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Tamaki Kitagawa
Alliance for Research on the Mediterranean and North Africa, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan

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Journal article
Published: 13 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The phenomenological meaning of place argued by Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph involves multiple disciplines, including religious studies. Based on the idea of experience of place, the study examines the structural contrast between the inner village and the outside suburbs. Focusing on the representation of the contrast of places in the festival of southern Tunisia, it also discusses the inner and the outer experience of the human existence that such contrast implies. In this regard, interviews with the local people in the village and observation of rituals and festivals were implemented. The traditional rituals designate the contrast of the human realm and the untamed nature, which has been shaped by environmental and historical factors. Their ambivalent ontological orientations toward usefulness/controllability and toward sacredness/uncontrollability are reconciled by the experience of the festival. The dynamism of the inside and the outside in the form of olives, a bride, or a palanquin enables people to realize the source of new lives and experience the essential meaning of generation. In spite of recent political and exhibitionistic tendencies, the Mahrajān represents the universal structure of festivals in which arbitrariness is periodically broken down by introducing the external sacredness into the inner human realm.

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Tamaki Kitagawa. The Experience of Place in the Annual Festival Held in an Amazigh Village in Southern Tunisia. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5479 .

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Tamaki Kitagawa. The Experience of Place in the Annual Festival Held in an Amazigh Village in Southern Tunisia. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5479.

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Tamaki Kitagawa. 2021. "The Experience of Place in the Annual Festival Held in an Amazigh Village in Southern Tunisia." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5479.

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Published: 22 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The olive tree and oil are iconic in the Mediterranean culture and religions, and producers incorporate those associations into the packaging of olive oil products they distribute regionally. This study examines the impact of religious and cultural information about olive oil on consumer behavior. A choice experiment was conducted to survey Japanese consumers’ willingness to pay for olive oil products. Results show that consumers respond with varying degrees of favor to the characteristic of “produced in pilgrimage destination,” but if cultural and religious information related to olive is provided, their willingness to pay increases 6.7 times. Measurements of cross-effects show that consumers that are more educated respond favorably to cultural and religious imagery, whereas older consumers and those with more children respond less favorably. Empirical results imply those regional religious and cultural allusions could be used to differentiate and promote olive oil products in a culturally distinct market.

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Tamaki Kitagawa; Kenichi Kashiwagi; Hiroko Isoda. Effect of Religious and Cultural Information of Olive Oil on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Japan. Sustainability 2020, 12, 810 .

AMA Style

Tamaki Kitagawa, Kenichi Kashiwagi, Hiroko Isoda. Effect of Religious and Cultural Information of Olive Oil on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Japan. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):810.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Tamaki Kitagawa; Kenichi Kashiwagi; Hiroko Isoda. 2020. "Effect of Religious and Cultural Information of Olive Oil on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Japan." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 810.