Philip Taylor, ed. Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionaryVietnam
A Narrative of Saṭvāī Affliction in Rural Maharashtra
Izumo Kagura, Iwami Kagura, and National Intersections
Living on the Sino-Indian Border
Raymond Silverman, ed., Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges
Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman, eds., This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl
Shokdung, The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet’s Peaceful Revolution. Trans. Matthew Akester
Jonathan Arnold, Sacred Music in Secular Society
Peter van der Veer, The Value of Comparison
Viv Golding and Wayne Modest, eds., Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration
S. Brent Plate, ed., Key Terms in Material Religion
Michael Bull and Jon Mitchell, eds., Ritual, Performance and the Senses
Kirin Narayan, Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Michael Youngblood, Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization
Steven J. Rosen and Kaisori Bellach, Avatar Art: Neo-Vedic Paintings Celebrating Life
Aditya Malik, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas
Brian Black and Laurie Patton, eds., Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions
Asko Parpola, The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
V. Ravi Vaithees, Religion, Caste, and Nation in South India: Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite Movement, and Tamil Nationalism 1876-1950
Erika Friedl, Folktales and Storytellers of Iran: Culture, Ethos and Identity
David Odo, The Journey of “A Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs
Holly High, Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos
Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, eds., Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer, eds., Diaspora and Identity: Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora
Anastasia Piliavsky, ed., Patronage as Politics in South Asia
Huib Schippers and Catherine Grant, Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective
Culture Paves the Way, Economics Comes to Sing the Opera
The Sinophone Roots of Javanese Nini Towong
Recreating "Traditional" Folk Epics in Contemporary China
Research, Cultural Heritage, and Ethnic Identity
“Negotiation” Between a Religious Art Form and the Secular State
Jeff Roy, Director. Mohammed to Maya
Susan Østigaard and Beathe Hofseth, Directors. Light Fly, Fly High
Tim Graf and Jakob Montrasio, Editors and Directors. Buddhism after the Tsunami: The Souls of Zen 3/11 Japan Special
Raminder Kaur and Parul Dave-Mukherji, Editors. Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World
Faye Yuan Kleeman. In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere
Regina F. Bendix, Aditya Eggert, and Arnika Peselmann, Editors. Heritage Regimes and the State
Tiantian Zheng, Editor. Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia
Elliot Oring. Just Folklore: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique
Mrinalini Chakravorty. In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Kama Maclean. A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text
Frank Heidemann and Philipp Zehmisch, editors. Manifestations of History: Time, Space, and Community in the Andaman Islands
Lakshmi Srinivas. House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
Andrew Duff. Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom
Townsend Middleton. The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Prabhavati C. Reddy. Hindu Pilgrimage: Shifting Patterns of Worldview of Shri Shailam in South India
Carola Erika Lorea. Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Jennifer A. Fraser. Gongs & Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia
Henry Spiller. Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance
R. Keller Kimbrough, Trans. with an Introduction. Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
Rebecca Suter. Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction
Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon. God Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings
Karl E. Ryavec. A Historical Atlas of Tibet
Ana Cristina O. Lopes. Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora: Cultural Re-Signification in Practice and Institutions
Darśan, Decoration, and Transnational Hindu Homes in the United States
A Miscellany of Eccentricities: Spirituality and Obsession in Hyakka kikōden
Secularization and Cosmopolitan Gurus
Shinto Ritual Practice in Miyagi Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake: The Case of the Ogatsu Hōin Kagura
Enchanting the Honeybees with Magical Love Songs: An Orang Rimba Honey-Collecting Ritual in Jambi, Sumatra
Belief in the Evil Eye and Early Childcare in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Ethnic Foods as Unprepared Materials and as Cuisines in a Culture-based Development Project in Southwest China
Cultural Adaptation, Tradition, and Identity of Diasporic Vietnamese People: A Case Study in Silicon Valley, California, USA
Review of: Kyoko Miyake, Surviving the Tsunami—My Atomic Aunt
Review of: Kombai S. Anwar, Yaadhum: A Tamil Muslim’s Journey in Search of His Roots and Identity
Review of: Deborah Gee, Slaying the Dragon; Elaine H. Kim, Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Review of: Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi, Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience in Japan
Review of: Arnd Schneider and Caterina Pasqualino, eds., Experimental Film and Anthropology
Review of: Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Review of: Lila Abu Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Review of: Chenghao An, Zu Qun She Hui Fa Zhan Yu Bian Qian: Chao Xian Zu She Hui Diao Cha Yan Jiu 族群社会发展与变迁—朝鲜族社会调查研究
Review of: Sara Shneiderman, Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India
Review of: Alexander Henn, Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity
Review of: Antje Missbach, Troubled Transit: Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia
Review of: Gaudenz Domenig, Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology
Review of: Michelle Bigenho, Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan
Review of: Phyllis Birnbaum, Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Review of: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Housewives of Japan: An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Domesticity
Review of: John Lie, ed., Multiethnic Korea? Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea
Review of: Alex McKay, Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography
Salvage and Salvation: Guest Editors’ Introduction
Puripetal Force in the Charitable Field
Buddhist Disaster Relief: Monks, Networks, and the Politics of Religion
Sevā, Hindutva, and the Politics of Post-Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction in Rural Kutch
Hard Lessons Learned: Tracking Changes in Media Presentations of Religion and Religious Aid Mobilization after the 1995 and 2011 Disasters in Japan
Playful Relief: Folk Performing Arts in Japan after the 2011 Tsunami
Mennonite Disaster Relief and the Interfaith Encounter in Aceh, Indonesia
Religion and Reconstruction in the Wake of Disaster
Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film
Review of: Debbie Lum, Seeking Asian Female
Review of: Vikram Gandhi, Kūmāré: The True Story of a False Prophet
Review of: The Sophia Hilton Foundation of Canada, Animation, Artwork, and Storytelling, The Legend of Ponnivala
Review of: Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg, eds., Gurus of Modern Yoga
Review of: Fuyubi Nakamura, Morgan Perkins, and Olivier Krischer, eds., Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Borders
Review of: Alex Norman and Carole M. Cusack, eds., Religion, Pilgrimage, and Tourism
Review of: Robert M. Carmack, Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System
Review of: Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau, eds., Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life
Review of: Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language
Review of: Wilt L. Idema, The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera Under the Revolution (1949–1956)
Review of: Zoe C. Sherinian, Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology
Review of: Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli, Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan
Review of: Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, eds. and trans., The Rigveda (3 volume set)
Review of: Albertus Bagus Laksana, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations Through Java
Review of: Mark J. Hudson, Ann-elise Lewallen, and Mark K. Watson, eds., Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives
Review of: Jonathan Stockdale, Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult
Review of: Daniel Bass, Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics
Review of: Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Review of: Peter Schwieger, The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
The Invisible and the Visible: Communicating with the Yin World
The “Kimono Wednesday” Protests: Identity Politics and How the Kimono Became More Than Japanese
The Effectiveness and Limitations of “Context”: Reflections Based on Ethnographic Research of Myth Traditions
The Impact of Christianity on Traditional Agricultural Practices and Beliefs among the Kimaragang of Sabah: A Preliminary Study
Village Production and the Self Identification of Village Communities: The Case of Fangshan District, Beijing
For Whom to Conserve Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Dislocated Agency of Folk Belief Practitioners and the Reproduction of Local Culture
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Chinese Folklore Studies: Toward Disciplinary Maturity
Chinese Folklore Since the Late 1970s: Achievements, Difficulties, and Challenges
Critical Reflections on Religion and Media in Contemporary Bali
Maurizia Boscagli, Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical Materialism
E. J. Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World’s Mythologies
Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West, The Generals of the Yang Family: Four Early Plays
C. S. Adcock, The Limits of Tolerance: Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom
Popular Perceptions of Masculinity in Rural North Indian Oral Traditions
Leisure, Work, and Constituted Everydayness: Mountain Songs of Hakka Women in Colonized Northern Taiwan (1930–1955)
Cultivating Ezo: Indigenous Innovation and Ecological Change during Japan’s Bakumatsu Era
Wild Sacredness and the Poiesis of Transactional Networks Relational Divinity and Spirit Possession in the Būta Ritual of South India
Bloody Hell! Reading Boys’ Books in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Toward a Modern Buddhist Hagiography Telling the Life of Hsing Yun in Popular Media
Between Desire and Duty: On Tibetan Identity and its Effects on Second-Generation Tibetans
Tea Practices in Mongolia: A Field of Female Power and Gendered Meanings
John Melville Bishop, In The Wilderness of a Troubled Genre
Wendy J. N. Lee, Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey
Peter van der Veer, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
Chadwick Allen, Trans-Indigeneous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
Razia Sultanova, From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia
Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease, and Shzr Ee Tan, eds., Gender in Chinese Music
Mun Young Cho, The Specter of “the People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China
Mariangela Giusti and Urmila Chakraborty, eds. Immagini, storie, parole: Dialoghi di formazione coi dipinti cantati delle donne Chitrakar del West Bengal
Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin, The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia
Noriko Aso, Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan
John K. Nelson, Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan
Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, eds., The Korean Popular Culture Reader
Kevin Bubriski, Nepal: 1975–2011
Marshall Clark and Juliet Pietsch, Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: Cultural Heritage, Politics and Labour Migration
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Indigeneity, Performance, and the State in South Asia and Beyond
Dimensions of Indigeneity in Highland Odisha, India
Placing Indigeneity: Betta Kurumba Narratives of Territory and Clan Structure
Tribal and Modern Voices in South Indian Kota Society
Objectification and Social Aesthetics: Memoranda and the Celebration of “Badaga Day”
The Poetics and Politics of Practical Reason: Indigenous Identity, Ritual Discourse, and the Postcolonial State in the Northern Nilgiris (South India)
The Social Life of an Ethnonym: The “Kattu Nayaka” of South India
Fertility or Indigeneity? Two Versions of the Santal Flower Festival
VCD Crossovers: Cultural Practice, Ideas of Belonging, and Santali Popular Movies
The “Bison Horn” Muria: Making it “More Tribal” for a Folk Dance Competition in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India
Ethnographies of States and Tribes in Highland Odisha
Review of: Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus, The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Review of: Sam Gill, Dancing Culture Religion
Review of: Laura Hirvi, Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Review of: John Baily, Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Mohammad
Review of: Beth Szczepanski, The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts
Review of: Emily Chao, Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
Review of: Anne Murphy, The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition
Review of: Akhil Gupta, Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Review of: Teena Purohit, The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India
Review of: Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam, The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil: Fr. Henriques’ Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History and Analysis
Review of: Amitabh SenGupta, Scroll Paintings of Bengal: Art in the Village
Review of: Smita Tewari Jassal, Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India
Review of: Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long, eds., Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Review of: Yasui Manami, Shussan kankyō no minzokugaku: “Dai san ji osan kakumei” ni mukete
Review of: Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story
Review of: Peter Haskel, Sword of Zen: Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and The Sword Tale
Review of: Merry White, Coffee Life in Japan
Review of: Ian Harper, Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on Healing in Contemporary Nepal
Review of: Jan-Olof Svantesson, Kàm Ràw (Damrong Tayanin), Kristina Lindell and Håkan Lundström Dictionary of Kammu Yùan Language and Culture
Review of: Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
Review of: Sharika Thiranagama, In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka
Review of: Michele Ruth Gamburd, The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster
Review of: Dhana Hughes, Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror, and Gordon Weiss, The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
Review of: Emily T. Yeh, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
Review of: Tanya Zivkovic, Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-between Bodies
