Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons. The chapters in this collection cover topics as diverse as funerals and mourning, sweeping, women's roles in ritual, the division of ceremonial foods into bitter and sweet, the history of a shrine, the playing of games, the exchange of towels and the relationship between ceremony and the workplace. The book provides an overview of the meaning of tradition, and looks at the way in which new ceremonies have sprung up in changing circumstances, while old ones have been preserved, or have developed new meanings.
目次
Introduction, Jan van Bremen Part 1 The question of tradition Chapter 1 Wedding and funeral ritual, Robert J. Smith Chapter 2 Rituality in the kengame, Sepp Linhart Chapter 3 The parish of a famous shrine, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis Part 2 Rituals for the dead Chapter 4 On structural duality in Japanese conceptions of death, Halldór Stefánsson Chapter 5 Orchestrated reciprocity, Jane M. Bachnik Chapter 6 Memorial monuments and memorial services of Japanese companies, Hirochika Nakamaki Part 3 The tools of ceremony Chapter 7 A Japanese Shint? Parade, Arne Kalland Chapter 8, D.P. Martinez Chapter 9 Sonaemono, Jane Cobbi Chapter 10, Joy Hendry Chapter 11 Cleaning floors and sweeping the mind, Ian Reader conclusion Conclusion: The rituals of urbanity, Augustin Berque;
ISBN
9780415514941 (pbk); 9780415116633 (hc); ISBN 9780203429549 (eb); 0415116635 (hc)
