Scooping, raking, beckoning luck: Luck, agency and the interdependence of people and things in Japan
Scooping, raking, beckoning luck: Luck, agency and the interdependence of people and things in Japan
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9655.2003.00166.x
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Daniels, IM
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作者：
Daniels, IM
本文关注的是日本商品的流通和消费，这些商品带有一种非正式的、国内形式的灵性，被翻译为“运气”。Tambiah认为，泰国佛教护身符中客观化的精神力量的传播反映了“不同的权力分配”和“社会控制”，这是一个等级有序的俗人社会所赋予的。我对日本的案例研究表明，宗教形式的商品化使精神的传播更加民主。吉祥符既不神圣也不世俗；它们挑战了物体的美学价值和实用性之间的鸿沟。它们是人类和非人类代理的扩展网络的一部分，但通过它们的各种轨迹，它们也保持着植根于其物质属性的独立代理。
This article focuses on the circulation and consumption of Japanese commodities invested with an informal, domestic form of spirituality, translated as 'luck'. Tambiah has argued that the dissemination of spiritual power objectified in Thai Buddhist amulets reflects the 'differential power distribution' and 'social control' vested in an hierarchically ordered lay society. My Japanese case study suggests that commodification of religious forms enables a more democratic diffusion of spirituality. Good luck charms are neither sacred nor secular; they challenge the supposed divide between the aesthetic value and utility of objects. They are part of extended networks of human and non-human agents, but through their various trajectories they also retain in independent agency rooted in their material properties.