Collana | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Miscellanea | Small-scale Fisheries in Japan
Capitolo | Leadership, Ritual Power and Festival Management in a Japanese Fishing Community
Leadership, Ritual Power and Festival Management in a Japanese Fishing Community
Abstract
The article provides an anthropological overview of the critical processes of empowermentand disempowerment of ritual leaders in a small Japanese fishing community. The main topicof the paper is a winter festival that takes place during the New Year’s Eve in Kamishima island (IseBay), whose management and celebration represent an important catalyst for local leadership,which is related to the transformation of the local institutions and to the power relations amongthe various local leaders.
Presentato: 15 Novembre 2017 | Accettato: 30 Dicembre 2017 | Pubblicato 26 Marzo 2018 | Lingua: en
Keywords Anthropology of power • Leadership • Fishing community • Folk religion • Japan • Festival management • Ritual power
Copyright © 2018 Giovanni Bulian. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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