Review of: Lauren Meeker, Sounding Out Heritage: Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan Ho Folk Song in Northern Vietnam
Review of: Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism
Editors’ Introduction: Performing Identity Politics and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond
Challenging the State by Reproducing its Principles: The Demand for “Gorkhaland” between Regional Autonomy and the National Belonging
Performing the Garo Nation? Garo Wangala Dancing between Faith and Folklore
Performing Identity: The Transformation of a Tangsa Festival in Assam, Northeast India
The Institutionalization of Tribal Religion Recasting the Donyi-Polo Movement in Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnic Conversions and Transethnic Descent Groups in the Assam-Meghalaya Borderlands
Transcultural Communication and Social Order Comparisons in Upland Southeast Asia
Evading the State Ethnicity in Northeast India through the Lens of James Scott
Review of: Frank J. Korom, The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader
Review of: Roel Sterckx, Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
Review of: Jeremy E. Taylor, Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia
Review of: Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, The Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins
Review of: Andrew Alter, Dancing with Devtās: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India
Review of: Tamal Krishna Goswami, author, Graham M. Schweig, editor, A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti: Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Review of: Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Review of: Patrick Daly, R . Michael Feener, and Anthony S. J. Reid, eds., From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh
Review of: Caren Freeman, Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea
Review of: Katherine Swancutt, Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Review of: Geraldine Pratt, Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love
Review of: Shzr Ee Tan, Beyond ‘Innocence’: Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem
Review of: Erik Harms, Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Baijie and the Bai: Gender and Ethnic Religion in Dali, Yunnan
Confrontation and Compromise: Middle-Class Matchmaking in Twenty-First Century South India
Tsuchigumo sōshi: The Emergence of a Shape-Shifting Killer Female Spider
Modernist Iconoclasm, Resilience, and Divine Power among the Mangghuer of the Northeast Tibetan Plateau
Field Note: Musical Instruments used in Rituals of the Alak in Laos
Review of: Marta E. Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographical Imagination in Late Imperial China
Review of: Stephan Feuchtwang, The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts: Chinese Lessons for Adequate Theory
Review of: Zhongguo minjian wenyi xiehui zhubian 中国民间文艺协会主编 (China Folk Arts Society, ed.), Yalu Wang: Han Miao duizhao 亚鲁王—汉苗对照 (King of Yalu: Han and Miao bilingual text) and Yalu Wang: Tuban bufen 亚鲁王—图版部分 (King of Yalu: Photograph section)
Review of: Matthew Rahaim, Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music
Review of: Karen Pechilis, Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India
Review of: Kelly Pemberton, Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India
Review of: Steve Rabson, The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within
Review of: Barbara R. Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan
Review of: Sarinda Singh, Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
Review of: Xavier Romero-Frias, collector and trans., Folk Tales of the Maldives
Review of: Andrew N. Weintraub, ed., Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Review of: Clare E. Harris, The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
Review of: Paul G. Hackett, Theos Bernard, The White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life
Review of: Marietta Kind, The Bon Landscape of Dolpo: Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Biographies and the Emergence of Bon
The State of Local Cosmologies in Northwest Cambodia in the Aftermath of War
On Conceptions of Paradise and the Tourist Spaces of Southern Sri Lanka
The Vanishing Hitchhiker in Shillong: Khasi Belief Narratives and Violence Against Women
The Purification Process of Death: Mortuary Rites in a Japanese Rural Town
Tradition and Ideology: Creating and Performing New Gushi in China, 1962–1966
Review of: Nile Green, Sufism: A Global History
Review of: Miyamoto Tsuneichi, trans. Jeffrey S. Irish, The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore
Review of: Zília Papp, Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema
Review of: Peter Wynn Kirby, Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan
Review of: Sarah Mehlhop Strong, Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shinyoshu
Review of: Matt Gillan, Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa
Review of: C. Fred Blake, Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld
Review of: Koen Wellens, Religious Revival in the Tibetan Borderlands: The Premi of Southwest China
Review of: Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Review of: Aditya Behl, trans., and Wendy Doniger, ed., The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardī’s Mirigāvatī
Review of: Susan A. Reed, Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
Review of: Trudy Jacobsen, Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History
Review of: Mohd Anis Md Nor and Stephanie Burridge, eds., Sharing Identities: Celebrating Dance in Malaysia
Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan
The Shift from Herding to Hunting among the Siberian Evenki
An Introduction to Tibetan Sa bstod Speeches in A mdo
Wobbly Aesthetics, Performance, and Message: Comparing Japanese Kyara with their Anthropomorphic Forebears
Review of: Tiantian Zheng, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
Review of: Beata Grant and Wilt L. Idema (trans. and intro.), Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang
Review of: Ou Chaoquan, Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930–1949
Shantang: Charitable Temples in China, Singapore, and Malaysia
Review of: Ju-Hong Yun and Pashai Language Committee, On a mountain there is still a road
Review of: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Scoring Off The Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80
Review of: Pratibha Mandal, An Approach to Cultural Mapping in North-East India in Respect to Tribal Tales
Review of: Robert Cribb, Digital Atlas of Indonesia
Review of: Herminia Meñez Coben, Verbal Arts in Philippine Indigenous Communities: Poetics, Society, and History
Review of: Henry Johnson, The Shamisen: Tradition and Diversity
Review of: Roald Knutsen, Tengu: The Shamanic and Esoteric Origins of the Japanese Martial Arts
A Brief History of Indian Religious Ritual and Resource Consumption: Was there an Environmental Ethic?
Civil Ritual, NGOs, and Rural Mobilization in Medinipur District, West Bengal
Power Relations and Cultural Synthesis at an Oral Performance of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa in a Garhwal Community
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Mālañcamālā, Rūpbān, Nūr Bānu, and Madanamañjarī: Popular Imaginings of the Wife-Mother by the Bengali People
Review of: Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Review of: Timo Kaartinen, Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society
Review of: Firoz Mahmud, ed., and Sharani Zaman, ass. ed., Folklore in Context: Essays in Honor of Shamsuzzaman Khan
Review of: Laetitia Merli, De l’ombre à la lumière, de l’individu à la nation: Ethnographie du renouveau chamanique en Mongolie postcommuniste
Dirt, Noise, and Naughtiness: Cinema and the Working Class During Korea’s Silent Film Era
The Baltistan Movement and the Power of Pop Ghazals
“Hanayo no hime,” or “Blossom Princess”: A Late-Medieval Japanese Stepdaughter Story and Provincial Customs
Translation: “Hanayo no hime,” or “Blossom Princess” (online only)
Imitating Enemies or Friends: Comparative Notes on Christianity in the Indigenous Russian Arctic during the Early Soviet Period
Field Note: The Deity and the Mountain: Ritual Practice and Environment in Japan’s Hayachine Take Kagura
Review Essay: Transnational Broken Hearts: An Overview of the Study of Chinese Popular Music
Review of: Sadhana Naithani, The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
Review of: Laurel Kendall, ed., Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance
Review of: Vibeke Børdahl and Margaret B. Wan, eds., The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
Review of: Wilt L. Idema, Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad Stories from the Period 1250-1450
Review of: Hazel J. Wrigglesworth et al., Narrative Episodes from the Tulalang Epic
Review of: Guillaume Rozenberg, trans. Jessica Hackett, Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma
Review of: James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Review of: Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, and Michael Parnwell, eds., Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia
Review of: Håkan Lundström, I will Send my Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the Singing of Kam Raw; and Håkan Lundström and Damrong Tayanin, Kammu Songs: The Songs of Kam Raw
Review of: Jayant Bhalchandra Babat and Ian Mabbett, eds., The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet
Review of: Barbara A. Brower and Barbara Rose Johnston, eds., Disappearing Peoples? Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia
Ethnographic Perspectives on Differentiating Shamans from other Ritual Intercessors
Narrative, Genre, and Contextuality: The Nüshu-Transcribed Liang-Zhu Ballad in Rural South China
Sacred Dance at Sensōji: The Development of a Tradition
The Social Contract and Symbolic Structure in Three Vietnamese Tales of the “Last Born”
“Slit Belly Swamp”: A Japanese Myth of the Origin of the Pleiades?
Research Note: Philippine Sungka and Cultural Contact in Southeast Asia
Review of: Tomoko Aoyama, Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
Review of: Satsuki Kawano, Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
Review of: Christian Gohlert, Die Verehrung von Wasserleichen und ihre Stellung im japanischen Volksglauben
Review of: Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire/Sandra Roth and Carina Roth, Shugendō Now/Where mountains fly
Review of: Grace M. Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
Review of: Laurel Kendall, Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
Review of: Snying bo rgyal and R. Solomon Rino, Deity Men: Reb Gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition
Review of: Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen, On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Review of: Stephen Jones, Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi / Ritual and Music of North China, Volume 2: Shaanbei
Review of: Margaret B. Wan, Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel
Review of: Grégory Delaplace, L’invention des morts. Sepultures, fantômes et photographies en Mongolie contemporaine
Review of: Olga Dror, Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History
Review of: Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, and Michael Parnwell, eds., Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
Review of: Anna Morcom, Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema
Review of: James Kippen, Gurudev’s Drumming Legacy: Music, Theory and Nationalism in the Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati of Gurudev Patwardhan
“The Woman Waylaid at the Well” or Paṇaghaṭa-līlā: An Indian Folk Theme Appropriated in Myth and Movies
Vengeful Spirits or Loving Spiritual Companions?: Changing Views of Animal Spirits in Contemporary Japan
Performing Paradigms of Modern Rajput Masculinities: Men’s Songs to Rao Gopal Singh of Kharwa
Healing and Exorcism: Christian Encounters with Shamanism in Early Modern Korea
Chaste Widows, Cunning Wives, and Amazonian Warriors: Imaging of Women in Tamil Oral Traditions
Review Essay: A Discussion on Nagasawa Sōhei's Hayachine take kagura: Mai no shōchō to shakaiteki jissen
Review of: Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Journey to God: Sufis and Dervishes in Islam
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, ed. Pika-Pika: The Flashing Firefly: Essays for Pauline Walker by her Friends in the Arts and Social Sciences
Review of: Michael Dylan Foster.Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai
Review of: Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan
Review of: Wilburn Hansen, When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other World
Review of: Carolyn S. Stevens, Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity, and Power
Review of: Mark W. MacWilliams, ed., Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
Review of: Yang Erzeng, The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal
Review of: Barley Norton, Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam
Review of:Robert W. Hefner, Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia
Review of: Robert Knox Dentan, Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among the Semai of Malaysia
Review of: Gabriele Alex, Learning and Embodying Caste, Class and Gender: Patterns of Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu
Review of: Leland Liu Rogers, The Golden Summary of Činggis Qačan: Činggis Qayan-u Altan Tobči
Introduction: Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion
An Overview of the Field of Religion in Burmese Studies
Charisma, Power(s), and the Arahant Ideal in Burmese-Myanmar Buddhism
The Cult of Thamanya Sayadaw: The Social Dynamism of a Formulating Pilgrimage Site
On the Ambivalence of Female Monasticism in Theravāda Buddhism: A Contribution to the Study of the Monastic System in Myanmar
“Nats’ Wives” or “Children of Nats”: From Spirit Possession to Transmission Among the Ritual Specialists of the Cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords
A New Palace for Mra Swan Dewi: Changes in Spirit Cults in Arakan (Rakhine) State
Relics, Statues, and Predictions: Interpreting an Apocryphal Sermon of Lord Buddha in Arakan
“What’s Written on the Forehead Will Never Fail”
National Pantheon, Regional Deities, Personal Spirits?
“By the Sweetness of the Tongue”
Local Knowledge Constructed by the State
Re-visioning Gendered Folktales in Novels by Mia Yun and Nora Okja Keller
Lorie Brau, Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo
Kunio Yanagita, The Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition
Kelly M. Foreman, The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning
Simon Mills, Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast Hereditary Shamans
Heonik Kwon, After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Sudha Chandola, Entranced by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion
Shankar Narayana D. Poojary, trans., Epic of the Warriors (Kōti Chennaya Pārdana)
Karl Reichl, ed. and trans., Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov
Editor's Introduction: Popular Religion and the Sacred Life of Material Goods in Contemporary Vietnam
The One-Eyed God at the VietnamMuseum of Ethnology: The Story of a Village Conflict
Three Goddesses in and out of Their Shrine
A Thái Divination Kit in the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Sacred Object, Artifact, or Cultural Icon?
