In this article, I would like to present the process by which two housewives with Okinawan descent became Okinawan shamans （yuta） by practicing magical activities of salvation and the ancestor cult. We can say that this is an re-culturalization process based on a specific system of cultural possession―the umbanda― and the Okinawan shamanism, which makes them acquire a new identity. In other words, we can perceive it as a creative process of re-adaptation in which they become ‶Okinawan shamans of Brazil" from the time when, by operating their culture of reference, they learn the language of possession that their culture presents, its symbols and its techniques, creating a cultural and a subjective and individual life environment. Despite these two women being Okinawan descendants, the process of becoming an ethnic shaman varies according to the situation of the period in which each of them lives and thus, in both cases, it is based in different cultural systems of possession as the culture of reference.
内容記述
論文
雑誌名
年報 非文字資料研究
号
8
ページ
31 - 52
発行年
2012-03-20
ISSN
1883-9169
書誌レコードID
AA12407237
著者版フラグ
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その他の言語のタイトル
02 Becoming the Okinawan Ethnic Shaman in Brazil -Shamanization as the Subjective and Creative Process of Re-Culturalization-
SE TORNANDO UMA XAMÃ ÉTNICA OKINAWANA NO BRASIL －A Xamanização como um processo subjetivo e criativo de re-culturalização－
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