, and Shimpei Ota examined the situation from the perspective of a comparison with the reminiscences of former labor movement activists in Korea.
(Naomi Hosoda)