in anger in 2 years of fieldwork.) • Special preserves 2 • Exaggerated reputation for danger • Association with death and misfortune • Detachment from family system While writing my thesis, I came across the work of Namihira Emiko. Her Japanese-language book Kegare came out in 1985. • Though Namihira originally wrote in English • "Hare, Ke and Kegare: The Structure of Japanese Folk Belief." Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1977 • "Pollution in the Folk Belief System." In Current Anthropology, Vol.28, No.4, S65-74, 1987. • The Red & the Black 黒不浄・死 Black kegare/fujo: Associated with death Red kegare/fujo: Associated with blood (esp. childbirth and menstruation, hence also 赤不浄・血、特に出産・月経の血→女 associated with women) Who uses these words? 晴れ着, * Hare commonly used to mean ‘auspicious.’ Eg ‘good weather’, also hare-gi, clothes for celebratory occasions ケ * Ke Never heard it. Only scholars? But maybe that’s not too surprising, as it’s a 「その他」、特殊じゃないカテゴリー residual category, signifying the absence of the sacred. 穢れ * Kegare – Rare. Sometimes used by schoolkids, like “cooties” (US), “the lurgy” 汚れ, (UK). Sometimes also written which is usually read yogore and simply means dirt. 穢 穢れ 穢 穢多, (Note that the kega in kegare is the same character as the e in eta one of the ancient words used to discriminate against what are now sometimes called 被差別部落民） Burakumin Namihira’s influences: Japanese folklorists like Sakurai Tokutaro and Harada Toshiaki… 柳田国男. and behind them, the figure of Yanagida Kunio There are also some non-Japanese influences: Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of メアリ・ダグラス、９５年 Pollution and Taboo, 1966 Emile Durkheim father of sociology (1858-1917)
in anger in 2 years of fieldwork.) • Special preserves 2 • Exaggerated reputation for danger • Association with death and misfortune • Detachment from family system While writing my thesis, I came across the work of Namihira Emiko. Her Japanese-language book Kegare came out in 1985. • Though Namihira originally wrote in English • "Hare, Ke and Kegare: The Structure of Japanese Folk Belief." Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1977 • "Pollution in the Folk Belief System." In Current Anthropology, Vol.28, No.4, S65-74, 1987. • The Red & the Black Black kegare/fujo: Associated with death 黒不浄・死 Red kegare/fujo: Associated with blood (esp. childbirth and menstruation, hence also associated with women) 赤不浄・血、特に出産・月経の血→女 Who uses these words? * Hare commonly used to mean ‘auspicious.’ Eg ‘good weather’, also hare-gi, 晴れ着, clothes for celebratory occasions * Ke ケ Never heard it. Only scholars? But maybe that’s not too surprising, as it’s a residual category, signifying the absence of the sacred. 「その他」、特殊じゃないカテゴリー * Kegare 穢れ – Rare. Sometimes used by schoolkids, like “cooties” (US), “the lurgy” (UK). Sometimes also written 汚れ, which is usually read yogore and simply means dirt. (Note that the kega 穢 in kegare 穢れ is the same character as the e 穢 in eta 穢多, one of the ancient words used to discriminate against what are now sometimes called Burakumin 被差別部落民） Namihira’s influences: Japanese folklorists like Sakurai Tokutaro and Harada Toshiaki… and behind them, the figure of Yanagida Kunio 柳田国男. There are also some non-Japanese influences: Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, 1966 メアリ・ダグラス、９５年 Emile Durkheim father of sociology (1858-1917)
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