Bulletin of the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Online ISSN : 2435-0451
Print ISSN : 0918-3159
Device to Maintain Sharing
Kazuyuki TANIMOTO
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2009 Volume 18 Pages 001-008

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The bladder feast is one of the most important rituals of the Eskimo society around the Bering Strait. This feast is the ritual of “ the spirit forwarding ” which sends the spirit of the marine mammal to heaven hoping the second coming of the marine mammal. At the same time this ritual contain the program of the device to maintain morality where is indispensable for survival in such a hard environment in arctic sharing between other people not a hunter monopolizing the game.

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