Judith T. Zeitlin, The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-CenturyChinese Literature
Eli Alberts, A History of Daoism and the Yao People of South China
Philip Lutgendorf, Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey
Joost Coté, Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini: Her Sisters’ Lettersfrom Colonial Java
The Moon Bear as a Symbol of Yama
Chanted Narratives of Indigenous People
Redefining the History of Australia’s Asianness
Karin Guggeis et al., eds. Football: One Game – Many Worlds
Kim Brandt. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan
Nathan Hesselink. P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance
Duan Baolin 段寳林, ed. Zhongguo Minjian Wenxue Gaiyao 中國民間文學概要 [Introduction to Chinese Folk Literature] and Zhongguo Minjian Wenyixue 中國民間文藝學 [The Study of Chinese Folk Literature and Arts]
Adam Yuet Chau. Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
Matthew Kapstein. The Tibetans
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen. The Friends of God–Sufi Saints in Islam: Popular Poster Art from Pakistan
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen. The Friends of God–Sufi Saints in Islam: Popular Poster Art from Pakistan
Rice: Representations and Reality
Female Shamans in Eastern Japan during the Edo Period
The True History of Shido Temple
The Making of Tōjin: Construction of the Other in Early Modern Japan
Onmyōji: Sex, Pathos, and Grotesquery in Yumemakura Baku’s Oni
The Kwallye Samga of Korea: A Failed Attempt at Christian Accommodation to Confucian Culture
The Man-Hunting Tiger: From “Wu Song Fights the Tiger” in Chinese Traditions
Notes on Blood Revenge among the Reindeer Evenki of Manchuria (Northeast China)
Village Deities of Tamil Nadu in Myths and Legends: The Narrated Experience
Ordinary Religion, Extraordinary Anthropology: The Contributions of Peter Knecht
How Ancient Is Lore: Southeast Asia Speaks Up
A Striking Tale of Weaving Taboos and Divine Retribution: A Reinterpretation of the Asauchiyama Myth in Harima Fudoki
The Namuyi: Linguistic and Cultural Features
Review of: The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska. Compiled by Wanni W. Anderson
Review of: Frank J. Korom, Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora
Review of: D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the religious landscape of Premodern Japan
Review of: Xiaohuan Zhao, Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History
Review of: Barend J. Ter Haar, Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Review of: Kevin Stuart, Keith W. Slater, Wang Xianzhen et al., Folktales of China’s Minhe Mangghuer
Review of: Les Contes facétieux du cadavre, Translation by Françoise Robin with the collaboration of Klu Rgyal Tshe Ring
Review of: Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid, eds., Việt nam: Borderless Histories
Review of: Thomas L. Cooper, Sacred Painting in Bali: Tradition in Transition
Review of: Jean DeBernardi, The Way that lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia
Review of: Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, and Lalita Handoo, eds., Gender and Story in South India
Review of: Shusha Guppy, The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia
Review of: Vafsi Folk Tales: Twenty Four Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton. Transcription, translation, and annotation by Donald L. Stilo
The Fox in World Literature: Reflections on a “Fictional Animal”
Myths and Traditional Beliefs about the Wolf and the Crow in Central Asia: Examples from the Turkic Wu-Sun and the Mongols
Preaching the Animal Realm in Late Medieval Japan
Symbolic Animals in the Land between the Waters: Markers of Place and Transition
Embodying Evil and Bad Luck: Stray Notes on the Folklore of Bats in Southwest Asia
Culture and Knowledge of the Sacred Instrument Qeej in the Mong-American Community
Ema Shū’s “The Mountain Folk”: Fictionalized Ethnography and Veiled Dissent
Narrative “Lore” and Legend from Saurashtra (India): Gems Waiting to be Polished
Review of: Margaret Read MacDonald, Ten Traditional Tellers
Review of: John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom, ed. and trans., Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays & Poems
Review of: Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China
Review of: Vincent Goossaert, L’interdit du bœuf en Chine. Agriculture, éthique et sacrifice
Review of: Richard Von Glahn, The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture
Review of: Lam Tuyen Tinh, translated and annotated by Honda Mamoru, LangBiang no jiseki: Betonamu Chūbu shōsūminzoku no kodenshō
Review of: Philipus Tule, Longing for the House of God, Dwelling in the House of the Ancestors: Local Belief and Christianity, and Islam among the Kéo of Central Flores
Review of: Gongboo Sayrung (author), Losang Sodnum and Tsepakgyap (illustrations), Tibetan Childhood; Guhruh (author) and Tsepakgyap (illustrations), Jahzong: Tibetan Tribal Hero; Puhua Dongzhi, Tibetan Village Wedding (DVD), The Perfection of Wisdom (DVD), Tibetan Woman’s Life (DVD)
Review of: Sagram Santosh Kumar Soren, comp. Santalia: Catalogue of Santali Manuscripts in Oslo
Review of: Giovanni Canova, ed. Studies on Arab Epics: Oriente Moderno
Review of: Sayyid Hamid Hurreiz, Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates
On the Wings of a Bird: Folklore, Nativism, and Nostalgia in Meiji Letters
Pipit Rochijat’s Subversive Mythologies: The Suharto Era and Beyond
Homo narrans in East Java: Regional Myths and Local Concerns
Symbolism of Hairstyles in Korea and Japan
Obituary: Walther Heissig (1913-2005)
Review of: Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types f International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
Review of: Theodore C. Bestor, Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Review of: Moo-Sook Hahn, And So Flows History
Review of: Chan E. Park, Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing
Review of: Stevan Harrell, Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China
Review of: Huang Qiang 黄強 and Se Yin 色音, Samanjiao tushuo 『薩滿教圖説』
Review of: Jugui Limusishiden and Kevin Stuart, Huzhu Mongghul Folklore: Texts and Translations; Jugui Limusishiden and Kevin Stuart, Huzhu Mongghul Texts: Chileb 1983–1996 Selections
Review of: Erika Taube, Volksmärchen der Mongolen. Aus dem Mongolischen, Russischen und Chinesischen übersetzt und herausgegeben
Review of: Sew’jan I. Weinshtein, Geheimnisvolles Tuwa. Expeditionen in das Herz Asiens
Review of: Caroline Brewer, Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521–1685
Review of: Alexander K. Adelaar, Salako or Badameà: Sketch Grammar, Texts and Lexicon of a Kanayatn Dialect in West Borneo
Review of: Renato Rosaldo, Cultural Citizenship in IslandSoutheast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands
Review of: A. Frenz and K. K. Marar, Wall Paintings in North Kerala/India: 1000 Years of Temple Art
Review of: Susan L. Schwartz, Rasa: Performing the Divine in India
Is it Clothes that Make the Man?: Cross-Dressing, Gender, Sex in Pre-Twentieth-Century Zhu Yingtai Lore
Religious Revival as Reaction to Hegemonization of Power in Siberia in the 1920s to 1940s
Staging a Ritual Dance Out of its Context: The Role of an Individual Artist in Transforming the Alevi Semah
The Historical Relationship between the Shawls of Gürün and Iran
Research on Buddhist Nuns in Japan, Past and Present
Folktale Types of the Arab World
Review of: Günther Distelrath and Peter Kleinen, Fundamentalismus versus Wissenschaft? Zur Identität des Orients in östlichen und westlichen Diskursen
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, The Netherlandish Proverbs: An International Symposium of the Pieter Brueg(h)els
Review of: Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Review of: Ronald P. Loftus, Telling Lives: Women’s Self-Writing in Modern Japan
Review of: Vibeke Børdahl, Fei Li, and Huang Ying, Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling: Full-Length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video 『揚州評評話四家藝人』
Review of: Fan Pen Li Chen, Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi
Review of: Howard Giskin and Bettye S. Walsh, An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family
Review of: Stephen Jones, Plucking the Winds: Lives of Village Musicians in Old and New China
Review of: Kohn Livia, Monastic Life in Medieval China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Review of: Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen, The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang
Review of: Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit
Review of: Lauri Harvilahti, Zoja S. Kazagačeva, The Holy Mountain: Studies on Upper Altai Oral Poetry
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People
Review of: William D. Wilder, Journeys of the Soul: Anthropological Studies of Death, Burial and Reburial Practices in Borneo
Review of: Hillary Peter Rodrigues, Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durgā Pūjā with Interpretations
“Listen, Rāma’s Wife!”: Maithil Women’s Perspectives and Practices in the Festival of Sāmā Cakevā
Folk Culture and Urban Adaptation: A Case Study of the Paharia in Rajshahi
Bridal Laments in Rural Hong Kong
The Revival of Folk Religion and Gender Relationships in Rural China: A Preliminary Observation
Silkworms and Consorts in Nara Japan
The Dog Star and the Multiple Suns Motif: An Asian Contribution to European Mythology
Obituary: Kristina Lindell (1928-2005)
Stories and Language of the Mantauran
Review of: Nanxiu Qian, Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and its Legacy
Review of: Sandra Cate, Making Merit, Making Art: A ThaiTemple in Wimbledon
Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ Qeej Says (Part Two)
Oral Competition Narratives of Muslim and Hindu Saints in the Deccan
Interpreting Untouchability: The Performance of Caste in Andhra Pradesh, South India
Folklores of Sacred Khecheopalri Lake in the Sikkim Himalaya of India: A Plea for Conservation
Btsisi’, Blandas, and Malays: Ethnicity and Identity in the Malay Peninsula Based on Btsisi’ Folklore and Ethnohistory
Review of: Noriko Reider, Tales of the Supernatural in Early Modern Japan: Kaidan, Akinari, Ugetsu Monogatari
Review of: James Huntley Grayson, Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated Compendium of Ancient and Modern Materials
Review of: Mark Bender, Plum and Bamboo: China’s Suzhou Chantefable Tradition
Review of: Shanshan Du, “Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs”: Gender Unity and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China
Review of: Liangyan Ge, Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction
Review of: Rania Huntington, Alien Kinds: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative
Review of: Charles Le Blanc and Rémi Mathieu, Philosophes Taoïstes II: Huainan zi
Review of: Patricia Matusky and Tan Sooi Ben, The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions
Review of: Patricia V. Symonds, Calling in the Soul: Gender and Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
Review of: Molly Kaushal, Chanted Narratives: The Living ‘Katha-Vachana’ Tradition
Review of: Selva J. Raj and Corinne G. Dempsey, Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines
Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ Qeej Says (Part One)
Speaking with Spirits: The Hmong Ntoo Xeeb New Year Ceremony
Shamanic Epics and Narrative Construction of Identity on Cheju Island
Dreaming the Seven-Colored Flower: Eastern and Western Approaches to Dreams in Chinese Folk Literature
The Scorpion in Muslim Folklore
Obituary: Lauri Honko (1932-2002).
