Anthropological Study of Communities through the Case of Rural Villages in Galicia, Spain: An Exploration of Solidarity Based upon Diversity

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370963
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Takenaka Hiroko 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, 准教授 (30376967)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 共同性 / 共同体 / 農村 / 祭り / ガリシア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study exams the solidarity created between insiders and outsiders of agrarian village communities in Galicia, in general very closed to outside of the community, through an ethnography of the festival “Son d’Aldea” (means “I’m from village”) and its principal organizers with a distinctive perspective from that of villagers. Based upon our anthropological research, we can consider this festival as quite opened one which consists of the relationship and collaboration between insiders and outsiders, different from that of which is just expecting an economical effect. We also can analyze that the principal organizers of the festival are the temporal habitants who construct symbolic elements representing the local identity. It can be seen new solidarity of agrarian villages made by the people without a thin relation to the locality.

Free Research Field

文化人類学