Aoyama Gakuin University
Online Talk:Animals in the Forest and Anthropological Manga
Sat, Jul 17
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Time & Location
Jul 17, 2021, 10:00 AM – 11:05 PM
Online
About the event
報告者:奥野克巳(立教大学 異文化コミュニケーション学部・教授)
Okuno Katsumi, Professor (anthropology), Rikkyo University
2006年東南アジアのボルネオ島の熱帯雨林に住む狩猟採集民プナンと暮らし始めた私は、しだいに動物が人々の暮らしに深く広く溶け込んでいることに魅了されていった。日々食べるために狩る野生動物たちに対して強いタブーが行われているだけでなく、動物たちとの関係をめぐって複雑な習慣があり、たくさんの動物譚が語られ、私は彼らが人間のことを話しているのか動物のことを話しているのか聞き分けることができなかった。私が日常的に目の当たりにする狩られた野生動物たちを遥かに凌駕する動物たちの豊かな動きは、「唯物論的に」もしくは「象徴論的に」動物を捉えているだけでは達しえないし、文字や言語だけに囚われた民族誌的な伝統を重視する人類学では扱いえないのではないかと思うようになった。マンガ家とともにフィールドに赴いたことをきっかけに、マリノフスキが約百年前に唱えたフィールドの「実生活の不可量部分」に光をあてたいと思い、近頃「人類学マンガ」を共同制作した。その制作過程で気づいた幾つかの点を共有しながら、人文学の対象をマンガで表現することの意義や課題について考えてみたい。
In 2006, I started to dwell with the Penan hunter-and-gatherers living in the tropical rainforest of Borneo in Southeast Asia, and I was gradually fascinated by how deeply and widely animals were integrated into the lives of the people. Not only were there strong taboos against the wild animals they hunted for food on a daily basis, but there were also complicated customs surrounding their relationship with the animals. So many animal tales were told and I could not distinguish whether people were talking about humans or animals. I began to think that the richness of the movement of wildlife in and out of the forest, which far surpassed the hunted animals that I witnessed on a regular basis, could not be reached through "materialist" or "symbolic" approaches to animals, nor could it be handled by anthropology, which emphasizes ethnographic traditions confined to writing and language. When I visited the field with a manga artist, I realized that I wanted to shed light on the "imponderabilia of real life" in the field, as Malinowski advocated some hundred years ago and then I collaborated on an "anthropological manga". In this talk, I would like to share some of the points I have noticed in the process of making the manga, and think about the significance and challenges of expressing the topics of the humanities in manga.