@article{oai:rekihaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001629,
 author = {西谷, 大 and Nishitani, Masaru},
 journal = {国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {application/pdf, The study site is located in Zhemigu, one of the Laojizhai villages of the Lahu people in the Zhemi region of the Autonomous County of Jimping Miao, Yao and Dai, belonging to the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in China’s Yunnan Province. Here, mountains that are 2,000 to 3,000 meters tall occupy most of the region, leaving little space for flatlands. Eight minority groups (i.e. non-Han) account for most of the population in this region and are scattered throughout it. Each people lives at a different altitude, ranging from a height of 500m in the valleys to 1,500m on mountain slopes, where the geographical complexity and climate generate diverse ecological environments, resulting in different living strategies for each people.
In this article, I studied how the differences in the irrigation system of each people are related to the utilization of the environment, the living strategy and history of that people. I also compared their different living strategies in regard to factors such as irrigation systems and irrigation canals, methods for irrigating each rice terrace, and methods of paddy management.
As a result, it can be pointed out that in Zhemigu, differences in living strategies are generated by each people/village utilizing different ecological environments, rather than there being villages sharing the same utilization of the environment and an identical living style spread throughout the region. Also, characteristic of the living systems of Zhemigu is a complexity created by three differences: differences in ecological environment, utilization of the environment, and living strategy, and related market systems. The complex living system is supported by a sustenance system transcending the self-sufficient livelihood scope of each village, and its basis appears to be the living strategy by which each people/village transforms the uniqueness of its ecological environment into unique products/commodities.},
 pages = {63--100},
 title = {棚田の灌漑システムからみた水利用と環境利用の多様性 : 多民族が暮らす雲南国境地帯を事例として},
 volume = {145},
 year = {2008},
 yomi = {ニシタニ, マサル}
}