Building Up Local Communities－Urban Folklore Based on Biographical Description

Abstract

  The symposium we organized has its roots in the “Magic Seminar,” which was organized twenty years ago and seeks to analyze magic in everyday life. After two decades, the two eminent leaders of the seminar, Prof. Seki and Prof. Abe, recently published works coincidently on local communities. They defend the idea that human relations build up local communities and that these communities make human subjects.