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コースの概要

人類文化研究コースは、国立民族学博物館が基盤機関となり、先史時代から現代まで人類が世界各地で形成してきた多様な文化に関して学びます。文化人類学・民族学とその関連分野の視点に立ち、特定の文化を記述分析する民族誌学的研究や、特定の観点から文化を比較する通文化的研究をおこないます。学生は、フィールド調査で得たデータ、国立民族学博物館が所蔵する標本、映像・音響、文献資料等を活用しながら研究し、博士論文の完成を目指します。
本コースは、修士の学位を取得した学生、およびそれと同等以上の学力があると認めた学生を受け入れる博士後期課程のみからなり、コースに所属する学生は大阪府吹田市に所在する人間文化研究機構国立民族学博物館において学修・研究活動を行います。

目指す博士像

人類文化研究コースは、国立民族学博物館が基盤機関となり、先史時代から現代まで人類が世界各地で形成してきた多様な文化に関して学びます。文化人類学・民族学とその関連分野の視点に立ち、特定の文化を記述分析する民族誌学的研究や、特定の観点から文化を比較する通文化的研究をおこないます。学生は、フィールド調査で得たデータ、国立民族学博物館が所蔵する標本、映像・音響、文献資料等を活用しながら研究し、博士論文の完成を目指します。
本コースは、修士の学位を取得した学生、およびそれと同等以上の学力があると認めた学生を受け入れる博士後期課程のみからなり、コースに所属する学生は大阪府吹田市に所在する人間文化研究機構国立民族学博物館において学修・研究活動を行います。

• フィールド調査や資料分析を通して事象を深く理解し、自由な発想に基づいて、主体的に新たな独創的な知的価値を創造することができる人物
• 自らの専門性に立脚しつつ、融合的・学際的な視点から関連分野の課題に関心を寄せ、幅広い学術の進展に資することができる見識豊かな人物
• 国・地域・言語・文化・性別・宗教などの差異とマイノリティ性を尊重し、対話と協働に基づき、高い普遍性をもつ学術成果を国際的に発信することができる人物
• 自らが行う学術研究の社会的な意義や位置づけを認識し、研究者としての倫理観と責任感をもって自律して行動できる人物

学修活動・研究活動

本コースの学生は、専門分野に蓄積された知見や方法論に関する講義、研究課題に関連する討論を行う演習、学生個々のニーズに即した論文作成指導を活かして、自らの研究課題への理解を深め、高度な研究を推進する力を身につけます。
1.１年生ゼミナール（授業科目名「基礎演習１・２」）において、以下の3つのシリーズを受講します。入学直後、学生は個々のこれまで行ってきた研究および博士課程での研究計画を「研究計画シリーズ」で発表します。各教員が交代で専門分野についての講義をし、それに基づいて議論を進めることで学生が幅広い知識を習得することを目的とする「テーマ・シリーズ」を受講します。１年間の教育研究過程を経たうえで改めて学生が自らの今後の研究計画を練り上げ「リサーチプロポーザル・シリーズ」において発表します。
2.文化人類学・民族学とその周辺分野の基礎的な知識と方法論を習得するために、共通科目（授業科目名「人類文化研究基礎１・２」）を選択し履修します。
3.各種助成金、コースの学生派遣事業、SOKENDAI研究派遣プログラムなどを活用しフィールド調査を実施します。
4.投稿論文および博士論文の一部に関して論文ゼミナール（授業科目名「論文演習１・２」）で数回発表し、参加者からの批判や助言を受け、討論やコメント、論点の整理などのスキルを磨き、かつ研究を進めるうえで必要な多角的・複合的な視点を身につけます。
5.指導教員による指導（授業科目名「先端学術院特別研究ⅢA～ⅤB」）と論文ゼミナールによる議論を得ながら博士論文の章になるいくつかの投稿論文を発表し、最終的に博士論文を作成します。

カリキュラム・モデル

学位を取得するには

学位の取得には、人類文化研究コースの教育課程における修了要件を満たし、文化人類学・民族学とその関連分野の基本的な知識と教養を身につけたうえで、自立した研究者としての力量を身につけ、審査および試験に合格した者に学位を授与します。予備審査に出願して合格した博士論文は本審査にかけられ、論文公開発表会と審査委員による口述試験を経て審査されます。文化科学領域教育会議で学位授与が承認されると、博士（文学）ないし博士（学術）の学位が授与されます。

入学を目指す方へ

求める学生像

文化人類学・民族学とその関連分野の研究に対する強い関心を持ち、世界の動向と人類の活動、およびそれらを捕捉しようとする学問の現在を俯瞰的に捉えながら、新しい時代を切り開く研究を目指して豊かな知性と感性を絶えず研磨し、国際的に活躍する意志、語学力、コミュニケーション能力を兼ね備えた学生を求めます。

