Leadership, Ritual Power and Festival Management in a Japanese Fishing

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1675
dc.contributor.author	Bulian Giovanni
dc.title	Leadership, Ritual Power and Festival Management in a Japanese Fishing Community
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The article provides an anthropological overview of the critical processes of empowerment and disempowerment of ritual leaders in a small Japanese fishing community. The main topic of the paper is a winter festival that takes place during the New Year’s Eve in Kamishima island (Ise Bay), 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 among the various local leaders.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	History and Society
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-03-26
dc.dateAccepted	2017-12-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-11-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-242-0/leadership-ritual-power-and-festival-management-in/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-226-0/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-242-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-226-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Anthropology of power
dc.subject	Anthropology of power
dc.subject	Festival management
dc.subject	Festival management
dc.subject	Fishing community
dc.subject	Fishing community
dc.subject	Folk religion
dc.subject	Folk religion
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Leadership
dc.subject	Leadership
dc.subject	Ritual power
dc.subject	Ritual power

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Leadership, Ritual Power and Festival Management in a Japanese Fishing Community

Giovanni Bulian Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The article provides an anthropological overview of the critical processes of empowerment and disempowerment of ritual leaders in a small Japanese fishing community. The main topic of the paper is a winter festival that takes place during the New Year’s Eve in Kamishima island (Ise Bay), 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 among the various local leaders.

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March 26, 2018

Accepted

Dec. 30, 2017

Submitted

Nov. 15, 2017

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978-88-6969-242-0

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978-88-6969-226-0

Keywords: Fishing community • Festival management • Leadership • Folk religion • Anthropology of power • Ritual power • Japan

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-226-0/007

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