A Trial of Interview Survey with Life History of Villagers for Rural Development: A Case Study of A Village, Ladakh India

特集2: 総合地球環境学研究所「高所プロジェクト」特集 = Special Issue 2: The High Altitude Project in Research Institute for Humanity and Nature農山村での過疎や高齢化が世界各国で深刻な問題として取り上げられるようになって以来、地域振興は社会学や経済学など様々な分野で調査・研究が進められてきた。このテーマでは、研究者として対象から情報を収集、解析した成果を論文に仕立てるとともに、個人として地域に貢献することも求められる。本稿では、足かけ6年にわたって調査を進めてきたインド北部ラダーク地方のドムカル村において、地域再生の一環で進めた物産誌づくりを行うプロジェクトに参加したことを契機に、住民9人を対象に聞き取ったライフヒストリーの内容と派生的に考察したことを報告する。聞き取りによると、50～60歳代の男性は軍関連の仕事に従事していた経験が多いのに対して、同世代の女性は村内にとどまって農牧畜複合経営の中心的な担い手だったことが判明した。来訪者に推奨する景観としては、アプローチの難しい「ゴンパランジョン」をあげる人が大半で、日常的に見られるものへの評価は確立されておらず、第三者的な視点を獲得する段階に到達していなかった。Since depopulation and aging in rural areas had become serious social problems globally, studies on reconstructing rural areas have been developed in various academic fields from sociology to economics. To take up these kind of topics as a researcher, individual contribution is required as well as writing a paper from the result of collecting and analyzing information from local communities in subject area. This paper particularly focuses on reporting life histories of nine locals of Domkhar, a village in Ladakh region of Northern part of India where I had researched for six years, as I got the opportunity to interview with them through participating a project to make a booklet for promoting their local products whilst helping revitalizing their community. According to the interview survey, some facts have been found; first, men age fifty to sixty years old have mostly experienced military related jobs while women in the same age group stayed in the village to be the main forces to run its agro-pastoral industry. Second, most of the villagers supported "Gomparanjon", a hardly approached idea, as recommended landscape of their own village. That means they have not established sense of evaluating their own everyday view, and they have not yet reached to the point to gain the objective landscape on themselves