The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 9780824864996

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic ten

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Ethnological and Historical Perspectives
2. Matsuri as Communal Ritual
3. Territorial and Collective Identities
4. Furukawa Matsuri: Performance
5. Furukawa Matsuri: Mobilization
6. Origins and Early Development
7. Authority, Resistance, and Ritualization
8. From Symbolism to Instrumentality
9. Commodification
10. Ritual, Change, and Agency
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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