1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Sociological Research on Symbols of the Integration of Rural Community

Research Project

Project/Area Number	60450025
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI SABURO College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Associate Professor, 教養部, 助教授 (80033736)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TSUBOUCHI YOSHIHIRO The Center for Southeast Asian Studies Professor, 東南アジア研究センター, 教授 (00027583)
Project Period (FY)	1985 – 1986
Keywords	Shinto Shrines / Integration Of Rural Community / 北海道開拓と神社
Research Abstract	Having made a quantitative analysis of approximately 3500 shinto shrines(jinja) in Hokkaido and field researches on all shrines in Makubetucho, we could find that the ratio of small shrines,most of which were called "Buraku Jinja" or "Mugan jinja" ,is higher in Hokkaido than in any other prefecture. We came to the conclusion that such small shrines had been having the function of social integration of rural community from the early period of the development of Hokkaido.

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