Migration and fiesta : a case study of a village in Oaxaca, Mexico

調査地となったメキシコ，オアハカ州の農村では米国への移民が多く観察される。その目的は生活費や子供の学費，家や土地の購入，雑貨店の開店，フィエスタと呼ばれるカトリックの人生儀礼に伴う宴会開催の資金を「家族のために」獲得することと語られる。多くの費用を要するにもかかわらずフィエスタを開催するのは，従来の研究で指摘されてきた社会的，政治的機能やコンパドラスゴ関係の構築，個人的な宗教的動機だけでなく，自身の持つ人間関係のしがらみも重要となる。A lot of people from the village of Oaxaca, Mexico migrate to the U.S. In my field research, they say that they migrate to earn the money \u27for the sake of their families, namely saving for their living expenses and their children\u27s school expenses, buying a house or land, opening a store, and holding a \u27fiesta\u27, the party which is held after Catholic rites. While former research has indicated that the reasons why they hold \u27fiesta\u27 in spite of its many costs are because of its social and political functions, its construction of \u27compadrazgo\u27 relationships, a form of fictive kinship, and religious motivations, I indicate that the ties of personal relationships are also important for their commitment to holding fiestas.特集 ラテンアメリカからアメリカ合衆国への移民とエスニシティ(Special issue: Migrants from Latin America to the USA and ethnicity)論説(Article