Anthropological Study on the Civil Formation and Revitalization Seen in the Invention of Festival and Social Participation

鉴于“Yosakoi-Matsuri”作为一种新的地方节日形式在日本越来越受欢迎和成功，本研究以高知县、札幌、名古屋、佐世保和东京为例，研究了它对参与居民公民意识增长和当地社区振兴过程的社会影响。特别注重在传统地方社会中被边缘化的非正式部门的充分参与，特别是作为自我表达的舞蹈家或音乐家、团队建设的积极成员、地方活动的组织工作人员或协调员，并根据恢复活力的共同领域审查他们改变了的自我意识和自力更生的行为。

Given the increasing popularity and successfulness of 'Yosakoi-Matsuri' as a new style of local festival in Japan, the present research examined its social impacts on the growth of civil consciousness among participant residents and the process of revitalization of local communities, based on the ethnographical approaches to the cases in Kochi, Sapporo, Nagoya, Sasebo and Tokyo for examples. Special focus is on the developed participation among informal sectors which has been marginalized in conventional local societies, especially as a self-expressive dancer or musician, active member in team-building, organizing staff or coordinator in local activities, and their transformed self-consciousness and self-reliant behavior is examined in relation with the revitalized common spheres.