著者

IMAZATO Satoshi

出版者

人文地理学会

雑誌

人文地理 (ISSN:00187216)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.6, pp.38-62, 2007-12-28

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This paper critically reevaluated the history of humanistic geography in Japan and English-speaking countries. Japanese applications to case studies have been mainly developed in rural and historical geography, maintaining its own humanistic perspectives nurtured in traditional Japanese academics. The essences of humanistic geography as positive science, however, have often been misunderstood, both inside and outside of Japan. The author accordingly reexamined the basic concepts and perspectives in the original approaches of Tuan, Relph, and Ley, as well as in the phenomenology of Husserl and Schutz, to more rigidly redefine humanistic geography: focusing on intersubjective order in human existential space or its representations; seeking universality of human reason and the senses; utilization of humanities or fieldwork materials considering inside humans' views; and philosophical reflections on the methodology of human sciences. From the viewpoint of this redefinition, we recognize that methodological cahllenges have accumulated within Japanese geography: semiotics of folk classifications of settlement spaces, quantitative textual analysis, epistemological reconsideration of space and landscape, and radical rethinking of the Western dualism betweeen 'human' and 'nature'.本稿では、日本と英語圏における人文主義(人間中心主義)地理学の歴史を、批判的に再検討した。日本での事例研究は、主に村落地理学と歴史地理学で展開され、国内で伝統的に培われてきた独自の人文主義的視点も保持されていた。しかしながら、実証科学としての人文主義地理学の核心は、国内外においてしばしば誤解されてきた。 そのため著者は、トゥアン、レイフ、レイそれぞれの元来のアプローチ、およびフッサールとシュッツの現象学に立ち戻って、基本的な概念と視点を再考し、人文主義地理学をより厳密に再定義した。すなわち、人間の実存空間やその表象にみる共同主観的秩序への注目、人間の理性と感性における普遍性の探究、内部の人間の視点に立った人文学的資料や現場調査資料の利用、人間科学の方法論の哲学的反省である。 この再定義からみた場合、日本の地理学においても、集落空間の民俗分類の記号論、計量的なテクスト分析、空間や景観に対する認識論の再検討、「人間」対「自然」という西洋流二元論の根本的再考といった形で、方法論上の挑戦が積み重ねられてきたといえる。

著者

IMAZATO Satoshi

出版者

The Association of Japanese Geographers

雑誌

Geographical review of Japan series B (ISSN:18834396)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.92, no.2, pp.51-71, 2020-03-31 (Released:2020-03-31)

参考文献数

51

被引用文献数

1

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This article explores how the sense of territoriality and various background conditions of Japanese rural communities affect the emergence of folk boundaries, which are viewed here as the contours of residents’ cognitive territory represented by religion-based symbolic markers. Specifically, I look at how the particular social-geographical conditions of different communities create diverse conceptions of such boundaries, including the presence or absence of the boundaries, within the same region. Here, I focus on three Japanese villages encompassing seven local religious communities of Shinto-Buddhists, Catholics, and former Hidden Christians on Hirado Island in Kyushu. These villages are viewed respectively as examples of contrastive coexistence, degeneration, and expansion in territoriality. Among the seven religious communities, only those believing in Shinto-Buddhism, as well as Hidden Christianity, have maintained their folk boundaries. These communities satisfy the conditions of an agglomerated settlement form, a size generally larger than ten households, a location isolated from other communities within the village, and strong social integration. In contrast, Catholics have not constructed such boundaries based on their historical process of settlement. However, they have influenced the forms of Shinto-Buddhists’ territoriality, although not those of Hidden Christians. Additionally, their settlement form and relative location among the other religious communities have affected the shape of the Shinto-Buddhists’ cognitive territories. Changes in these intertwined background conditions can transform the states of territoriality, which should be viewed as correlated rather than independent and as dynamic rather than static.

著者

IMAZATO Satoshi

出版者

The Association of Japanese Geographers

雑誌

Geographical review of Japan series B (ISSN:18834396)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.89, no.2, pp.58-59, 2017-04-03 (Released:2017-04-03)

参考文献数

7