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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 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.

Pubblicato
26 Marzo 2018
Accettato
30 Dicembre 2017
Presentato
15 Novembre 2017
Lingua
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-242-0
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-226-0

Keywords: Folk religionFishing communityAnthropology of powerFestival managementLeadershipRitual powerJapan

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.