著者

古川 まゆみ

出版者

京都文教大学

雑誌

人間学部研究報告

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.143-165, 2007

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This paper deals with Swedish Christmas. In Sweden Christmas is one of the most important annual ceremonies and Swedes spend a lot of time, energy and money on it. In the beginning of the 1990s, just when I started a cultural-anthropological fieldwork in the province of Dalarna, I had a chance of celebrating it with a family (my acquaintance) who was living in a small village on the outskirts of Leksand city. The celebration there was so impressive that an idea crossed my mind. That is making questionnaires on Christmas and distributing them to the houses of my research village. "Christmas" sounds a bright topic for me (a foreign anthropologist) to develop communication with people. The questionnaire, based on the experience at my acquaintace's, consists of 8 subjects. They are ornaments, meals, preparations, where and with whom to celebrate, Swedish Santa Claus (jultomten), presents, the Bible /church/clothes, and any comments on and memories of Christmas. In this paper I have introduced the details of the above-mentioned 8 subjects(the questionnaire in Japanese), the explanations on and the backgrounds of them, and an original questionnaire in Swedish. In the next paper I will publish answers and make some comments on them.