Recently added articles from Asian Folklore Studies:
Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2007; ... WE ARE pleased to present this special double issue of Asian Folklore Studies in honor of Professor Peter Knecht, who has stepped down as the journals editor after a highly successful tenure of twenty-six years. Peter's departure is lamentable for many of us as readers, contributors, and ...
Rice: representations and reality.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... EVEN if most Japanese today may no longer eat rice at every meal, rice is still not only their staple food (shushoku [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), it is also the food par excellence. Unless they have eaten a bowl of rice, Japanese may not feel they have eaten to satisfaction even ...
Female shamans in eastern Japan during the Edo Period.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THANKS largely to the efforts of many anthropologists and folklorists, including of course Peter Knecht, the longtime editor of this journal, the ghostly outlines of contemporary Japanese shamanism have begun to be transmitted to a non-Japanese readership. A rough picture had already ...
The true history of Shido temple.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... SHIDOJI [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], a Shingon temple dedicated to Eleven-Headed Kannon [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]--[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], faces Shido Bay about fifteen kilometers east of Takamatsu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], at the northeast corner of Shikoku ....
The making of tojin: construction of the other in early modern Japan.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THIS article examines the kinds of worldviews and images of foreign Others the nonelite people of premodern Japan constructed, and how folk belief and knowledge contributed to this construction. (1) Recent scholarship on Japanese history has shown how open Japan was under the Tokugawa ...
Onmyoji: sex, pathos, and Grotesquery in Yumemakura Baku's oni.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... IN YUMEMAKURA Baku's (1951-) series Onmyoji, Abe no Seimei (921?-1005?), a legendary onmyoji, or a practitioner of Onmyodo (the way of yin-yang) known for his skills of divination, magic, and sorcery, teams up with the aristocrat Minamoto no Hiromasa [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ...
The Kwallye samga of Korea: a failed attempt at Christian accommodation to Confucian culture.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... RECENTLY an important document has come to light that illustrates the extent to which the first generation of Protestant Christians in Korea were attempting to accommodate their Christian beliefs to the Confucian values in which they had been raised. This document, entitled Kwallye samga ...
The man-hunting tiger: from "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" in Chinese traditions.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE STORY about Wu Song [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and his battle with a man-eating tiger has been popular in China since the Yuan Period (1279-1368). * The tiger tale belongs to a longer cycle of events, the Wu Song saga about one of the "good fellows," haohan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE ...
Notes on Blood Revenge among the Reindeer Evenki of Manchuria (Northeast China).(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... MOST of the approximately two hundred Reindeer Evenki of northeastern China were relocated in 2003 from the forests that were their homeland to the periphery of Genhe, a city about two hundred and fifty kilometers to the south. * Only a small group of about thirty persons resisted this ...
Village deities of Tamil Nadu in myths and legends: the Narrated Experience.(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE HISTORY of Hinduism in India has been dominated by such powerful pan-Indian gods as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, who figure in religious texts in Sanskrit and are controlled and mediated by Brahmins, the religious elite of the society. * Scholarly understanding of Hinduism as a ...
Ordinary religion, extraordinary anthropology: the contributions of Peter Knecht.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOR many years, Peter Knecht diligently worked in Nagoya, Japan, as a professor of anthropology for Nanzan University, as the editor of Asian Folklore Studies, and as a researcher for the Nanzan Anthropological Institute, where he served as director from ...
How ancient is lore? Southeast Asia speaks up.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Essay)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE IDEA that the sky is made out of stone appears in folk and religious traditions all around our planet. I have discussed this idea, and briefly proposed that another idea--the' stone falling from sky" motif--offers a key to understanding the wide distribution of the "sky of stone" ...
A striking tale of weaving taboos and divine retribution: a reinterpretation of the Asauchiyama myth in Harima Fudoki.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Essay)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE AIM of this essay is to review previous scholarship on the Asauchiyama [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] myth in the document known as Harima no Kuni Fudoki [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (hereafter Harima Fudoki), and to suggest an entirely new interpretation of its meaning. First, I ...
The Namuyi: linguistic and cultural features.(RESEARCH MATERIAL)(Report)
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE Namuyi (1) (in English also Namyi; in Namuyi--na53 mzi53, (2) in Chinese--Namuyi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) are a little-studied group of people who reside in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in the ...
Anderson, Wanni W., compiler. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... ANDERSON, WANNI W., compiler. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2005. x + 294 pages. Maps, illustrations, index. Hardcover, US$39.95; ISBN 1-889963-74-7. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives ...
Korom, Frank J. Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... KOROM, FRANK J. Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an IndoCaribbean Diaspora. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ix + 305 pages. Illustrations, table, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth US$65.00/42,50 [euro]; ISBN 0-8122-3683-1; paper US$24.95/16.50 [euro]; ISBN ...
Moerman, D. Max. Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... MOERMAN, D. MAX. Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs 235. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xviii + 297 pages. Maps, illustrations, references, character list, index. Cloth ...
Li Fuqing [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [Boris Riftin]. Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [Kuan-kung legends and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms].(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... LI FUQING [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [BORIS RIFTIN]. Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [Kuan-kung legends and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms]. Taipei: Han Chung Book Co., Ltd, 1997, xii + 366 pages. Color plates, illustrations. Paper NT$320; ISBN ...
Zhao, Xiaohuan. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... ZHAO, XIAOHUAN. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. xii + 401 pages. tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Hardcover, US$129.95; ISBN 0-7734-6097-7. This study is the revised version of its author's PhD ...
Ter Haar, Barend J. Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2007; ... TER HAAR, BAREND J. Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History. Sinica Leidensia 71. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. x + 382 pages. Tables, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Hardcover 115.00 [euro]; US$155.00; ISBN 90-0414-844-2. The title ...