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs and Their Lessons: Richard Chenevix Trench
Review of: Mark C. van Tongeren, Overtone Singing: Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West
Review of: Hans Adalbert Dettmer, Acta Sieboldiana VIII. Ein nachgelassenes Manuskript Ph.F. von Siebolds zu “Nippon” Abteilung VII: Das Mogami Tokunai zugeschriebene Ainu-Wörterbuch
Review of: Helen Hardacre, Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers
Review of: Kim Chongho, Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox
Review of: Zhao Deguang 趙徳光, Ashima wenxian huibian 『阿詩瑪文學彙編』; Ashima yuanshi ziliao huibian 『阿詩瑪原始資料彙編』; Ashima yanjiu lunwenji 『阿詩瑪研究論文集』
Review of: Cristina Eghenter, Bernard Sellato, and G. Simon Devung, Social Science Research and Conservation Management in the Interior of Borneo: Unravelling Past and Present Interactions of People and Forests
Review of: Thomas H. Slone, One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspaper
Review of: Qiron Adhikary, Feminist Folktales from India; William Crooke and Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, Folktales from Northern India
Review of: M. V. Kamath and Kalindi Randeri, Indian Names: From Classical to Contemporary (For People, Places and Products)
Review of: Ramdas Lamb, Rapt in the Name: The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion in Central India
Review of: Martin Gaenszle, Ancestral Voices: Oral Ritual Texts and their Social Contexts among the Mewahang Rai of East Nepal
Review of: Alan Dundes, Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur’an
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Revitalizing Japanese Folklore
Cultural Diversity and Folklore Studies in Japan: A Multiculturalist Approach
Between Preservation and Tourism: Folk Performing Arts in Contemporary Japan
Folktale Research After Yanagita: Development and Related Issues
A Female Shaman’s Mind and Body, and Possession
On Cognitive Aspects of Rhetorical Time Reckoning: Metaphor and Image-Schema in Calendrical Divination in Okinawa
Review of: Lauri Honko, The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics
Review of: Ingrid Fritsch, Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music (1901–1913)
Review of: Gloria Ganz Gonick, Matsuri! : Japanese Festival Arts
Review of: Honda Katsuichi, Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale
Review of: Alessandro Dell’Orto, Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life
Review of: Li Fuqing, Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi
Review of: Richard E. Strassberg, A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
Review of: Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities
Review of: Carlos R. Medina, 106 Ifugao Abu’Wab Tales Documented by Frans Lambrecht, C.I.C.M. From 1932 to 1957
Review of: Clifford Sather, Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants
Review of: Bernard Sellato, Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures
Review of: Alexander M. Dubianski, Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry
Review of: Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales
Review of: Martine van Woerkens, The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginations and the Thugs of India
Review of: P. Marcel Kupershoek, Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, 4. A Saudi Tribal History: Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawāsir
The Increase of Shamans in Contemporary Ladakh: Some Preliminary Observations
The Storyteller’s Manner in Chinese Storytelling
May the Gods Strike you Dead!: Healing Through Subversion in Shamanic Narratives
Transformation of the Oni: From the Frightening and Diabolical to the Cute and Sexy
Review of: John Miles Foley, How to Read an Oral Poem
Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
Review of: Bamo Qubumo 巴莫曲布嫫 , Yingling yu shihun, Yizu gudai jingji shixue yanjiu 『鷹霊与詩魂, 彝族古代経籍学研究』
Review of: Ronald G. Knapp, China’s Walled Cities
Review of: Christine Helliwell, “Never Stand Alone”: A Study of Borneo Society
Review of: Stuart Blackburn, Moral Fictions: Tamil Folklore from Oral Tradition
Review of: Jawaharlal Handoo, Folklore in Modern India; Lauri Honko, Jawaharlal Handoo, and John Miles Foley, The Epic: Oral and Written
Review of: Ulrich Marzolph, Narrative Illustrations in Persian Lithographed Books
Review of: Jürgen W. Frembgen, Kleidung und Ausrüstung islamischer Gottsucher. Ein Beitrag zur materiellen Kultur des Derwischwesens
Tales, Tanks, and Temples: The Creation of a Sacred Center in Seventeenth-Century Bengal
The Revival of Folksongs in South Korea: The Case of Tondollari
Jingū Kōgō Ema in Southwestern Japan: Reflections and Anticipations of the Seikanron Debate in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Period
From Constantinople to Istanbul: Two Sources on the Historical Folklore of a City
Folk Medicinal Plants in the Sikkim Himalayas of India
Review of: Nathalie Kouamé, Pèlerinage et société dans le Japon des Tokugawa. Le pèlerinage de Shikoku entre1598 et 1868
Review of: Vibeke Børdahl and Jette Ross, Chinese Storytellers: Life and Art in the Yangzhou Tradition
Review of: Robert F. Campany, To Live As Long As Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong’s Traditions of Divine Transcendents
Review of: Edward Hacker, Steve Moore, Lorraine Pasco, I Ching: An Annotated Bibliography
Review of: Marc L. Moskowitz, The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan
Review of: René Schnell, Briefe aus Shanghai 1946-1952: Dokumente eines Kulturschocks
Review of: Roel Sterckx, The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Review of: Eva Maria Kershaw, A Study of Brunei Dusun Religion: Ethnic Priesthood on a Frontier of Islam
Review of: Pui Huen Lim, James H. Morrison and Kwa Chong Guan, Oral History in Southeast Asia: Theory and Method
Review of: Alf Hiltebeitel, Rethinking the Mahābhārata: A Reader’s Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
Review of: José Luiz Martinez, Semiosis in Hindustani Music
Review of: Todd T. Lewis, Popular Buddhist Texts From Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism
Review of: James A. Matisoff, Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
“The Blessing of Living in a Country Where There Are Senryū”: Humor in Response to Aum Shinrikyō
Cultural Accommodations in Southeast China: The “Han Miao” and Problems in the Ethnography of the Hmong
From Oral Tradition to “Folk Art”: Reevaluating Bengali Scroll Paintings
Obituary: Anatolij Makarovič Kajgorodov (1927-1998).
Review of: Kerbelite Bronislava, Tipi narodnyh skazanij. The Types of Folk Legends: The Strucutral-Semantic Classification of Lithuanian Aetiological, Mythological and Historical Legends
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
Review of: Nancy A. Niedzielski and Dennis R. Preston, Folk Linguistics
Review of: Enchi Fumiko, A Tale of False Fortunes
Review of: Endō Shōji, Folktales of Okinawa
Review of: Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Review of: Carrie E. Reed, Chinese Chronicles of the Strange: The “Nuogao ji”
Review of: E. M. Makharov, Olonkho—duhovnoe nasledije naroda sakha
From Iranian Myth to Folk Narrative: The Legend of the Dragon-Slayer and the Spinning Maiden in the Persian Book of the Kings
Persian Popular Literature in the Qajar Period
The Gender of the Trick: Female Tricksters and Male Narrators
Rostam’s Seven Trials and the Logic of Epic Narrative in the Shahnama
Traces of Ancient Iranian Culture in Boysun District, Uzbekistan
The Persianization of Köroflu: Banditry and Royalty in ThreeVersions of the Köroflu Destan
Healing Practices among Yezidi Sheikhs of Armenia
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder and Deborah Holmes, “Children and Proverbs Speak the Truth”: Teaching Proverbial Wisdom to Fourth Graders
Review of: Beatrice K. Otto, Fools are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World
Review of: William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil, Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Review of: Josef Kreiner, Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in European Collections
Review of: Jörg Bäcker, Mandschurische Göttinnen und iranische Teufel. Die Mandschu-Weltentstehungsmythen als Kultursynthesen
Review of: Chao Gejin 朝戈金, Kochuan shishi xue: Ranpile “Jiangge’er” chengshi jufa yanjiu 『口傳史詩學: 冉皮勒馬 《講格爾》 程式句法研究』
Review of: Ronald G. Knapp, China’s Old Dwellings
Review of: Élisabeth Papineau, Le jeu dans la Chine contemporaine: Mah-jong, jeu de go et autres loisirs
Review of: Meir Shahar, Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature
Review of: Wu Yiwen 呉一文 and Tan Dongping 覃東平, Miaozu guge yu Miaozu lishi wenhua yanjiu 『苗族古歌與苗族歴史文化研究』
Review of: Jill Oakes and Rick Riewe, Spirit of Siberia: Traditional Life, Clothing, and Footwear
Review of: Siraporn T. Nathalang, Thai Folklore: Insights into Thai Culture
Review of: Herman Tieken, Kāvya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry
Review of: Jürgen Wasim Frembgen and Hans Werner Mohm, Lebensbaum und Kalaschnikow. Krieg und Frieden im Spiegel afghanischer Bildteppiche
The Names and Identities of the Boramey Spirits Possessing Cambodian Mediums
Chindonya Today: Japanese Street Performers in Commercial Advertising
The Emergence of Kaidan-shū: The Collection of Tales of the Strange and Mysterious in the Edo Period
A Description of Jiangjing (Telling Scriptures) Services in Jingjiang, China
Obituary: Nelly Naumann (1922-2000)
Review of: Alan Dundes, International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore
Review of: John Miles Foley, Homer’s Traditional Art
Review of: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Narrative Performances: A Study of Modern Greek Storytelling
Review of: Peter Gilet, Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm—Story as Initiation
Review of: Gerald Groemer, The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan
Review of: Helen Hardacre, The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States
Review of: Christina Nygren, Gastar, Generaler och Gäckande Gudinnor. Resande teatersällskap, religiösa festivaler och populära nöjen i dagens Japan och Kina
Review of: Monika Wacker, Onarigami. Die heilige Frau in Okinawa
Review of: Ronald G. Knapp, China’s Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation
Review of: Lunan Yizu zizhixian minzu zongjiao shiwuju 路南彝族自治縣民族宗教事務局, Lunan Yizu mizhijie yishige yiliao,Lunan Yiwen guji congshu 『路南彝族密枝節儀式歌譯疏, 路南彝文古籍叢書』; Shlin Yizu zizhixian minzu zongjiao shiwuju 石林彝族自治縣民族宗教事務局 Yizu Sani jisici yiliao, Shilin Yiwen gudian congshu 『彝族撤尼祭祀詞譯疏, 石林彝文古典籍叢書』
Review of: Nikolaj V. Emeljanov, Sjuzhety olongkho o zashchitnikah plemeni
Review of: Nicole Revel and Mäsinu Intaräy, La quête en épouse. Mämiminbin, une épopée palawan chantée par Mäsinu
Review of: Elizabeth Hinton, Oldest Brother's Story: Tales of the Pwo Karen
Review of: Gerry Abbot and Min Thant Han, The Folk-tales of Burma: An Introduction
Review of: James J. Fox, Clifford Sather, Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography
Review of: Gregory G. Maskarinec, Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Review of: Earaplackal Varghese and Peter Paul Hembrom, Ethnomedical Lore of the Paharias: Applied Ethnomedicine of the Paharias of Santhal Parganas-Bihar
Review of: Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning
Holy Cow! The Apotheosis of Zebu, or Why the Cow is Sacred in Hinduism
The Oral and Ritual Culture of Chinese Women: Bridal Lamentations of Nanhui
The Annual Round of Agricultural Tasks in Dongyang County: Synoptic Illusion or Symbolic Capital?
