2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Anthropological study on gift - giving and hospitality : what makes hijras of India deviants or the sacred ?
Project/Area Number |
24520916
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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Research Institution | Gunma Prefectural Women's University |
Principal Investigator |
Kunihiro Akiko 群馬県立女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20434392)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 贈与 / 歓待 / 宗教 / ジェンダー |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This is an Anthropological study on gift - giving and hospitality through the fieldwork with Hijras of India. Hijras are those who has been represented as sexual deviants or the ‘Third gender’ of non - western society in academic literatures. In this study, however, hijras are representatives of world renouncers of Indian society who have no obligations to perpetuate their family lines through marriage, moreover, who have the right to receive gifts from laypeople. Since hijras, particularly those living in Gujarat state, are allowed to present themselves as devotees of a Hindu Goddess in specific situations, laypeople have to accept hijras'presence and offer their hospitality to them through gift - giving with respect, which is called dana.
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Free Research Field |
文化人類学
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