著者

西海 賢二 NISHIGAI Kenji

出版者

現代民俗学会

雑誌

現代民俗学研究 = Journal of Living Folklore (ISSN:18839134)

巻号頁・発行日

no.1, pp.41-52, 2009-03

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It has been some time since people began to argue that folklore studies is in decline. The author might not be alone in thinking that a huge gap is opening between folklore studies and history as an adjacent academic field. In this paper, by looking back at works of and exchange among Tatsuo Hagiwara (Medieval history), Yoshihiko Amino (Medieval history), and Yoshio Yasumaru (Modern history), all historians who were active in the 1970s and 1980s and who positively evaluated folklore studies in Japan, the author provides, in the form of a memoir, insights into the possibility of integrating folklore studies and history, before questioning the integration of folklore studies with sociology, cultural anthropology, and ecology as currently proposed by scholars of folklore studies.