Local Development and Rise of New Folk-Culture in Yaeyama

全球化一方面是乡村共同体瓦解的主要因素，另一方面又是新共同体生成的关键因素。本研究的目的是利用在八户间和石垣北方的几次实地调查中收集的数据来讨论这些现象。八户间，自20世纪70年代以来，由于渔业的衰退和高等教育的增加，出现了显着的人口减少。然而，移民在石垣岛组织了一个新的HATOMA社区。他们不仅积极参加在其家乡岛上举行的年度节日，而且在政治上和感情上支持其家乡岛民，尽管他们在经济上与本岛无关。鸠山社会不是在鸠山，而是在石垣，所以从鸠山到石垣，社区生活一直在继续，从未中断。除此之外，从日本各地来的新移民，不间断地，很快就来到了鸠山。在石垣北方，宫古和冲绳的定居者离开后，来自日本各地的新冲绳梦想家们在怀旧和真实的以人为本的生活方式的思想和意识形态的刺激下，来到这里定居新的生活。对他们来说，人口减少和大量的老年人是可取的，因为缓慢和自然为基础的生活.

Globalization is ,on the one hand, a main factor of the collapse of village community, on the other hand a key factor of the creation of new community. The purpose of the study is to discuss these phenomena using the data collected in several field survey in HATOMA and NORTHERN ISHIGAKI.HATOMA, since 1970's, because of decline of fihery and increase of higher education there had been remarkable depopulalization. Immigrants, however, have organized a new HATOMA community in ISHIGAKIJIMA. They have not only participated actively annual festivals held in their home island, but also politically and emotionally supported their home islanders although they had no economic concern to the Island. HATOMA society is not in HATOMA ,but in ISHIGAKI, so the community life had continued ,never interrupted, from HATOMA to ISHIGAKI. Besides that, in HATOMA, newcomers from all parts of Japan, without interruption, had come to live shortly. So the numbers of households keep constantly same (almost 30).In NORTHERN ISHIGAKI, after settlers from MIYAKO and OKINAWA left, new Okinawa-dreamers from all parts of Japan came to settle new life, stimulated by the idea and the ideology of nostalgia and authenticity of real human-based way of life. For them, depopulalizaion and large number of aged people is desirable because of slow and natural- based life.