Abstract
A huge amount of studies about agricultural and fishing villages on Okinawa islands have been done in the area of Japanese cultural anthropology and folklore. However the main subjects of these studies were the religious festivals and the kinship in relation to this topic. Therefore there were not many studies, which had approached a structure of a village as a village itself, such as in the perspective of cooperative working group or administrative system. In this study we will analyze a structure of village and “logic of shima” through an acceptance of outsider which is Kubura hamlet in this case. As Kubura hamlet was a branch village of Itoman fishermen, it had been newly formed as a hamlet different from other hamlets in the origin. We will study a structure of village and “shima” in the case of Kubura hamlet, Yonaguni island in Okinawa.
The result is as follows. Kubura hamlet had been embedded into Yonaguni Island through sharing cooperative work and “Machiri” festival in Yonaguni Island. However, nowadays Kubura forms a village as an organization of public hall, which is rot a cooperative group but holds a festival. Therefore Kubura village is a festival organization as an internal structure of village. However, Kubura village does not consist in a unit of administrative system, since a village headman does not have roles to convey administrative information to villagers.
