NOBUTA Toshihiro
Center for Research Development, Associate Professor
Academic Qualifications:
B.A. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 1992
M.A. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 1995
Ph.D. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 2002
B.A. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 1992
M.A. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 1995
Ph.D. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 2002
Research Topics:
1.Ethnographic study on Islam/islams in the marginal world
2.Social anthropological study on the social change by development
1.Ethnographic study on Islam/islams in the marginal world
2.Social anthropological study on the social change by development
Recent Research Interests:
I have studied the indigenous peoples of Malaysia using the technique of social anthropological fieldwork. The Orang Asli is indigenous people’s general term of the Malay Peninsula with the sub-ethnic group category of 18. Social anthropological investigation has been conducted living with the Temuan, one of the Orang Asli sub-groups, from 1996 to 1998.
I have been made to discern in the field what is important. Various dispute involving Islam converts had become a problem in the small village of population. The government was implementing the policy which Islamizes the Orang Asli. Under the influence of such a policy, people who convert to Islam increased in number in the Orang Asli society. It was in the situation of various dispute of village society produced as a result of such a policy that I was faced. On the other hand, before an Islamization policy, the government was implementing a development policy positively to the Orang Asli society. Between people who receive the benefit of development, and people who are not so, the difference of wealth and poverty was expanded and various confrontation and conflicts had arisen.
My research topics are: 1. Ethnographic study on Islam/islams in the marginal world and 2. Social anthropological study on the social change by development. Usually, Islam which the researcher makes applicable to research is Islam which exists at the center in the Islamic world. I want to consider different Islam from it. Thus, I think that I will consider Islam located in the boundary in the Islamic world. On the boundary in the Islamic world, various conflicts with other religion, such as Christianity and Hinduism, have arisen. I think that the method of an alternative understanding about Islam could be shown by comparing the state of islams in the boundary area in the Islamic world of every corner of the earth.
The concern about the problem which cannot be interpreted only at the reaction classified into acceptance and refusal of development has arisen as the history of the village which social division by class produced by development becomes clear. Many of people of the Orang Asli in which I had relation desired to receive the benefit of development. Their thinking they being dissatisfied to development was being unable to receive sufficient benefit of development. I think that the role given to the social and cultural anthropology is clarifying various development phenomena with the viewpoint from the recipient side of development.
I have studied the indigenous peoples of Malaysia using the technique of social anthropological fieldwork. The Orang Asli is indigenous people’s general term of the Malay Peninsula with the sub-ethnic group category of 18. Social anthropological investigation has been conducted living with the Temuan, one of the Orang Asli sub-groups, from 1996 to 1998.
I have been made to discern in the field what is important. Various dispute involving Islam converts had become a problem in the small village of population. The government was implementing the policy which Islamizes the Orang Asli. Under the influence of such a policy, people who convert to Islam increased in number in the Orang Asli society. It was in the situation of various dispute of village society produced as a result of such a policy that I was faced. On the other hand, before an Islamization policy, the government was implementing a development policy positively to the Orang Asli society. Between people who receive the benefit of development, and people who are not so, the difference of wealth and poverty was expanded and various confrontation and conflicts had arisen.
My research topics are: 1. Ethnographic study on Islam/islams in the marginal world and 2. Social anthropological study on the social change by development. Usually, Islam which the researcher makes applicable to research is Islam which exists at the center in the Islamic world. I want to consider different Islam from it. Thus, I think that I will consider Islam located in the boundary in the Islamic world. On the boundary in the Islamic world, various conflicts with other religion, such as Christianity and Hinduism, have arisen. I think that the method of an alternative understanding about Islam could be shown by comparing the state of islams in the boundary area in the Islamic world of every corner of the earth.
The concern about the problem which cannot be interpreted only at the reaction classified into acceptance and refusal of development has arisen as the history of the village which social division by class produced by development becomes clear. Many of people of the Orang Asli in which I had relation desired to receive the benefit of development. Their thinking they being dissatisfied to development was being unable to receive sufficient benefit of development. I think that the role given to the social and cultural anthropology is clarifying various development phenomena with the viewpoint from the recipient side of development.
Geographical Areas of Interest:
Southeast Asia, Malaysia
Southeast Asia, Malaysia
Ethnic Groups:
Orang Asli, Temuan
Orang Asli, Temuan
Discipline:
Social anthropology
Social anthropology
Publications:
2009 Living on the Periphery: Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli in Malaysia. Subang Jaya, Malaysia: Center for Orang Asli Concerns.
2009 Urbanization and Indigenous People: Development among the Orang Asli, Malaysia. In T. Goda (ed.) Urbanization and Formation of Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, pp.100–115. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers.
2008 Living on the Periphery: Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press.
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2007 Islamization Policy towards the Orang Asli in Malaysia. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 31(4): 479–495.
2009 Living on the Periphery: Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli in Malaysia. Subang Jaya, Malaysia: Center for Orang Asli Concerns.
2009 Urbanization and Indigenous People: Development among the Orang Asli, Malaysia. In T. Goda (ed.) Urbanization and Formation of Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, pp.100–115. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers.
2008 Living on the Periphery: Development and Islamization among the Orang Asli. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press.
→[Nut Graph 2010.05.04]
2007 Islamization Policy towards the Orang Asli in Malaysia. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 31(4): 479–495.
Presentations:
2005 “Urbanization and Indigenous People: Development among the Orang Asli, Malaysia.” International Sicence Conference, Urbanization and the Formation of Ethnicity in Southeast Asia ,Vien Dong Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2005 “Urbanization and Indigenous People: Development among the Orang Asli, Malaysia.” International Sicence Conference, Urbanization and the Formation of Ethnicity in Southeast Asia ,Vien Dong Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.