2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Historical Anthropological Study of Magic and Gender : A Case Study of the Spirit Medium Cult in Myanmar
| Project/Area Number |
20720247
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | National Museum of Ethnology |
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Principal Investigator |
IIKUNI Yukako National Museum of Ethnology, 外来研究員 (90462209)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | ジェンダー / ビルマ(ミャンマー) / モダニティ / 呪術 / 歴史人類学 / 霊媒カルト |
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| Research Abstract |
In Myanmar, the majority of mediums have changed to Meinmashas (Male to Female transgender) from women for these twenty years. Focusing on latter mediums, it has newly revealed that the relationship between their tutelary spirits, interpretation of the rituals and narrations of their dreams which is regarded as the proof of calling from spirits have changed among them. These changes can be regarded as one example that the sudden experiences of modernity such as capitalism or globalization have forced the system of religion and gender in Burma to be reorganized.
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