演講：François LACHAUD
04 MAY 23
IHP-EFEO 專題演講
主講人：
Prof. François Lachaud
法國遠東學院教授兼東京中心主任
講題：
Wilderness, Mythology, and Ethno-folklorism:A Glimpse at the Cultural History of Bears in Japan
日期：
二〇二三年五月十六日（二）下午二時半
地點：
中央研究院歷史語言研究所 703會議室
摘要：
With more than 10,000 ‘crescent moon bears’ (tsukinowaguma 月輪熊) in Honshū and Shikoku and 2000 brown bears (higuma 羆) in Hokkaidō, Japan is home to an important population of ursidae. Bears remain on the margins of Japanese culture as terrifying presences in the wilderness, unwelcome outsiders, and have been the objects of long-lasting phobias but also symbols of the ‘barbarism’ of indigenous peoples (Ainu/Nivkh/Palaeo-Asatic) and non-sedentary populations in the north of the Japanese archipelago. If many forms of religious worship associated to the wolf —the Mitsumine Shrine 三峯神社in Saitama prefecture and the Musashi-Mitake Shrine in Ōme 青梅are the most famous sites— survived its extermination during the first years of the twentieth century, bear-cults are almost absent from ‘Japanese’ religious life past. Using texts and images ranging from ancient mythological treatises to the modern work of ethno-folklorists (minzoku gakusha 民俗學) or ‘Ainu Studies’ (ainugaku アイヌ學), this talk aims to show how the cultural history of the largest living predator in Japan can be better understood and decoded within a larger Asian and Eurasian context.
此演講由中研院史語所副研究員藍弘岳教授主持、法國遠東學院台北中心主任梅豪方教授共同主持。
此為英文演講。自由入座，無須報名
演講
主講人：
Prof. François Lachaud
法國遠東學院教授兼東京中心主任
講題：
Wilderness, Mythology, and Ethno-folklorism:A Glimpse at the Cultural History of Bears in Japan
日期：
二〇二三年五月十六日（二）下午二時半
地點：
中央研究院歷史語言研究所 703會議室
摘要：
With more than 10,000 ‘crescent moon bears’ (tsukinowaguma 月輪熊) in Honshū and Shikoku and 2000 brown bears (higuma 羆) in Hokkaidō, Japan is home to an important population of ursidae. Bears remain on the margins of Japanese culture as terrifying presences in the wilderness, unwelcome outsiders, and have been the objects of long-lasting phobias but also symbols of the ‘barbarism’ of indigenous peoples (Ainu/Nivkh/Palaeo-Asatic) and non-sedentary populations in the north of the Japanese archipelago. If many forms of religious worship associated to the wolf —the Mitsumine Shrine 三峯神社in Saitama prefecture and the Musashi-Mitake Shrine in Ōme 青梅are the most famous sites— survived its extermination during the first years of the twentieth century, bear-cults are almost absent from ‘Japanese’ religious life past. Using texts and images ranging from ancient mythological treatises to the modern work of ethno-folklorists (minzoku gakusha 民俗學) or ‘Ainu Studies’ (ainugaku アイヌ學), this talk aims to show how the cultural history of the largest living predator in Japan can be better understood and decoded within a larger Asian and Eurasian context.
此演講由中研院史語所副研究員藍弘岳教授主持、法國遠東學院台北中心主任梅豪方教授共同主持。
此為英文演講。自由入座，無須報名
演講