Wrapped gifts - Contents

Wrapped gifts - Title Page

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures 256
• Acknowledgements
• PREFACE
• 1. The Thesis
• 2. Fieldwork
• 2.a Methodological constraints
• 3. Outline of the Thesis
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• 2. Japanese gift exchange
• 2.a Types and classification of gifts
• 2.b The value of a gift and repayability
• 2.c Redundancy
• 3.a The concept of wrapping: origata and tsutsumi
• 3.b Ritual wrapping
• 3.c Pragmatic and symbolic wrapping
• 3.d Auspicious, inauspicious and white wrapping
• 4. The fieldwork location: Kamikatsu and rural gifts
• 4.a Kamikatsu as a mountain furusato (home village)
• 4.b The ideal communist regime
• 4.c Some information on the history and population of Kamikatsu
• 4.d Depopulation problems and the birth of the town
• 4.e Ecology, agriculture and tourism
• 5. Understanding contemporary Japan: Anthropological representations and the problem of gift exchange
• 6. Conclusions
• Chapter 2
• Problems and perspectives in the analysis of gift exchange and gift-wrapping
• 1. Gifts and commodities
• 2. Giri and the problems of obligation in Japan
• Chapter 3
• Gift exchange as the source of rural distinctiveness
• 1. Gifts of thanks, gifts of help, gifts of participation, small humble gifts
• 2. Households, village Shrine and town buildings: the main arenas for gift exchange
• 2.a Gifts and some statistics on the annual household gift economy
• Details of gift giving in 5 Details of gift giving in 5
• Non-traditional households with children traditional households with children
• Average type (origin or donor) Average type
• 2.b Return gifts
• 2.c The classification of reciprocity
• 2.d Considerations on wrapping
• 3. Case study: mochinage (throwing cakes)
• 4.Conclusions
• Chapter 4
• Ways of knowing about auspiciousness and inauspiciousness
• 1. Inauspiciousness and pollution
• 1.a Pollution, poison and funeral gifts
• 2. Auspicious, inauspicious: definitions and gifts
• 2.a Sources of auspiciousness: medetai
• 2.b Sources of inauspiciousness: Imikotoba, yakudoshi, katagae,and other perceptions of inauspiciousness
• 2.c Belief in auspiciousness and inauspiciousness
• 3. Wrapping as an auspicious force
• 3.a Throwing and wrapping in funerary rituals
• 3.b Unborn children
• 3.c Pregnancy and the child as an auspicious force
• 3.d Gifts to the child: prestations and gender achievement in childhood
• 4. Conclusions
• Chapter 5
• Actions of wrapping and unwrapping. The ritual structure of giving auspicious gifts
• 1. Matsuri
• 2. Strength, age, gender and ritual roles
• 3. Aki matsuri. Ritual structures and participation: wrapping and unwrapping time, gifts and events
• 3.a Preparing the festivals: unwrapping the Shrine
• 3.b Unwrapping the layers of the Shrine
• 3.c Unwrapping and wrapping the deity: the power of gifts in attracting the deity into social life
• 3.d Wrapping the deity into the mikoshi
• 3.e The mikoshi returns: inverting the process - unwrapping the deity out of the mikoshi - wrapping up the Shrine
• 4. Conclusions. ‘Untouched’ package
• 1. Groups and day to day co-operation: thanks gifts
• 1.a Uchi and gift giving patterns
• 2. Work and kinship ties: notions of tradition and obligation
• 3. Wrapping commodities and the morality of debt
• 4.a Valentine giri and hontou gifts
• <6. Conclusions
• Chapter seven
• 1. Matchiotsukuru and the rural dream. The contextual character of household-town relations
• 1.a The production of the town’s image. Appropriation of the environment
• 2. Appropriation of production
• 2.a Appropriation of festivals and the making of tradition
• 3. Conflicts in making the town. Gifts and conflict resolution
• 3.a Obligation and ambiguous commodities
• 3.b Case study: Elders’ day, gifts to the community and the concept of respect and compensation