The Appeal of Kaidan, Tales of the Strange
Obituary: Miyata Noboru (1936-2000)
Religion, Gender and Okinawan Studies
Correspondence: Jan-Öjvind Swahn’s Review of Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asia
Review of: Klaus Peter Köpping, The Games of Gods and Man: Essays in Play and Performance
Review of: Meher McArthur, Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu
Review of: Scott Schnell, The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community
Review of: Ueda Makoto, Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
Review of: Chen Diexian, The Money Demon: An Autobiographical Romance
Review of: Stephen Jones, Folk Music of China: Living Instrumental Traditions
Review of: Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu, Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs
Review of: Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, Chinese Folk Songs and Folk Singers: Shan’ge Traditions in Southern Jiangsu
Review of: Marie-Lise Beffa and Laurence Delaby, Festins d’âmes et robes d’esprits. Les objets chamaniques sibériens du Musée de l’Homme
Review of: William A. Collins, The Guritan of Radin Suane: A Study of the Besemah Oral Epic from South Sumatra
Review of: Johannes Maria Hämmerle, Nias—eine eigene Welt: Sagen, Mythen, Überlieferungen
Review of: Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, Glimpses of the IndianVillage in Anthropology and Literature
Review of: Alf Hiltebeitel, Rethinking India’s Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits
Review of: F. R. Young and G. S. B. Senanayaka, The Carpenter-Heretic: A Collection of Buddhist Stories about Christianity from 18th-Century Sri Lanka
Review of: CD Seven Orients, The Voice of the Khene: Enchanted Airs from the Lao Pan Flute
Toothless Ancestors, Felicitous Descendants: The Rite of Secondary Burial in South Taiwan
KaaLiyaaTTam: The Life History of a Performer and the Develop-ment of a Performing Art
Elegiac Chhand and Duhā in Charani Lore
The Bone Motif and Lambs in the Turkish Folktale “The Reed Door”
Obituary: Stephen Fuchs SVD (1908-2000)
Obituary: Wang Xiaotang (1918–2000)
Review of: Amy K. Crook, Jelena O. Krstovic and Daniel G. Marowski, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Volume 26: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder and Anna Tóthné Litovkina, Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs
Review of: Sen Sōlshitsu XV., The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū
Review of: Karen A. Smyers, The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship
Review of: Vibeke Børdahl, The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China
Review of: Gao Yan, The Art of Parody: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Use of Chinese Sources
Review of: Stevan Harrell, Bamo Qubumo and Ma Erzi, Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China
Review of: Florian Reiter, The Aspiration and Standards of Taoist Priests in the Early T’ang Period
Review: Li Yu, A Tower for the Summer Heat
Review: Paula R. Bos, Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors
Review: Valentine E. Daniel, Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence
Review: Lauri Honko, Textualising the Siri Epic; Lauri Honko, Chinnappa Gowda, Anneli Honko, and Viveka Rai, The Siri Epic as Performed by Gopala Naika
Review of: A. K. Ramanujan, A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India
Review of: Muhammad Ahmad Panāhī Semnānī, Tarāne wa tarānesarāyī dar Iran
A Stinger in the Tale: “The Sudden Awakening” Ending in East Asian Folktales
Papercut Stories of the Manchu Woman Artist Hou Yumei
The Social Significance of the Shaman among the Chinese Reindeer-Evenki
Spotted Doves at War: The Praak Sangkiil
Review of: Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus and Susasnne Wofford, Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
Review of: Yen Ping-Chiu, Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asia: Selected Texts, Parallel Analysis and Comparative Approach
Review of: Karen Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays
Review of: John S. Brownlee, Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu
Review of: Ingrid Fritsch, Japans blinde Sänger im Schutz der Gottheit Myōon-Benzaiten
Review of: Brian Moeran, Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
Review of: Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Review of: Pu Zhong-Yong 浦忠勇, Taiwan Zou zu minjian geyao 『台湾鄒族民間歌謡』
Review of: Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathe, Thomas Ross Miller, Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897–1902
Review of: Terry E. Miller and Jarernchai Chonpairot, A History of Siamese Music Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505–1932
Review of: L. Bansat-Boudon, Théâtres indiens
Review of: Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman, Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Review of: András Höfer, Tamang Ritual Texts II: Ethnographic Studies in the Oral Traditions and Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal
Review of: Walburga Haas, Volkskunde und Brauchtumspflege im Nationalsozialismus in Salzburg: Referate,Diskussionen, Archivmaterial
Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs: Musical Characteristics
“Laughing on the Beacon Tower”: Spring Festival Songs from Qinghai
A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thong Village, Qinghai
Folk Medicinal Plants of the Nagas in India
Response of: G. Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
Review of: Damiana L. Eugenio, ASEAN Folk Literature: An Anthology
Review of: Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones, Folkloristics: An Introduction
Review of: John A. Lent, Asian Popular Culture
Review of: Klaus Antoni, Shintō und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens (kokutai): Der religiöse Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans
Review of: Sonja Arntzen, The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
Review of: Laurence R. Kominz, Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition
Review of: Michael Martischnig,Tätowierung ostasiatischer Art. Zu Sozialgeschichte und handwerklicher Ausführung von gewerblichem Hautstich in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Japans
Review of: Barbara E. Thornbury, The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Cultures in Contemporary Japan
Review of: Guizhousheng Minzushiwu Weiyuanhui Minzu Yuwen Bangongshi 貴州省民族事務委員会民族語文化公室, Bangx hxak: Miaozu guge gehua 『苗族古歌歌花』
Review of: Terry F. Kleeman, Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom
Review of: Anne E. McLaren, Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables
Review of: Marc Garanger and Roberte N. Hamayon, Taïga, terre de chamans
Review of: Keane Webb, Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society
Review of: Alan Dundes, Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability
Review of: Allyn Miner, Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Review of: Wulfhild Ziel, Bibliographien zu Slawisch-folkloristischem Schriftgut–ausgewählt aus dem Vorlesungsrepertoire von Vladimir Propp–und zu Slawischer Folklore und Folklore vom Balkan von NikitaI. Tolstoi, Ed.
Kejadian Manusia: An “histoire” of Malay/Semai Culture Contact
To Be or Not to Be…: The Cultural Identity of the Jawi (Thailand)
Fasts, Feasts, and the Slovenly Woman: Strategies of Resistance among North Indian Potter Women
Sŏngha Sindang: The Tutelary Shrine of T’aeha Village, Ullŭng Island, Korea
Shamanic Dance in Japan: The Choreography of Possession in Kagura Performance
The Magicality of the Hyena: Beliefs and Practices in West and South Asia
Response of: Naithani’s Review
Review of: Juha Pentikäinen, Shamanism and Culture
Review of: Leander Petzoldt, Folk Narrative and World View: Vortäge des 10. Kongresses der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Volkserzählungsforschung
Review of: Kathrin Pöge-Alder, Märchen als mündlich tradierte Erzählungen des Volkes? Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Entstehungs und Verbreitungstheorien von Volksmarchen von den Brildern Grimm bis zur Mdrchenforschung in der DDR
Review of: Hiraizumi Kiyoshi 平泉澄, The Story of Japan: History from the Founding of the Nation to the Height of Fujiwara Prosperity
Review of: Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868
Review of: Stephen Turnbull, The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs, and Rituals to the Present Day
Review of: Li Shujiang and Karl W. Luckert., Mythology and Folklore Hui, a Mulslim Chinese People
Review of: Wu Zongxi, Suzhou pingtan wenxuan, disan ce
Review of: Zhang Henshui, Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel
Review of: Walther Heissig, Götter im Wandel. Gesammelte Aufsätze zum Synkretismus der mongolischen Volksreligion
Review of: Walther Heissig, Motiv und Wirklichkeit. Gesammelte Aufsätze
Review of: Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon, Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols
Review of: Gunnar Jarring, The Moen Collection of Eastern Turki (New Uighur) Popular Poetry
Review of: Andrea Schmitz, Die Erzdhlung von Edige. Gehalt, Genese und Wirkung einer heroischen Tradition
Review of: Frank J. Korom, Tibetan Culture in the Diaspora: Papers Presented at a Panel of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies
Review of: James Jemut Masing, The Coming of the Gods: An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the BalehRiver Region, Sarawak
Review of: Penny Van Esterik, Women of Southeast Asia
Review of: Edward O. Henry, Chant the Names of God: Music and Culture in Bhojpuri-Speaking India
Review of: Barbara Stoler Miller, Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva’s G‡tagovinda
Review of: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
Review of: E. Varghese, Applied Ethnobotany: A Case Study Among the Kharias of Central India
Review of: Jürgen Ehlers, Die Natur in der Bildersprache des Š„hn„me
Review of: Peter Heath, The Thirsty Sword: Sīrat ‘Antar and the Arabic Popular Epic
The Metamorphosis of the Kappa: Transformation of Folklore to Folklorism in Japan
Shashthi’s Land: Folk Nursery Rhyme in Abanindranath Tagore’s The Condensed-Milk Doll
Rivalry, Reliance, and Resemblance: Siblings as Metaphor for Hindu-Christian Relations in Kerala State
May You Be Shot With Greasy Bullets: Curse Utterances in Turkish
Mon Music for Thai Deaths: Ethnicity and Status in Thai Urban Funerals
Obituary: Chen Wulou (1923-1998). Old Questions Discussed Anew On Huaben
Review of: Clara Brakel, Performing Arts of Asia: The Performer as (Inter) Cultural Transmitter
Review of: Linda Dégh, Narratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration
Review of: Thomas J. Sienkewicz, World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies
Review of: Helen Hardacre, Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan
Review of: Jane Marie Law, Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition
Review of: Donald McCallum, Zenkōji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art
Review of: Jahyun Kim Haboush, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
Review of: Deborah Lynn Porter, From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction
Review of: Sui Shujin 隨書金, Elunchunzu minjian gushixuan 『鄂倫春族民間故事選』
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, Mvuh hpa, mi hpa: Creating Heaven, Creating Earth: An Epic Myth of the Lahu People in Yunnan
Review of: Jianping Wang, Concord and Conflict: The Hui Communities in Yunnan Society in a Historical Perspective
Review of: Tossa Wajuppa, Phya Khankhaak, The Toad King: A Translation of an Isan Fertility Myth into English Verse
Review of: Lyne Bansat Boudon, Poétique du théâtre indien: Lectures du N„¦yaš„stra
Review of: Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, The Taste of Laughter: Aspects of Tamil Humor
Review of: Lalita Handoo, Structural Analysis of Kashmiri Folktales
Review of: Basavaraj S. Naikar, The Folk Theatre of North Karnataka
Review of: P. Marcel Kurpershoek, Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia 2: The Story of a Desert Knight
Review of: Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth
Review of: Helga Teiwes., Hopi Basked Weaving: Artistry in Natural Fibers
The Goddess Durg„ in the East-Javanese Period
Offerings to Durga and Pretiwi in Bali
Sandhang-pangan for the Goddess: Offerings to Sang Hyang Bathari Durga and Nyai Lara Kidul
Tārā and Nyai Lara Kidul: Images of the Divine Feminine in Java
Kanjeng Ratu Kidul: The Second Divine Spouse of the Sultans of Ngayogyakarta
A Princess from Sunda: Some Aspects of Nyai Roro Kidul
Dewi Sri in Village Garb: Fertility, Myth, and Ritual in Northeast Java
Beru Dayang: The Concept of Female Spirits and the Movement of Fertility in Karo Batak Culture
Review of: Kees Epskamp, On Printed Matter and Beyond: Media, Orality and Literacy
Review of: Irit Averbuch, The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura
Review of: Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken, Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
Review of: Nelly Naumann, Die Mythen des alten Japan
Review of: Christal Whelan, The Beginning of Heaven and Earth: The Sacred Book of Japan’s Hidden Christians
Review of: Choe Kil-Sung 崔吉城, Kankoku minzoku e no shōtai 『韓国民俗への招待』
Review of: Laurel Kendall, Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
Review of: Johann Frick, Zwischen Himmel und Erde. Riten und Brauchtum in Nordwestchina
