The Annual Review of Sociology
Online ISSN : 1884-0086
Print ISSN : 0919-4363
ISSN-L : 0919-4363
Gods and the Dead
An Archeology of Urban Space
Mikio Wakabayashi
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1990 Volume 1990 Issue 3 Pages 59-70

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In many societies, especially in traditional societies, relations among god(s), the dead and living people construct essential parts of social realities. In some cases, such relations are not only religious but also political. Gods and the dead are political media which bring normative effects on society.
In this paper, I will analyse a spatial structure of a Japanese local city (totoumifuchu-mitsuke in Shizuoka prefecture) of the Ancient and the Medieval Period, and attempt to reconstruct religious and political relations among gods, the dead and living people in the city.
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