"The Sacred Accumulation"

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Other Title
  • 「聖なる堆積」
  • Correlations of Things in the Case of Xianghua Sect in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China
  • 中国広東省梅州市の香花派におけるモノとモノの連関

Abstract

<p>The aim of this study is to investigate how things obtain agency through their interactions with other things. Recent research has shown that agency of things arose from their relationships with human. However, from the perspective of material religion theory, this paper examines how the network of things, such as the material setting surrounding the deity statues, feng shui, offerings, paper money, incense, other deity statues etc. makes the certain deity statue acquire its agency, and through which the statue becomes "lingyan" in Chinese. These ethnographic observations lead us to consider the possibility of the correlations among things themselves generating agency before any human interaction, which is referred as "potential of things acting as agents before human" in this paper.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390581555877967360
  • DOI
    10.14890/jjcanth.88.3_452
  • ISSN
    24240516
    13490648
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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