Review of: Claudio Zanier, Where the Roads Met: East and West in the Silk Production Processes (17th to 19th Century)
Review of: Herminia Meñez, Explorations in Philippine Folklore
Review of: Laurie J. Sears, Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Review of: John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, Devī: Goddesses of India
Review of: R. Parthasarathy, The Cilappatrikāram of Ilankō Atikal: An Epic of South India
Review of: H. Sidky, Irrigation and State Formation in Hunza: The Anthropology of a Hydraulic Kingdom
Reviw of: Reply to Frembgen’s Review
Review of: David B. Edwards, Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier
A Turkish Animal Poem by Aşik Ömer
Professional Storytelling in Modern China: A Case Study of the Yangzhou Pinghua Tradition
Text and Talk: Classical Literary Tales in Traditional China and the Context of Casual Oral Storytelling
Geomancy and the Environment in Premodern Taiwan
An Annotated Chhara Punthi : Nursery Rhymes from Bengal
The Polythetic Network of Tamil Folk Tales
On the Extinction of the Japanese Wolf
Review of: Ruth Finnegan, Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder and George B. Bryan, Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography
Review of: Walter Scherf, Das Märchenlexikon
Review of: Bartlett Jere Whiting, When Evensong and Morrowsong Accord: Three Essays on the Proverb
Review of: Stephen Addiss, Haiga: Takebe Sōchō and the Haiku-Painting Tradition
Review of: Sano Kenji 佐野賢治, Taniguchi Mitsugi 谷口貢, Nakagome Mutsuko 中込睦子, and Furuie Shinpei 古家信平, Gendai minzokugaku nyūmon 『現代民俗学入門』
Review of: Vibeke Børdahl, The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling
Review of: Chan Hok-Lam 陳學霖, Liu Po-wen yü No-chan Ch’eng 『劉伯温逕哪吨城』
Review of: Paul R. Katz, Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang
Review of: Adolf Krayer, Als der Osten noch fern war: Reiseerinnerungen aus China und Japan (1860–1869)
Review of: Ingo Nentwig, Märchen der Völker Nordost-Chinas
Review of: Boris L’vovich Riftin, Zhongguo shenhua gushi lunji 『中國神話故事論集』
Review of: Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture of the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Review of: J. Lawrence Witzleben, “Silk and Bamboo” Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Review of: Wu Zongxi 呉宗錫 et al, Pingtan wenhua cidian 『評彈文化詞典』
Review of: Damiana Eugenio, Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths
Review of: András Höfer, A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman in Nepal
Review of: Gregory G. Maskarinec, The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Review of: Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora and Robert P. Sikora, Krishnattam
Review of: Heidrun Brückner, Lothar Lutze, and Aditya Malik, Flags of Fame: Studies in South Asian Folk Culture
Review of: R. Srinivasan, Aiyanar’s Domain: Political and Social Conditions and Attitudes in Tamil Folk Literature
Review of: Joanna Williams, The Two-headed Deer: Illustrations of the Rāmāyana in Orissa
Review of: Étienne Tiffou, Hunza Proverbs
Review of: Satu Apo, The Narrative World of Finnish Fairy Tales: Structure, Agency, and Evaluation in Southwest Finnish Folktales
Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community, Nepal
The Thây: Masters in Huê, Vietnam
“Stone Camels and Clear Springs”: The Salar’s Samarkand Origins
Type- and Motif-Indices 1980–1995: An Inventory
An Anthology of Sources on Chinese Mythology
Folklore under Political Pressure
Obituary: Francisco Radaza Demetrio (1920–1996)
Review of: Mihály Hoppál and Ádám Molnár, Shaman: An International Journal for Shamanistic Research
Review of: John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance
Review of: Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale
Review of: Gloria Gonick, Splendor of the Dragon: Costumes of the Ryukyu Kingdom
Review of: Miyata Noboru 宮田登, Takada Mamoru 高田衛, Namazu-e: Shinsai to Nihon bunka 『鯰絵-震災と日本文化』
Review of: Marshall R. Pihl, The Korean Singer of Tales
Review of: Boudewijn Walraven, Songs of the Shaman: The Ritual Chants of the Korean mudang
Review of: Livia Kohn, Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China
Review of: Lucien Miller, South of the Clouds: Tales from Yunnan
Review of: Isabelle Robinet, Introductionà l'alchimie intérieure taoïste: De I'unitiet de l’unité et de la multiplicité
Review of: Shen Congwen, Imperfect Paradise: Twenty-four Stories
Review of: John Robert Shepherd, Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya
Review of: Zhu Liangwen, The Dai or the Tai and Their Architecture and Customs in South China
Review of: Klaus Koppe, Mongolische Epen XII: Jula aldar Quyan und Uyan mönggun qadayasun
Review of: Esther Jacobson, The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia: A Study in the Ecology of Belief
Review of: Patricia Moore-Howard, The Iu-Mien: Tradition and Change
Review of: John Mundahl, Dave Moore, and Yee Chang, A Free People: Our Stories, Our Voices, Our Dreams
Review of: Lorraine M. Gesick, In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History
Review of: Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold, Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
Review of: Erika Taube, Skazki i predanija altajskih tuvincev; Z. B. Samdan and A. V. Kudijarova, Tuvinskie narodnye skazki
Review of: Tazim R. Kassam, Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance: Hymns of the Satpanth Ismāīlī Muslim Saint, Pīr Shams
Review of: Liliana Daskalova Perkowski, Doroteja Dobreva, Jordanka Koceva, and Evgenija Miceva, Typenverzeichnis der bulgarischen Volksmärchen
Review of: Bernard Juillerat, Œdipe chasseur: Une rnythologie du sujet en Nouvelle-Guinée
Review of: John A. Z’Graggen, Creation through Death or Deception
Tagore’s Lokashahitya: The Oral Tradition in Bengali Children’s Rhymes
The Festival of the Nine Emperor Gods in Malaysia: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol
Legends by the Numbers: The Symbolism of Numbers in the Secret History of the Mongols
“Suan the Guesser”: A Filipino Doctor Know-All (AT 1641)
Female Mountain Spirits in Korea: A Neglected Tradition
The Folklore of Geckos: Ethnographic Data from South and West Asia
Review of: Ulrika Wolf- Knuts, Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 1993; Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 1994
Review of: Malcolm Quinn, The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol
Review of: Amino Yoshihiko 網野善彦, Chūsei o kangaeru: Shokunin to geinō 『中世を考える: 職人と芸能』
Review of: Scott Clark, Japan: A View from the Bath
Review of: Horst Siegfried Hennemann, Chasho: Geist und Geschichte der Theorien japanischer Teekunst
Review of: Izumi Ken 和泉健, Onkai to Nihonjin: Wakayama-ken no warabe uta kenkyū 『音階と日本人―和歌山県のわらべうた研究』
Review of: Nelly Naumann, Die einheimische Religion Japans: Synkretistische Lehren und religiöse Entwicklungen von der Kamakura―bis zum Beginn der Edo-Zeit
Review of: Jörg Bäcker, Märchen aus der Mandschurei
Review of: Terry F. Kleeman, A God's Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong
Review of: Liu Chih-Wan 劉枝萬, Taiwan no dōkyō to minkan shinkō 『台湾の道教と民間信仰』
Review of: Nguyen Dinh Tham, Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature: A Preliminary Bibliography
Review of: Damrong Tayanin, Being Kammu: My Village, My Life
Review of: Clemens Wein, Berinareu: The Religious Epic of the Tirurais
Review of: Alice M. Terada, The Magic Crocodile and Other Folktales from Indonesia
Review of: Hans Fischer, Geister und Menschen: Mythen, Märchen und neue Geschichten
Review of: Walther Heissig, Oralität und Schriftlichkeit mongolischer Spielmannsdichtung
Review of: Walther Heissig, Heldenmärchen versus Heldenepos? Strukturelle Fragen zur Entwicklung altaischer Heldenmärchen
Review of: Amelie Schenk, Schamanen auf dem Dach der Welt: Trance, Heilung und Initiation in Kleintibet
Review of: Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed, Ghosts: Life and Death in North India
Review of: Natalia Lidova, Drama and Ritual in Early Hinduism
Review of: Hasan El-Shamy, Folk Traditions of the Arab World: A Guide to Motif Classification
Review of: David Pinault, Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights
Review of: Daniel Martin Varisco, Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science: The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan
Tradition Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
The Last Tiger in East Java: Symbolic Continuity in Ecological Change
Mountain Gods and Trance Mediums: A Qinghai Tibetan Summer Festival
Yamato-takeru: An “Arthurian” Hero in Japanese Tradition
The Woman Who Married a Horse: Five Ways of Looking at a Chinese Folktale
A Common Nomenclature for Traditional Rhymes
Review of: Alison Rentelen Dundes and Alan Dundes, Folk Law: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
Review of: Charles F. Keyes, Laurel Kendall, and Helen Hardacre, Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia
Review of: Luisa Passerini, Memory and Totalitarianism
Review of: Nicholas Thomas and Caroline Humphrey, Shamanism, History, and the State
Review of: Reiko Mochinaga Brandon and Barbara B. Stephan, The Japanese New Year: Spirit and Symbol
Review of: Sawada Minoru, The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times
Review of: Kenneth Dean, Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
Review of: Monica Drexler, Daoistische Schriftmagie: Interpretationen zu den Schriftamuletten Fu im Daozang.
Review of: Feng Jicai, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Footbinding
Review of: Carolyn Han, Why Snails Have Shells: Minority and Han Folktales of China
Review of: Walther Heissig, Fragen der mongolischen Heldendichtung, Teil 5. Vorträge des 6: Epensymposiums des Sonderforschungsbereichs 12, Bonn 1988
Review of: Kevin Stuar, The Teller of Seventy Lies & Other Mongolian Folktales
Review of: Yang Dao, Hmong at the Turning Point
Review of: Sommai Premchit and Amphay Dore, The Lan Na Twelve-Month Traditions
Review of: Niaz Zaman, Princess Kalabati and Other Tales
Review of: Brenda E. F. Beck, Elder Brothers Story: An Oral Epic of Tamil
Mary Carroll Smith, The Warrior Code of India's Sacred Song
Reviw of: Joanne Punzo Waghorne, The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India
Review of: Ulrich Marzolph and Azar Amirhosseini-Nihammer, Die Erzählungen der Mašdi Galin Hānom / Qessehā-ye Mashdī Galīn Khānom; Ulrich Marzolph, Dāstānhā-ye-širin: Fünfzig persische Volksbüchlein aus der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts
Reviw of: P. Marcel Kurpershoek, Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia I: The Poetry of ad-Dindān, Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd
The Stone Baby: A Turkish Lullaby (Nasih Güngör)
Transfiguration: Man-made Objects as Demons in Japanese Scrolls
The Social Status of the Yakut Epic Hero
The Carpenter-Prēta: An Eighteenth-Century Sinhala-Buddhist Folktale about Jesus
The Tale of Itu: Structure of a Ritual Tale in Context
Indexing Folk Literature of South American Indians
Review of: Rustom Bharucha, Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
Review of: Kees Epskamp, Learning by Performing Arts: From Indigenous to Endogenous Cultural Development; Ad Boeren and Kees Epskamp, The Empowerment of Culture: Development, communication. and Popular Media
Review of: Mihály Hoppál and Otto J. von Sadovszky, Shamanism: Past and Present
Review of: Sitakant Mahapatra, Beyond the Word: The Multiple Gestures of Tradition
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder and Stuart A. Kingsbury, A Dictionary of Wellerisms
Review of: C. W. Watson and Roy Ellen, Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia
Review of: Jane M. Bachnik and Charles J. Quinn Jr., Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
Review of: Timothy Clark, Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum
Review of: Ishimaru Shōun 石丸正運, Ōtsu-e: Kaidō ni umareta minga 『大津絵-街道に生まれた民画』
Review of: Kayano Shigeru, Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
Review of: Yung-Hee Kim, Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin hishō of Twelfth-Century Japan
Review of: Arthur H. 'I'hornhill Ш, Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku
Review of: Susan C. Tyler, The Cult of Kasuga Seen through Its Art
Review of: Ronald G. Knapp, Chinese Landscapes: The Village as Place
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, The Highland Heritage: Collected Essays on Upland North Thailand
Review of: Mary Margaret Steedly, Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Review of: Silke Herrmann, Kesar-Versionen aus Ladakh
Review of: Margret H. Case, Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own
Review of: Kathryn Hansen, Grounds for Play: The Nautankī Theatre of North India
Review of: Friedrich Seltmann, Schattenspiel in Karnātaka, Süd-Indien
Review of: Metin Yurtbaşi, A Dictionary of Turkish Proverbs
Review of: John Minton, "Big 'Fraid and Little "Fraid": An Afro-American Folktale
Fifteen Years of Folk Song Collection in Japan: Reports and Recordings of the “Emergency Folk Song Survey”
The Cultural Properties Protection Law and Japan’s Folk Performing Arts
Tracing Some Mongol Oral Motifs in a Chinese Prosimetric Ming Novel of 1478
An Ethnobotanical Folktale of the Ao Naga in India
The Song of Tij: A Genre of Critical Commentary for Women in Nepal
Folk Narrative Literature in Chinese Nüshu: An Amazing New Discovery
Cosmology, Myth, and Philosophy in Ancient China: New Studies on the Huainan zi
Shinto Shrines or Shinto Temples ?
