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Study Groups and Achievements
Arrangement and Systematization of the Environment and Scenery
Task 2: Research on Environmental Recognition and Its Changes
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The researchers themselves would rephrase “environmental recognition” as an idea to which the accumulation of information obtained in the field of folklore (which studies how man reached out to the environment and tried to understand it) can be applied usefully. We were able figure out this idea through cases where we investigated the daily lives of Ama (sea divers) and through studies on the history of slash-and-burn villages. However, it must be pointed out that simply grasping the changes in the environment alone is not enough to understand the environment as a totality that includes human beings; our studies must also include the views of the human beings who actively reach out to the environment. This point is the stand-out issue for our future research.
