「場所」とは，ただ，人の活動が行われる空の容器ではない。何もない部屋が，人の行動によって教室になったり寝室になったりするように，人によって何らかの意味が付加されることで，「空間」は「場所」となる。しかもその「場所」は，ただ社会的な意味が込められた「空間」というだけでない。日本語の「場」という概念は，「space」や「place」の持つ，より深い作用を表現する。すなわち「場」とは，社会的な背景，行動を規定する規範，雰囲気，個人の感情などを含めた，人間の行動に影響を与える人を取り巻く何かであり，このように概念化されたとき，「場所」は，私たちができることを制限し，指示し，その過程で私たち自身を形成する空間であることが分かる。
　日本の暗黒舞踏や世界中の伝統音楽，伝統舞踊への参与型の民族誌を通し，場所と人間のエージェンシーがいかに共に立ち現れるのかに迫る，気鋭の人類学者による挑戦。

Caitlin Coker
Associate Professor at Hokkaido University’s School of Humanities and Human Science. Coker completed a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Kyoto University in 2017. Her research focuses on physical experience and performance, specifically butoh and pole dancing, as topics and practice-based methods to develop anthropological theory and thought.

Gaku Kajimaru （梶丸岳）
Assistant Professor of Kyoto University. Kajimaru completed a PhD in Anthropology. His research interest is reciprocal singing of Buyi (China), Lao (Laos) and Japan, and the social aspect of Japanese folk song. He was awarded the 13th Tokugawa Munemasa Award and the 31st Tanabe Hisao Prize.

Shuji Kamimoto （神本秀爾）
Associate Professor of Kurume University. Kamimoto’s research interest is in spirituality and locality in Jamaica and Japan. He also produces songs for regional
promotion.

Eriko Kawanishi （河西瑛里子）
Lecturer at Professional Institute of International Fashion. Kawanishi was awarded a PhD at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University. She is an anthropologist of the Goddess movement, contemporary Paganism, alternative spirituality, sacred landscapes and spiritual tourism, who conducted fieldwork mainly in Glastonbury, UK.

Masaharu Kawano （河野正治）
Associate Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University. Kawano specializes in Cultural Anthropology and completed a PhD in International Political Economy. His research interest is in traditional authority and ritual practice in Pohnpei, Micronesia. He was awarded the 19th Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies Prize in 2020.

Kazuhiro Kazama （風間計博）
Professor of Kyoto University. Kazama is an anthropologist who conducted long-term fieldwork on Tabiteuea Atoll in Kiribati and shorter research among the Gilbertese speakers in Fiji. His research interests include cross-cultural encounters, and an ethnographic approach to the study of historical memory and emotions in Oceania.

Ulara Tamura （田村うらら）
Associate Professor at Kanazawa University. Tamura is an anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork mainly in Turkey from 2002. Her research interest includes how local people deal with the transformation of traditions under globalization. She received her PhD at Kyoto University in 2011, with a dissertation titled “The Life-world of Local Craft Articulated with the Global Market Economy: The Preservation and Transformation of Carpet Production in Southwest Turkey” which was published in Japan in 2013.

Fumi Watanabe （渡辺文）
Assistant Professor of Doshisha University. She completed a PhD in Anthropology at Kyoto University. Her research interest is in art(s) and material cultures in Oceania. She was awarded the 14th Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies Prize in 2014 for research published on Red Wave art in Fiji.

Tatsuya Yamamoto （山本達也）
Associate Professor of Shizuoka University. His research interest is in consumption and production of popular music by Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. He was awarded the 3rd Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award (Toryu-sho (Budding Scholar) Category) in 2013 for research related to the essay in the present volume.