「ラック・ムアン」派の霊媒集団 : 北タイ・チェンマイの精霊憑依
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It seems to be increasingly significant to reconsider locality in the ongoing global world, and the study of how local processes define and determine sociality can be regarded as one of the most important themes of the social sciences. A group of spirit mediums in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, is keeping its own memory of relevance to a renaissance of the Inthakhin festival in Wat Chedi Luang and a series of rituals associated with it. "Inthakhin" means the pillar of the god Indra and is regarded as the same as "Lak Muang", which can be widely observed in Indochina. According to local myth, worship to the pillar has helped the city and its people from crisis. A municipally official festival is held annually to commemorate this, with members of the group and daily worship by the mediums playing an integral part of the activities. The festival features flower sacrifices in flower dishes to the city pillar. A unique beauty emerges through these sacrificial acts, as absolute local value is created by locality's original way of doing practices well embedded in everyday life. As in the festival, the group's other specific rituals include the use of flower dishes and the making of flower sacrifices. Moreover, the value created by the series of Inthakhin related rituals is intensified by means of the "yQk khru" ritual. This ritual is a type of dance party held by mediums from approximately, December until Buddhist lent, the end of July. Hundreds of mediums dance in a possessed state making offering to the host medium's teaching spirit. This is very important as the local value created by flower sacrifices in the series of Inthakhin related rituals penetrates a wide area, including the Chiang Mai city area and its suburbs, such as the Lamphun province, and the neighboring districts of the city to the north. It seems that the group depends upon traditional rituals in rural settings, despite there being ethnographical evidence that urban settings are equally important today. Mediumship can be considered a group strategy successful in maintaining local power in the era of the globalization. . Generally speaking, a local ritual can be rediscovered and practiced in a marginalized society in the ongoing world as a social apparatus for local decision-making by a locality. It may also be possible to propitiate a rediscovered locality in the process, such that a society be reorganized, becoming universal as a locality. In this way, the spirit mediumship of the "Lak 1Vluang " group in Northern Thailand is a prime example of popular culture in action.
- 2002-12-25
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