Review of: Yves Bonnefoy, Asian Mythologies
Review of: Grant Evans, Asia's Cultnral Mosnic: An Anthropological Introduction
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age
Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Social Organization
Review of: Emiko Ōnuki-Tierney, Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time
Review of: Sōgawa Tsuneo 寒川恒夫, Sumō no uchūron-Juryoku wo hanatsu rikishitachi 『相撲の宇宙論―呪力をはなつ力士たち』
Review of: Guan Jian, The Indigenous Religion and Theravada Buddhism in Ban Da Tiu: A Dai Lue Village in Yunnan (China)
Review of: Walther Heissig, Schamanen und Geisterbeschwörer in der östlichen Mongolei: Gesammelte Aufsätze
Review of: Jean-Paul Dumont, Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island
Review of: Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, The Maiden of Many Nations: The Skymaiden Who Married a Man from Earth
Review of: Tayanin Damrong and Kristina Lindell, Hunting and Fishing in a Kammu Village
Review of: Patricia Matusky, Malaysian Shadow Play and Music: Continuity of an Oral Tradition
Review of: Tan Sooi Beng, Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera
Review of: Olivier Sevin, L'lndonisie
Review of: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place
Review of: K. Parameswara Aithal, Veda-Laksana Vedic Ancillary Literature: A Descriptive Bibliography
Review of: Thomas B. Coburn, Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devi-Mdhdtmya and a Study of Its Interpretation
Review of: Edward Hower, The Pomegranate Princess and Other Tales from India
Review of: R. K. Narayan, Gods, Demons, and Others
Review of: Erich Brauer, The Jews of Kurdistan
Review of: Roger Schroeder, Initiation and Religion: A Case Study from the Wosera of Papua New Guinea
Review of: Reginetta Haboucha, Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales
Review of: Li Wai-Yee, Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Review of: Po Sung-Nien and David Johnson, Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems: The Iconography of Everyday Life in Village China
Review of: Gerd Wädow, T'ien-fei hsien-sheng lu: Die Aufzeichnungen von der manifestierten Heiligkeit der Himmelspriniessin. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar
Review of: Michael Ashkenazi, Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town
Review of: Amy Catlin, Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Context, and Performance in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Review of: Stan Royal Mumford, Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal
Review of: John A. Bowen, Sumatran Politics and Poetics: Gayo History, 1900-1989
Review of: Wendy Doniger, Purāna Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts
Review of: Ann Grodzins Gold, A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan
Review of: John A. Z'graggen, And Thus Became Man and World
Review of: Joyce Chapman Lebra, Women's Voices in Hawaii
Omocha: Things to Play (or not to Play) With
From Protean Ape to Handsome Saint: The Monkey King
Shamans and Mountain Spirits in Hunza
Folklore and Folklorism in Kazakhstan
A Collection of Jaffna Tamil Riddles from Oral Tradition
Recent PRC Scholarship on Chinese Myths
Amanita muscaria, the Gorgeous Mushroom
Review of: Eugene Van Erven, The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberation in Asia
Review of: Michael Aris, Lamas, Princes, and Brigands: Joseph Rock's Photographs of the Tibetan Borderlands of China
A Turkish Proverb Poem by Serifi
The Book of the Great Practice: The Life of the Mt. Fuji Ascetic Kakugyō Tōbutsu Kū
Kaundinya, Preah Thaong, and the “Nāgī Somā”: Some Aspects of a Cambodian Legend
Icons of the Person: Lacan’s “Imago” in the Yemeni Male’s Tribal Wedding
A Reference Guide to the Nihonshoki Myths
Review of: Sandra Dolby Stahl, Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative
Review of: Andrew Duff-Cooper, Contests
Review of: Alan Dundes, The Evil Eye: A Casebook
Review of: Samuel Denis Fohr, Cinderella's Gold Slipper: Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimm's Tales
Review of: Axel Olrik, Principles for Oral Narrative Research
Review of: Inada Kōji 稲田浩二, Nihon mukashibanashi tsūkan, vol. 28: Mukashibanashi taipu indekusu 『日本昔話通観 28 昔話タイプ・インデックス』
Review of: Iwao Sumiko, The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality
Review of: Kimishima Hisako 君島久子, Nihon minkandenshō no genryū: Nihon kisōbunka no tankyū 『日本民間伝承の源流―日本基層文化の探求』
Review of: Shintani Takanori 新谷尚紀, Ryōbosei to takaikan 『両墓制と他界観』
Review of: John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts
Review of: John E. Myers, The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music
Review of: Sr. Ma. Delia Coronel, Darangen: In Original Maranao Verses
Review of: Francisco R. Demetrio, Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs and Customs
Review of: B. J. Terwiel and Ranoo Wichasin, Thai Ahoms and the Stars: Three Ritual Texts to Ward Off Danger
Review of: Gehan Wijeyewardene and E. C. Chapman, Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought
Review of: Philip Lutgendorf, The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmacaritmānas of Tulsidas
Review of: Helga Teiwes, Kachina Dolls: The Art of Hopi Carvers
The Sāfah as a Narrative Genre
Heartbeat: Conventionality and Originality in Najdi Poetry
Metrical Problems of the Contemporary Bedouin Qasīda: A Linguistic Approach
Debate in the Improvised-Sung Poetry of the Palestinians
The Agricultural Marker Stars in Yemeni Folklore
Bengali Folk Rhymes: An Introduction
Runs in Folktales and Dynamics of Turkish Runs: A Case Study
Banana Republics and V. I. Degrees: Rethinking Indian Folklore in a Postcolonial World
Obituary: Mamitua Saber (1922-1992)
Review of: Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter, Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Review of: Ruth-Inge Heinze and others, Shamans in the 20th Century
Review of: Werner Mezger, Narrenided und Fastnachtsbrauch: Studien zum Fortleben des Mittelalters in der europäischen Festkultur
Review of: Marilyn F. Nefsky, Stone Houses and Iron Bridges: Tradition and the Place of Women in Contemporary Japan
Review of: Hartmut 0.Rotermund, Hōsōgami ou la petite vérole aisément: Matériaux pour l’étude des épidémies dans le Japon des XVIIIe, XIXe siècles
Review of: Can Xue, Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas
Review of: Yen Ping-Chiu, Chinese Demon Tales: Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition
Review of: Norbert R. Adami, Religion und Schamanismus der Ainu auf Sachalin: Ein Beitrag zur histo-rischen Völkerkunde Ostasiens
Review of: Roberte Hamayon, La chasse à l'âme: Esquisse d'une théorie du chamanisme sibérien
Review of: Jane Monnig Atkinson, The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanism
Review of: Alf Hiltebeitel, The Cult of Draupadī 2: On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess
Review of: Heda Jason, Types of Indic Oral Tales: Supplement
Review of: Paula Richman, Many Rāmāyanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
Review of: John D. Smith, The Epic of Pābūji: A Study, Transcription and Translation
Review of: Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Narasimha and Vāmana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective
Review of: Mahrukh Yousuf, Musical Instruments of Pakistan; Mahrukh Yousuf, Folk Motifs of Pakistan; Mahrukh Yousuf, Wood Works of Pakistan
Review of: Ulrich Marzolph, Arabia ridens: Die humoristische Kurzprosa der frühen adab-Literatur im internationalen Traditionsgeflecht
Review of: Saad A. Sowayan, The Arabian Oral Historical Narrative: An Ethnographic and Linguistic Analysis
The Accommodation of Korean Folk Religion to the Religious Forms of Buddhism: An Example of Reverse Syncretism
Folklore Concerning Tsong-kha-pa
Karakunuz: An EarlySettlement of the Chinese Muslims in Russia
Thai Cremation Volumes: A Brief History of a Unique Genre of Literature
Scandalizing the Goddess at Kodungallur
Mongol Creation Stories: Mans, Mongol Tribes, the Natural World, and Mongol Deities
Review of: Michael A. DeMarco, Journal of Asian Martial Arts
Review of: John Miles Foley, Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic
Review of: Morten Nøjgaard, Johan De Lylius, Iøren Piø, Bengt Holbek, The Telling of Stories: Approaches to a Traditional Craft
Review of: Diane Tong, Gypsy Folktales
Review of: Richard Zgusta, Dwelling Space in Eastern Asia
Review of: Margaret Helen Childs, Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan
Review of: Konishi Jinichi, A History of Japanese Literature
Review of: Ronald A. Morse, Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement: The Search for Japan's National Character and Distinctiveness
Review of: Nelly Naumann, Die einheimische Religion Japans
Review of: Benito Ortolani, The Japanee Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism
Review of: Barbara Ruch, Mō hitotsu no chūseizō: Bikuni, otogizōshi, raise 『もう一つの中世像: 比丘尼・御伽草子・来世』
Review of: Anne Walthall, Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories
Review of: Keith Howard, Bands, Songs, and Shamsnistic Rituals: Folk Music in Korean Society
Review of: Fred Jeremy Seligson, Oriental Birth Dreams
Review of: Anne S. Goodrich, Peking Paper Gods: A Look at Home Worship
Review of: Nahal Tajadod, Mani le Bouddha de Lumière: Catéchisme manichéen chinois
Review of: Taro Goh, Sumba Bibliography
Review of: Klaus Sagaster and Helmut Eimer, Religion and Lay Symbolism in the Altaic World and Other Papers
Review of: Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and Laurie J. Sears, Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Review of: Farley P. Richmond, Darius L. Swann, and Philipp B. Zarilli, Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance
A Turkish yemek destani (food poem)
From Folklore to Literate Theater: Unpacking Madame White Snake
Death and Funerals among the Minhe Tu (Monguor)
Indigenization of Rāmāyana in Cambodia
Of Navels and Mountains: A Further Inquiry into the History of an Idea
Review of: Ernest Brandewie, When Giants Walked the Earth: The Life and Times of Wilhelm Schmidt SVD
Review of: Burt Feintuch, The Conservations of Culture: Folklorists and the Public Sector
Review of: David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
Review of: Heda Jason, Whom Does God Favor: The Wicked or the Righteous? The Reward-and- Punishment Fairy Tale
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography
Review of: Fujiwara Yoichi, Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kinki, Kyūshū hōgen jōtai no hōgenchirigakuteki kenkyū 『中国四国近畿九州方言状態の方言地理学的研究』
Review of: Brian Moeran, Language and Popular Culture in Japan
Review of: Herbert E. Plutschow, Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature
Review of: Ann Yonemura, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan
Review of: John S. Rohsenow, A Chinese-English Dictionary of Enigmatic Folk Similes (Xiehouyu)
Review of: Ann Waltner, Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China
Review of: Gehan Wijeyewardene, Ethnic Groups across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia
Review of: Wajuppa Tossa, Phādāēng Nāng Ai: A Translation of a Thai-Isan Folk Epic in Verse
Review of: Peter Metcalf, Where Are You/Spirits: Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer
Review of: Walther Heissig and Klaus Sagaster, Gedanke und Wirkung: Festschrift für Nikolaus Poppe zum 90. Geburtstag
Review of: Walther Heissig, Erzählstoffe rezenter mongolischer Heldendichtung
Review of: Suzanne Hanchett, Coloured Rice: Symbolic Structure in Hindu Festivals
Review of: Micha Joseph Bin Gorion, Mimekor Yisrael
Review of: Aage A. Hansen-Löve, Der russische Symbolismus: System und Entfaltung der poetischen Motive
Woman as Portrayed in Women's Folk Songs of North India
Proverbs as Psychological Interpretations among Vietnamese
Near-Death Folklore in Medieval China and Japan: A Comparative Analysis
Obituary: Fanny Hagin Mayer (1899-1990)
Review of: Kees P. Epskamp, Theatre in Search of Social Change: The Relative Significance of Different Theatrical Approaches
Review of: Himeno Midori 姫野翠, Geinō no jinruigaku 『芸能の人類学』
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature
Review of: Richard M. Swiderski, Lives between Cultures: A Study of Human Nature, Identity and Culture
Review of: Leea Virtanen, "That Must Have Been ESP!" An Examination of Psychic Experiences
Review of: David Gordon White, Myths of the Dog-Man
Review of: Harald Haarmann, Symbolic Values of Foreign Language Use
Review of: Heinz Morioka and Miyoko Sasaki, Rakugo, the Popular Narrative Art of Japan
Review of: Peter H. Lee, A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany
Review of: Robert Joe Cutter, The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
Review of: Catherine Despeux, La moelle du phénix rouge
Review of: Ma Xueyi 馬学義 and Ma Chengjun 馬成俊, Salazu fengsuzhi 『撒拉族風俗誌』; Han Fude 轄福徳, Salazu minjian gushi 『撒拉族民間故事』; Han Fude 轄福徳, Minjian geyao 『民間歌謡』; Han Fude 轄福徳, Minjian yanyu 『民間諺語』
Review of: Yukiko Bischof-Okubo, Übernatürliche Wesen im Glauben der Altvölker Taiwans
Review of: The Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology and the Department for International Cooperation of the Social Science Committee of Viet Nam, Dong Son Drums in Viet Nam
Review of: Kristina Lindell, Jan-Öjvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin, Folk Tales from Kammu-IV: A Master-Teller's Tales
Review of: Georges Condominas, From Lawa to Mon, from Saa' to Thai
Review of: R. L. Mellema, Wayang Puppets: Carving, Colouring, Symbolism
Review of: V. N. Basilov, Drevnie obryady verovaniya i kul'ty narodov Sredneĭ Azii
Review of: Rudolf Kaschewsky and Pema Tsering, Die Eroberung der Burg von Sum-Pa
Review of: Chaitanya Deva, Musical Instruments in Sculpture in Karnataka
Review of: Stefan Fuchs, Das Leben ist ein Tanz
Review of: Ruth Cecily Katz, Arjuna in the Mahābhārata: Where Krishna Is, There Is Victory
Review of: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Śiva’s Warriors: The Basava Purāna of Pālkuriki Somanātha
Folklore, Politics, and Nationalism
Politics and Folktale in the Classical World
Concerning the Traditional Understanding of "Folk Culture" in the German Democratic Republic: A Scholarly-Historical Retrospective
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Umbrella Organizations of German Volkskunde during the Third Reich
National Socialistic Folklore and Overcoming the Past in the Federal Republic of Germany
Momotarō (The Peach Boy) and the Spirit of Japan: Concerning the Function of a Fairy Tale in Japanese Nationalism of the Early Shōwa Age
Cultural Metaphors and Reasoning: Folklore Scholarship and Ideology in Contemporary China
Thoughts on Ebersole's Allegations
Review of: Christie Davies, Ethnic Humor around the World: A Comparative Analysis
Review of: Glenys Davies, Polytheistic Systems
Review of: Alan Dundes, Folklore Matters
Review of: Alan Dundes, Cinderella: A Casebook; Alan Dundes, Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook
Review of: James Jakób Liszka, The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol
Review of: Marianne Rumpf, Rotkäppchen: Eine vergleichende Märchenuntersuchung
Review of: Michael Jeremy and M. E. Robinson, Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home
Review of: Clark W. Sorensen, Over the Mountains are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptation to Rapid Industrialization
Review of: David Johnson, Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual
Review of: Ronald C. Knapp, China's Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture
Review of: Alice M. Terada, Under the Starfruit Tree: Folktales from Vietnam
Review of: José Maceda, Drone and Melody: Musical Thought in Southeast Asia
Review of: Martin Rössler, Die soziale Realität des Rituals
Review of: Roxana Waterson, The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Review of: Galen Rowell, My Tibet. By His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Review of: Stuart H. Blackburn, Peter J. Claus, Joyce B. Flueckiger, and Susan S. Wadley, Oral Epics in India
Review of: Stephen Fuchs, The Korkus of the Vindhya Hills
Review of: Alf Hiltebeitel, The Cult of Draupadī, 1. Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra
Review of: Kirin Narayan, Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
Review of: Herman W. Tull, The Vedic Origins of Karma. Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual
Review of: Haim Schwarzbaum and Eli Yassif, Jewish Folklore between East and West
Wedding, Etiquette, and Traditional Songs of the Minhe Region Tu
New Material on East Mongolian Shamanism
Sri and Sedana and Sita and Rama: Myths of Fertility and Generation
An Alternative to the Sati Model: Perceptions of a Social Reality in Folklore
Malang, Sufis, and Mystics: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of Shamanism in Afghanistan
Changing Patterns of Architecture and Symbolism among the Sa'dan Toraja (Indonesia)
Review of: Victor Raskin, Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
Review of: Garry Chick, Play and Culture.
