The rousing drum : ritual practice in a Japanese community /

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Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic tendency toward an overly narrow time frame, which highlights current relationships and conditions rather than long-term developments. The Rousing Drum takes a different view. It adop...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schnell, Scott, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Festivals > Japan.
Fêtes > Japon.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Festivals
Manners and customs
Riten.
Tambour > Aspect religieux > Shintō.
Rites et cérémonies > Japon.
Japan > Social life and customs.
Japon > Mœurs et coutumes.
Japan
Japon > Moeurs et coutumes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Ethnological and Historical Perspectives
  • 2. Matsuri as Communal Ritual
  • 3. Territorial and Collective Identities
  • 4. Furukawa Matsuri: Performance
  • 5. Furukawa Matsuri: Mobilization
  • 6. Origins and Early Development
  • 7. Authority, Resistance, and Ritualization
  • 8. From Symbolism to Instrumentality
  • 9. Commodification
  • 10. Ritual, Change, and Agency
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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