Researching Place, Emplacing the Researcher: Reflections on the Making of a Documentary on a Pilgrimage Confraternity

This essay reflects on the roles of the researcher, gender, place, and nostalgia in the making of an ethnographic documentary film on a contemporary pilgrimage confraternity. Every year the group visits Ōyama, a sacred mountain in central Kanagawa Prefecture, on the occasion of the mountain-opening...

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Main Author: Ambros, Barbara 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute [2009]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 167-197
Further subjects:B Mountains
B Women
B Shrine Shinto
B Deities
B Religious Studies
B Nostalgia
B Pilgrimages
B Priests
B Religious rituals
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