タイ農村研究への視角 : 故水野浩一教授の業績をめぐって(<特集>故水野浩一教授を偲んで)

Abstract

The late Professor Koichi Mizuno started his field study as an anthropologist in June, 1964 at Don Daeng Village in Northeast Thailand, where he spent more than a year. Based on this field work, he published about ten valuable ethnographic reports and articles in Japanese or English. Among them, his description and analysis of the multi-household compound is unique and important, in spite of the overemphasis it places on the function of this domestic unit. His neglect of mobility and population increase is the weak point of his conceptualization of Thai Villages. His later life was devoted to the study of socioeconomic change in Thai villages. His work in collecting time-series data from certain villages is especially valuable. It is to be regretted that the data so far published are limited to the sphere of economic change and that he passed away before he was able to deal more with the socio-cultural aspects.