北米乾燥地域に於ける原始農耕生活
特にホピ族の場合
1953 年 5 巻 1 号 p. 25-41,81
詳細
1953 年 5 巻 1 号 p. 25-41,81
The Hopi is the primitive farmer who live on the southern border of Colorado Plateau. Their living type adapts to the severe physical environment with its peculiar form. As for the technological part, the cultivation based on the flood-water farming and sanddune agriculture is carried out by their agricultural calender. And they have the complicated social organization composed of the matorilocal family, the maternal clan and the phratry, which restrict the process of the cultivation and the landownership. The Hopi has such a organized cultivation. Their society and culture are based on the material foundation, which is integrated ceremonially through the ceremonial function of the clan. These ceremonies are for rain making essencially which they offer a fervent prayer. So this can be called the agricultural ceremonies. Agricultural basis of the Hopi which is integrated by the ceremonies adapts to the physical environment through the agriculture. Shortly their culture adapts to the physical environment through the special patterned agriculture, and they have the balance between their culture and nature. The regionality is, thus, represented in the pattern of the adaptation and the conditions of the balance.
