2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Tactics of Popular Culture between the Social Space and ReligiousPractice in Mexico: The case of Saint Death
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22720334
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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 | Soka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 社会空間 / 民衆文化 / 聖人信仰 / 死 / サンタ・ムエルテ / テピート / グローバリ ゼーション |
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| Research Abstract |
The Cult of Saint Death as the Mexican Popular Culture has following characteristics.1)Appropriating the existing cultural resources including social space such as Tepito districtgranted with negative image, 2)providing an identity of subordinate social ranks to their Believers, and 3) swaying the existing cultural category. On the other hands, the Cult possesses verbal manifestations at global, national, and local levels, characterized as categorization by uncertain verbal explanation. At the same time, it has confirmed that in the movement of minorityreligion, there are some categories about legitimacy and heresy, and that there is more social sanction to the institutional movement.
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