Research field (1):
Cultural anthropology and folklore
Research keywords (4):
日本近代史
, 民俗学
, Modern Japanese History
, Folklore studies
Research theme for competitive and other funds (15):
2018 - 2022 日本新宗教史像の再構築:アーカイブと研究者ネットワーク整備による基盤形成
2015 - 2018 From Symbols of Stigma to Icons of Identity:A Study of Ritual Puppetry in the Revival of Awa(Tokushima) Ningyo Tradition.
2015 - 2018 Study of the multifaceted cultural history for the document before World War II of Zinbun-Shoin by the construction of the digital archive
2014 - 2018 Research on evaluation method of "Millennium Village" for its continuation
2013 - 2017 Reading the Record of a Hundred Years of Intra-East Asian Conflict and Cooperation through Research in Audio-Visual Materials
2012 - 2016 Historical Studies on Japanese Imperial Sciences and Its Network
2012 - 2016 The basic study on the mutual relationships between folklore,oral-literature and ajacent sciences around 1930.
2012 - 2015 Study of a changing community and media contents
2011 - 2015 Intellectural and Socio-cultural study of "the Kyoto University Cultural History (Bunka-shi) School"
2010 - 2014 The dynamic structure of life-representation : autobiography, autofiction, life history
2008 - 2010 Comparative study of the strategic acceptance and management of the World Heritage Convention in cultural property protection systems of Japan and Korea
2005 - 2008 Comparative Historical Approaches to Ideas of Spaces and Construction of new Human and Social Sciences
2005 - 2007 グローバリゼーションにおける民俗文化変容の研究-棚田を中心として-
2005 - 2007 A Study on the dynamism of folk culture under the condition of globalization: especially on rice terraces
2005 - 2007 Folkloristic Research on Conservation and Management of Landscape as Local Resource
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Papers (48):
KIKUUCHI Akira. How a Hokkaido native studying folklore compiles Selected Life History Reports: We as materials. Studies in Folk-Narrative. 2023. 46. 21-34
KIKUCHI Akira. Beyond the "National History" of folklore studies : Or warming-up exercises of "Comparative histories" of folklore studies. 2021. 118. 5-18
KIKUCHI Akira. “What Does it Mean to Become UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Case of aenokoto”. Aike P. Rots (Editor), Mark Teeuwen (Editor) Sacred Heritage in Japan, Routledge. 2020. 113-133
2002 - KOEN SHIGEMORI Award for Photography Criticism
Association Membership(s) (8):
The Folklore Society of Kyoto
, Society for Folk-Narrative Research of Japan
, 文化資源学会
, 日本文化人類学会
, 日本民俗学会
, The Association for the Atudy of Cultural Resources
, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
, The Folklore Society of Japan