Qu’est-ce que la modernologie ?

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关键词: Great Kantô Earthquake;    city;    present-time;    observation;    daily life;    translation;   

DOI  :  10.4000/traces.7103

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this text he wrote in 1927, Kon Wajirô (1888-1973), an unclassifiable and prolific intellectual whose works addresses various fields such as folklore studies, architecture, urban planning, clothing studies, or drawing, reflects on the research that he and some of his colleagues undertook in the streets of Tokyo during the second half of the 1920’s. The text serves as a manifesto of modernology : a new science devoted to the fine-grained observation of daily practices of contemporary men and women – within and outside the city – that Kon whished to build as a counterpoint both to archeology and to ethnology. Kon recalls here the genesis of such a project and especially the emergency to collect life happening in front of his eyes that he felt immediately after the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923. He also proposes numerous topics of inquiry necessary to the exhaustive and detailed compilation of present-time habits.

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