入学者の選抜について

入学者を選抜するにあたり、本コースの基盤となる国立民族学博物館が担う文化人類学・民族学とその関連分野において、自立的に研究を推進することのできる構想力・基礎学力と論理的な思考力および表現力を重視します。そのような力を適正に判定するために、書類選考、修士論文審査、これまでに発表した論文がある場合はその論文の審査、および面接による選抜を実施します。

Before March 2023

Department of Regional Studies

専攻の目的

民族学・文化人類学の分野を中心とする隣接諸科学に関して高度な専門知識を持ち、諸地域における多様な文化についての現地研究等を通じて、高度な研究を行える研究者及び高度な専門性をもって国際的に社会に貢献できる人材の育成を目的とします。

Basic Policy

The Department of Regional Studies provides education and research on cultures of people living in the Asian, African, European, American and Oceanian regions. Considering the characteristics and history of each region, you aim to state cultures, clarify structure, and grasp changes based on the ethnographical methodology. Personnel who are capable of analyzing the data obtained through fieldwork for theorization, as well as of making academic contributions and practical suggestions, are fostered.

Diploma Policy

The Department of Regional Studies aims to foster personnel who are capable of making academic contributions and offering practical suggestions based on the outcomes of cultural studies and researches in the Asian, African, European, American and Oceanian regions in accordance with the methodologies in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences. The students of this Department are required to acquire the knowledge and capabilities stated below, study in the Department for the prescribed years or more under the required research guidance, get the prescribed credits or more, and pass the doctoral thesis examination and test.

• Capability to voluntarily pursue original research on cultural aspects in specific regions with advanced technical knowledge in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences
• Capability to acquire study and research approaches in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences, to collect, organize and analyze data in accordance with those approaches, and to present and release the outcomes with clarity and cogency in the form of books, exhibitions, and audiovisual works
• Capability to raise cutting-edge issues, and to proceed with the development of new research approaches while referring to preceding cultural research for target regions and having interest in transdisciplinary socio-cultural changes that cross or subsume the regions
• Capability to tackle modern issues which people of the target regions face, and to propose or implement solutions based on the sophisticated expertise on cultures in the target regions
• Capability to widely disseminate the research outcomes to Japan and the world with sufficient research competency by international standards, and to have discussions with foreign researchers, as well as communicativity and leadership to lead the research

Curriculum Policy

Students of the Department of Regional Studies acquire cultural expertise on the target regions by attending the lectures and seminars on cultures in the Asian, African, European, American and Oceanian regions. At the same time, attending the lectures and seminars delivered by the Department of Comparative Studies which exists in the same institution also enables the students to acquire perspectives to compare cultures of diverse regions and consider the universality and particularity of human beings.

In the seminars, each student acquires a capability to voluntarily envisage and implement his/her own research, and to present the outcomes. Under the Basic Seminar I・II (Regional Studies) (First-Year Seminar) in the first year, each student aims to acquire the capability to deepen his/her interest and willingly formulate plans, as well as to learn how to conduct fieldwork and bibliographic surveys. Under the Seminar I・II (Regional Studies) (Thesis Seminar) in the second year and thereafter, each student cultivates a capability to develop multidirectional and unique discussions by presenting the outcomes step by step while organizing and analyzing data after the surveys, aiming at the completion of his/her doctoral thesis.

The National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, to which the Department belong, attracts numerous researchers from outside and inside Japan. Joint research meetings and symposiums are frequently held, and activities such as exhibitions and lectures are also offered to citizens. Active involvement in these activities has allowed the students of this Department to foster an international and interdisciplinary research ability, leadership, and practical social skills.

Each student receives detailed guidance from his/her doctoral advisor and deputy advisor in all processes from admission to the attainment of a doctorate according to his/her individual targets, interest and quality.

Curriculum Model (in Japanese only)

Admission Policy

Required Students

• Students who have much interest in cultures of diverse regions in the world, and are capable of pursuing research activities with high motivation for basic research in cultural anthropology and ethnology in particular
• Students who have the basic methodological knowledge and language skills required for surveys to collect data on cultures of target regions, as well as who are capable of pursuing surveys
• Students who are eager to study and research transdisciplinary socio-cultural changes that cross or subsume the specific region from an expanded perspective
• Students who are willing to be involved in modern issues which people living in various regions of the world face
• Students who are capable of sufficiently reading academic papers and have a basic thesis-writing ability

Basic Concept for Screening

In the first screening process (documentary examination), your master thesis or any other academic paper is evaluated based on the items of originality, grasp of research history, validity, and logicality. Additionally, your research content (overview of research activities, summary of research implemented so far, and research to be conducted from now) is assessed based on the items of adequacy of planning, concreteness of planning, academic significance, and evolvability.
In the second screening process (interview), your discussion skills, linguistic ability, research motivation, and other aspects are evaluated through an oral examination on your research implemented so far, content of your master thesis, and research to be conducted from now.
Whether you pass or fail will be determined comprehensively based on the evaluation of each item in the documentary and interview screening processes.

