عنوان

Eloquent Plasticity

شماره

LA116776

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Eloquent Plasticity

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael Dylan Foster

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper explores Namahage of Akita Prefecture as it assumes three different instantiations: 1) enactment as a private ritual within individual households on New Year's Eve; 2) performance as a public festival at a shrine in mid-February; and 3) celebration as an "element" inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. I argue that in the first instance, Namahage is part of a vernacular religious "structure of feeling" in which religious elements are inseparable from community life; in the second instantiation, religion is more explicit and codified; and in the third iteration, religion is only vaguely articulated. Tracing the "same" tradition through different forms provides insight into the changing needs of communities and into the dynamics of change itself. With this in mind, I propose a model called hrönirism through which to broadly conceptualize notions of change and difference within traditions such as matsuri. This paper explores Namahage of Akita Prefecture as it assumes three different instantiations: 1) enactment as a private ritual within individual households on New Year's Eve; 2) performance as a public festival at a shrine in mid-February; and 3) celebration as an "element" inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. I argue that in the first instance, Namahage is part of a vernacular religious "structure of feeling" in which religious elements are inseparable from community life; in the second instantiation, religion is more explicit and codified; and in the third iteration, religion is only vaguely articulated. Tracing the "same" tradition through different forms provides insight into the changing needs of communities and into the dynamics of change itself. With this in mind, I propose a model called hrönirism through which to broadly conceptualize notions of change and difference within traditions such as matsuri.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

118-164

عنوان

Journal of Religion in Japan

شماره جلد

9/1-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2211-8349

اصطلاح موضوعی

festival

اصطلاح موضوعی

hrönir

اصطلاح موضوعی

matsuri

اصطلاح موضوعی

Namahage

اصطلاح موضوعی

ritual

اصطلاح موضوعی

UNESCO

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Michael Dylan Foster

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/22118349-00901004

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y