Seminar: François LACHAUD
04 MAY 23
IHP-EFEO Talk
Speaker:
Prof. Frédéric Constant
Université Côte d’Azur, Nice / EFEO
Title:
Gambling and Local Administration of Justice in 19th Century China
Date:
Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Venue:
Conference Room 2, Archive Building, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
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.
The talk will be chaired by Prof. Lan Hung-Yueh, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica & Prof. Frank Muyard, Head of EFEO Taipei Center.
The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
lecture
Speaker:
Prof. Frédéric Constant
Université Côte d’Azur, Nice / EFEO
Title:
Gambling and Local Administration of Justice in 19th Century China
Date:
Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Venue:
Conference Room 2, Archive Building, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
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.
The talk will be chaired by Prof. Lan Hung-Yueh, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica & Prof. Frank Muyard, Head of EFEO Taipei Center.
The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
lecture