Department of Comparative Studies

専攻の目的

民族学・文化人類学の分野を中心とする隣接諸科学に関して高度な専門知識をもち、人類社会に共通する文化についての比較研究等を通じて、高度な研究を行える研究者及び高度な専門性をもって国際的に社会に貢献できる人材の育成を目的とします。

Basic Policy

The Department of Comparative Studies, which provides education and research in six fields of comparative society, comparative religion, comparative technology, comparative language, comparative art, and cultural resources, aims at the discovery of the universality underlying each culture through comparative research for each culture, as well as at theoretical interpretation.　The Department fosters personnel having sophisticated research capability who proactively proceed with the development of new approaches by introducing the achievements in adjacent sciences such as informatics, in addition to the existing methodology in cultural anthropology.

Diploma Policy

The Department of Comparative Studies aims to foster personnel who are capable of making academic contributions and offering practical suggestions based on the outcomes of discovery of the universality underlying each culture through comparative research in accordance with the methodologies in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences, as well as of theoretical interpretation. The students of this Department are required to acquire the knowledge and capabilities stated below, study in the Department for the prescribed years or more under the required research guidance, get the prescribed credits or more, and pass the doctoral thesis examination and test.

• Capability to voluntarily pursue original research through comparison of human cultures with advanced technical knowledge in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences
• Capability to acquire study and research approaches in cultural anthropology, ethnology, or adjacent sciences, to collect, organize and analyze data in accordance with those approaches, and to present and release the outcomes with clarity and cogency in the form of books, exhibitions, and audiovisual works
• Capability to explore a cutting-edge field from cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives based on the sophisticated expertise, and to proceed with the development of new research approaches by introducing and applying the achievements in adjacent sciences such as informatics
• Capability to tackle practical issues in response to social demand, and to find solutions while multidirectionally researching the issues of global modern society becoming complex with much interest
• Capability to widely disseminate the research outcomes to Japan and the world with sufficient research competency by international standards, and to have discussions with foreign researchers, as well as communicativity and leadership to lead the research

Curriculum Policy

The Department of Comparative Studies, which aims at the discovery of the universality underlying each culture through comparative research for each culture, as well as at theoretical interpretation, sets a series of academic disciplines of comparative society, comparative religion, comparative technology, comparative language, and comparative art. Through a series of disciplines on cultural resources, you can learn organization, analysis and management of materials, as well as achievements in informatics. Additionally, attending the lectures and seminars delivered by the Department of Regional Studies which exists in the same institution enables the students to learn individual diverse cultures.

In the seminars, each student acquires a capability to voluntarily envisage and implement his/her own research, and to present the outcomes. Under the Basic Seminar I・II (Comparative Studies) (First-Year Seminar) in the first year, each student aims to acquire the capability to deepen his/her interest and willingly formulate plans, as well as to learn how to conduct fieldwork and bibliographic surveys. Under the Seminar I・II (Comparative Studies) (Thesis Seminar) in the second year and thereafter, each student cultivates a capability to develop multidirectional and unique discussions by presenting the outcomes step by step while organizing and analyzing data after the surveys, aiming at the completion of his/her doctoral thesis.

The National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, to which the Department belong, attracts numerous researchers from outside and inside Japan. Joint research meetings and symposiums are frequently held, and activities such as exhibitions and lectures are also offered to citizens. Active involvement in these activities has allowed the students of this Department to foster an international and interdisciplinary research ability, leadership, and practical social skills.

Each student receives detailed guidance from his/her doctoral advisor and deputy advisor in all processes from admission to the attainment of a doctorate according to his/her individual targets, interest and quality.

Curriculum Model (in Japanese only)

Admission Policy

Required Students

• Students who have much interest in human cultures, and are capable of pursuing research activities with high motivation for academic theorization and its social application in particular
• Students who have the basic methodological knowledge and language skills required for surveys to collect data on target cultures, as well as who are capable of pursuing surveys
• Students who are eager to explore a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary field with much interest not only in cultural anthropology and ethnology but also in adjacent sciences
• Students who are willing to be involved in the issues of global modern society becoming complex
• Students who are capable of sufficiently reading academic papers and have a basic thesis-writing ability

Basic Concept for Screening

In the first screening process (documentary examination), your master thesis or any other academic paper is evaluated based on the items of originality, grasp of research history, validity, and logicality. Additionally, your research content (overview of research activities, summary of research implemented so far, and research to be conducted from now) is assessed based on the items of adequacy of planning, concreteness of planning, academic significance, and evolvability.
In the second screening process (interview), your discussion skills, linguistic ability, research motivation, and other aspects are evaluated through an oral examination on your research implemented so far, content of your master thesis, and research to be conducted from now.
Whether you pass or fail will be determined comprehensively based on the evaluation of each item in the documentary and interview screening processes.