2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An anthropological study of Practices of Folk Religion and Consumption Culture in the Philippines.
| Project/Area Number |
23521002
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Chukyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWADA Makito 中京大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (30260110)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | フィリピン / 民衆キリスト教 / 消費 / 聖具 / 文化人類学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In each aspect of production, distribution and consumption, the sacred materials provide a system that premise the acceptance of replica or fakes through mass production instead of evaluating rare authenticity. Main stage of mass consumption is the performance and figuration in town festivity, in which numerous replicas are consumed religiously in accordance with various contexts of each possessor. Further, this system is underpinned by textualisation of religious knowledge on miracle stories. As well as religious statues are decollated in favor of each possessor, religious knowledge are customized and personalized in miracles stories, and this is the way replica and fakes are turned to be authentic.
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