Joint Research (Type IV）
An Incubation Study on Social Dynamics of Maritime Southeast Asia: Focusing
on the Population Flow and the Making of Sea Folks
Project Leader: NAGATSU, Kazufumi, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University
（Term：2009 - 2010）
- Joint Seminars in 2009 - 2010 Fiscal Year
- Outline of Joint Research
- This project aims at collecting spatial as well as historical data on maritime
Southeast Asia, creating a database of the data, and exploring the social
dynamics of the maritime world based on the database in cooperation with
CSEAS. It mainly makes use of original and fieldwork-based resources which
are to be extracted from; 1) written materials such as colonial records,
national censuses, and statistics, as well as visual material such as maps
and GIS data in the CSEAS repository, 2) field notes and photographs of
project members, CSEAS and ex-CSEAS staff who have conducted research in
aquatic societies in Southeast Asia, and 3) raw records regarding maritime
livelihood including information on sea products, fishing activities, distribution
as well as maritime population networks. The last records are expected
to be obtained through research at the CSEAS Makassar Field Station, Hasanuddin
University in Indonesia.
- Purpose of Joint Research
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- The main objectives of the project are to publish basic data collections
on the “Social Dynamics in Southeast Asian Maritime World/s,” through accumulation
and analytical reconstruction of raw data such as digitized census, GIS
or the field records on maritime Southeast Asia in CSEAS, and to provide
an academic foundation with research on maritime Southeast Asia in order
to integrate their findings and also to facilitate the comparative area
studies on the dynamics of maritime worlds. Since the basic data collections
include the raw data on marine resource utilization, language usage, origin
or migration myths, and material cultures among maritime folks, the study
may not only contribute to the further development of the study on socio-cultural
dynamics in Insular Southeast Asia, but also to incubate an inter-disciplinary
approach to integrated area studies on maritime Southeast Asia.
- The project will provide open research resources on maritime Southeast
Asia with researchers by integrating raw written data stored in CSEAS and
digitized data (especially census and GIS data) which has been published
since 2000. Specifically, this historical as well as spatial data will
serve as a basic foundation for the study of population flows and ethnic
group formation processes in maritime Southeast Asia. The leader and members
of the project will publish papers based on the above-mentioned data on
the social dynamics of maritime communities in Southeast Asia. Their studies
will constitute an attempt through area studies in which we re-examine
and understand the historical processes of the formation of the maritime
world in Southeast Asia by focusing on maritime folks as main actors of
the world.
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