社会と秩序性
法人類学の視点より
1986 年 1986 巻 38 号 p. 154-160,217
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1986 年 1986 巻 38 号 p. 154-160,217
This article will undertake a case analysis of internal order in traditional Ainu culture by using as a fundamental framework the following two points:
(1) Society as a system constituted dy meaning; and
(2) External and internal aspects of that system may be simultaneously thematicized.
The following points become clear upon focusing the analysis on the symbols of externality, the "ikor" (treasures) and the "inau" (the offering-stick for deities). Those symbols possess ambiguous functions in that they both activate and disrupt a system; therefore, the systems which they control have essential meaning to society's internal order. Their free circulation is prohibited, and only when internal order has been disturbed will they operate to restore it. Therefore, they also serve as a principal means of conflict resolution.
