Material studies on nation ritualization of the rite of passage and annual event

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320195
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: National Museum of Japanese History
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA Shinya 国立歴史民俗博物館, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (90311133)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TSUNEMITSU Toru 国立歴史民俗博物館, 名誉教授 (40321541) ; MATSUO Koichi 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 教授 (50286671) ; KOIKE Junichi 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 准教授 (60241452) ; AOKI Takahiro 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 准教授 (70353373) ; HARAYAMA Kosuke 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 准教授 (50413894)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 国民国家 / 近代化 / 生活改善運動 / 商品化 / 法制 / 医療 / 社会変動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study showed that the folk rituals like the rite of passage and annual event transform in the process of modernization, and these are not influenced by the single factor, but composed from multiple factors like political, medical, social and economic ones. The transformation of the folk rituals basically occurs in the process of the formation of the nation states, and standardization of the ritual is happened. At the time, by contrasting with the standard ritual, the difference of regional folk is standing out. By estimation for the ritual folk, sometimes the difference is strengthened and other times the difference is weakened.

Free Research Field

文化人類学・民俗学