著者

小林 康正 Yasumasa KOBAYASHI 京都文教大学人間学部・文化人類学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Cultural Anthropology

出版者

京都文教大学

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University (ISSN:18843743)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.87-113, 2008-03-25

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Seimei-gaku, also known as Seimei-Handan, (predicting a person's fortune on the basis of his surname and first name) is a popular fortune-telling method in Japan. It is traditionally believed that this method originated in ancient China and later began to be used in Japan; however, in reality, seimei-gaku was invented in modern Japan. In 1901, Sasaki Mono (1860-1902?), the inventor of Seimei-gaku, used newspapers to awaken the interest of people. This paper aims to explore the relationship between the demand for Seimei-gaku and large-scale publication of popular newspapers in the early twentieth century. Faith in Seimei-gaku was based on the magic of the printed word, and it was created by a media-saturated society. Seimei-gaku can be regarded as a superstition held by typographic man. During this period, the importance of information increased in association with the exponential growth of the market society, and the value of everyday-life experiences in traditional communities declined. Consequently, newspaper became an integral part of people's life. Seimei-gaku is considered to be a part of the information provided by newspapers. It had two prominent types that enabled it to achieve its objectives. One was reading a person's mind, and the other, predicting his future. These are the requisite skills for achieving success in an expansionary economy during the development of a market society.

著者

鑪 幹八郎 Mikihachiro TATARA 京都文教大学人間学部:京都文教大学臨床心理学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Clinical Psychology

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.59-67, 2005-03-25

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This is a part of clinical and psychological study series of Arimasa Mori, a Japanese philosopher. In this paper, author tried to focus on his thoughts of the language structure of Japanese compared to French. He found the difference of speech in relation to whom, where and how in the context of interpersonal relationship. In contrast to French, Japanese language has to be used always in the consideration of whom you are talking to. Interpersonal relationship with the object to whom you are talking has to be always considered in the talking situation. This culturally bound way of expression is called Niko-kankei, which forces to take account social and interpersonal relation in two person relation, talker and listener. Mori tries to speak independently with a listener without considering talking situation and interpersonal relation of the talker and the listener. However, it seems to terribly difficult to speak Japanese in Japan in the way of speaking French.

著者

安田 ひろみ Hiromi YASUDA 京都文教大学人間学部文化人類学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Cultural Anthropology

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.125-131, 2009-03-31

著者

橋本 和也 Kazuya HASHIMOTO 京都文教大学人間学部文化人類学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Cultural Anthropology

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.1-15, 2009-03-31

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In this paper I will review the two meanings of authenticity (namely, objective and constructive authenticity): I will propose that we need further investigation into today's tourist experiences and clarify an alternative notion of authenticity for tourists from an "existential approach". In the notion of "staged authenticity", MacCanell supposed "objective authenticity," which involves a museum-linked usage of the authenticity of the originals that are also the toured objects to be perceived by tourists. By "constructive authenticity" is meant the result of social construction. Therefore things appear authentic not because they are inherently authentic, but because they are constructed. This notion is thus relative, negotiable, contextually determined, and even ideological. It can be the projection of one's dreams, stereotyped images, and expectations imposed on toured objects. As E. Cohen said, "Authenticity is an eminently modern value" [Cohen 1988:374]. Its emergence is closely related to the impact of modernity upon the unity of social existence. And "Modern man is seen, from the perspective of a contemporary existential philosophical anthropology, as being in quest of authenticity." Since modern society is inauthentic, the alienated modern tourist in quest of authenticity looks elsewhere for the pristine, the primitive, the natural life which is as yet untouched by modernity. He hopes to find it in other times and other places, since it is absent from his own world [Cohen 1988:374]. From the existential point of view, we can clarify the meaning of the experiences for the tourists. The tourists themselves think they have gained authentic experiences. This can, however, still be judged as inauthentic, if the toured objects are in fact false, contrived, or what MacCanell calls "staged authenticity". Here we need an "existential approach" for the analysis of this kind of touristic experience of today. "The issue of whether the toured objects are authentic is irrelevant or less relevant. What tourists seek are their own authentic selves and inter-subjective authenticity" [Wang 1999:366]. Therefore the notion of sincerity becomes important. For example, marae visit (in New Zealand Maori tours), a so-called staged back-region approach, is taken by local operators in which the point of contact is made to revolve around issues of sincerity as well as authenticity. The notion of sincerity implies an interactive sharing of experience between participants within a given tourism encounter [Taylor 2001:16]. The notion of sincerity is significantly different from that of authenticity in that it occurs in the zone of contact among participating groups or individuals, rather than appearing as an internal quality of a thing, self, or Other. An existentially "authentic" encounter could be available only in an ideal traditional society. Today we cannot expect the ideal communitas which would be observed in the liminality. For us in a touristic experience it must be a kind of pseudo-communitas which can be found in the "liminoid" circumstance which Turner named instead of a liminal one. Since the existential approach can explain a wider spectrum of tourist phenomena than the conventional approach, it therefore opens up broad prospects for tourist experiences.

著者

村上 優子 Yuko MURAKAMI 京都文教大学人間学部文化人類学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Cultural Anthropology

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.119-123, 2009-03-31

著者

村上 優子 Yuko MURAKAMI 京都文教大学人間学部文化人類学科 KYOTO BUNKYO UNIVERSITY Department of Cultural Anthropology

出版者

京都文教大学

雑誌

人間学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Human Studies, Kyoto Bunkyo University (ISSN:18843743)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.119-123, 2009-03-31