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The Endurance and the Transformation of the Traditional Boats Race

On the Powers of Shaping the Folk Festival

Yasushi Nakano    University of Tsukuba    

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abstract

Now Japanese fishery and fishing villages are confronted with a difficult situation, for example, the erosion of fishing population, aging and etc. For this reason, Japanese fishery and fishing villages are asked for multilateral functions rather than only fishery production to survive themselves. In these social context, how fishing villagers do practice the folk festival in Japan? Firstly this article, giving a traditional event of boat race in a fishing village in south western Japan, clarifies the endurance and the transformation of it. Secondly, considering the causes and the conditions, this research sheds light on the significance of the practices between fishermen and the public, and on the problems of the powers between the fishing village and the government. Finally, it discusses the framework of research to be able to capture contemporary Japanese small scale fishery.

Published
March 26, 2018
Accepted
Dec. 26, 2017
Submitted
Sept. 12, 2017
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-242-0
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-226-0

Keywords: Folk eventMultilateral functionPowerPracticePublic participationInvisibilisation of difference

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