Review of: Gillian Bennett, Paul S. Smith, and John D. A. Widdowson, Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 2; Gillian Bennett and Paul S. Smith, Monsters with Iron Teeth; Gillian Bennett and Paul S. Smith, The Questing Beast
Review of: Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions
Review of: Carl Lindahl, Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales
Review of: Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent
Review of: H. Byron Earhart, Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Returning to the Center
Review of: Walter Edwards, Modern Japan through its Weddings
Review of: François Macé, Kojiki shinwa no kōzō 『古事記神話の構造』
Review of: Can Xue, Dialogues in Paradise
Review of: Hans Egli, Mirimiringan: Die Mythen und Märchen der Paiwan
Review of: Gail Oman King, The Story of Hua Guan Suo
Review of: Zhao Zongfu 趙宗福, Huaer tonglun 『花?通論』; Zhou Juangu 周娟姑 and Zhang Gengyou 張更有, Qinghai chuantong minjian gegu jingxuan 『青海伝統民間歌曲精選』
Review of: I. M. Suslov, Karl H. Menges, Materialien zum Schamanismus der Ewenki-Tungusen an der mittleren und unteren Tunguska
Review of: Antoon Postma, Annotated Mangyan Bibliography 1570-1988
Review of: Friedrich Seltmann, Die Kalang: Eine Volksgruppe von Java und ihre Stamm-Mythe
Review of: Walter O. Kaelber, Tapta-Marga: Asceticism and Initiation in Vedic India
Review of: June McDaniel, The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
Review of: Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Poems to Śiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints
Review of: Traude Pillai-Vetschera, Indische Märchen: Der Prinz aus der Mangofrucht
Review of: Arvind Sharma, Ajit Ray, Alaka Hejib, and Katherine K. Young, Sati: Historical and Phenomenological Essays
Review of: Kamil V. Zvelebil, Two Tamil Folktales: The Story of King Matanakāma, The Story of the Peacock Rāvana
Review of: Sherry B. Ortner, High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
Review of: George Van Driem, A Grammar of Limbu
Review of: W. L. Heston and Mumtaz Nasir, The Bazaar of the Storytellers
Liminal Experiences of Miyako Shamans: Reading a Shaman’s Diary
Divinity and Salvation: The Great Goddesses of China
Study of Israelite and Jewish Oral and Folk Literature: Problems and Issues
A Legend of the Subanen "Buklog"
Obituary: Wolfram Eberhard (1909-1989)
Review of: Klaus Beitl and Eva Kausel, Methoden der Dokumentation zur Gegenwartsvolkskunde
Review of: Philip V. Bohlman, The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
Review of: Ching-I Tu, Tradition and Creativity
Review of: Georges Dumézil, The Destiny of a King
Review of: Theodore C. Bestor, Neighborhood Tokyo
Review of: Stewart Elliott Guthrie, A Japanese New Religion: Risshō Kōsei-kai in a Mountain Hamlet*
Review of: H. D. Harootunian, Things Seen and Unseen
Review of: Edward Kamens, The Three Jewels
Review of: Katsu Kokichi, Musui's Story
Review of: Josef A. Kyburz, Cultes et croyances au Japon
Review of: Livia Köhn, Seven Steps to the Tao: Sima Chengzhen's Zuowanglun
Review of: Walther Heissig, Fragen der mongolischen Heldendichtung
Review of: Morris Rossabi, Khubilai Khan
Review of: Saveros Pou, Guirlande de Cpāp'
Review of: Amin Sweeney, A Full Hearing
Review of: Tan Chee Beng, The Baba of Melaka: Culture and Identity of a Chinese Peranakan Community in Malaysia
Review of: Stuart H. Blackburn, Singing of Birth and Death
Review of: Robert Deliège, Les Paraiyars du Tamil Nadu
Review of: Paula Richman, Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text
Review of: Richard M. Swiderski, The Blood Weddings
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, The Toda of South India
Review of: Yitzhak Avishur, Women's Folk Songs in Judaeo-Arabic from Jews in Iraq
Review of: Heda Jason, Folktales of the Jews of Iraq
Childhood and Newar Tradition: Chittadhar Hrdaya's Jhī Macā
Of Gods, Trees and Boundaries: Divine Conservation in Rajasthan
Chinese Mythology in the Context of Hydraulic Society
The Grand Cañao: Ethnic and Ritual Dilemmas in an Upland Philippine Tourist Festival
Aspect of Dual Symbolic Classification: Right and Left in a Japanese Kyū-Dōjō
Review of: Klaus Beitl, Gegenwartsvolkskunde und Jugendkultur
Review of: Kendall Blanchard and Alyce Taylor Cheska, The Anthropology of Sport: An Introduction
Review of: Alan Dundes, Parsing Through Customs
Review of: Alan Dundes, The Flood Myth
Review of: William A. Graham, Beyond the Written Word
Review of: Emily Lyle, Duality
Review of: Emily Lyle, Kingship
Review of: Charles Macdonald, De la hutte au palais
Review of: Dietz Rüdiger Moser, Fastnacht-Fasching-Karneval
Review of: Klaus Antoni, Miwa–der heilige Trank
Review of: Laurel Kendall and Griffin Dix, Religion and Ritual in Korean Society
Review of: Mamitua Saber and Ma. Delia Coronel, Darangen
Review of: Jutta Daszenies, Geistervorstellungen im javanischen Überzeugungssystem
Review of: Ward Keeler, Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves
Review of: Lawrence A. Babb, Redemptive Encounters
Review of: Katherine P. Ewing, Sharī'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam
Review of: Ann Grodzins Gold, Fruitful Journeys
Review of: Paul Hockings, Counsel from the Ancients
Review of: Nita Kumar, The Artisans of Banaras
Review of: Jerome W. Clinton, The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám from the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi
Folklore and Folklife of Thailand: Foreword
Different Family Roles, Different Interpretations of Thai Folktales
The Jataka Stories and Laopuan: Worldview
Relevance of the Textual and Contextual Analyses in Understanding Folk Performance in Modern Society: A Case of Southern Thai Shadow Puppet Theatre
Mental Template: The Case of the Tai Lao Pha Sin
Cultures and Sports Preference
The "Ālu Kurumba Rāmāyana": The Story of Rāma as Narrated by a South Indian Tribe
The Calendar of Village Festivals: Japan
Review of: D. L. Ashliman, A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System
Review of: John Miles Foley, The Theory of Oral Composition
Review of: John Miles Foley, Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry
Review of: Reimund Kvideland and Rorum Selberg, Papers III and IV: The 8th Congress for the International Society for Folk Narrative Research
Review of: Kurosawa Fumiko, Pfauendarstellungen in Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Japans
Review of: Laurel Kendall, The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman
Review of: Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon, Agnes Smedley
Review of: Thonevath Pou, Wolfgang Ulland, and Guechse Yim, Kambodschanische Kultur, No. 2, 1988
Review of: Penelope Graham, Iban Shamanism
Review of: Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson, Phun Thin-Phun Than: Miti Mai Khong Katichonwittaya Lae Withi Chiwit Saman Khong Phun Ban-Phun Muang
Review of: Jean Mulholland, Medicine, Magic and Evil Spirits
Review of: Daniel Dubuisson, La légende royale dans l'Inde ancienne, Rāma et le Rāmāyana
Review of: Lee Siegel, Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India
Review of: Charlotte Vaudeville, Bārahmāsā in Indian Literatures
Review of: Sekundar Amanolahi and W. M. Thackston, Tales from Luristan (Matalyā Lurissu)
The Impact of Tourism on Japanese Kyōgen: Two Case Studies
Mirror of Auras: Chen Tuan on Physiognomy
Sohar: Childbirth Songs of Joy
Torii–Japanese Shrine Gates: A Call for Cooperation
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship
Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry
Review of: Ōbayashi Taryō 大林太良, Shinwa no keifu- Nihon shinwa no genryū o saguru 『神話の系譜-日本神話の源流をさぐる』
Review of: Ōbayashi Taryō 大林太良, Araki Hiroyuki 荒木博之 et al. , Minkan setsuwa no kenkyū–Nihon to sekai (Seki Keigo hakase beiju kinen ronbun shū) 『民間説話の研究-日本と世界 (関敬吾博士米寿記念論文集) 』
Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
Review of: C. Ouwehand, Hateruma: Socio-Religious Aspects of a South Ryukyuan Island Culture
Review of: Royall Tyler, Japanese Tales
Review of: Judith M. Boltz, A Survey of Taoist Literature, Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Review of: Malon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from Sun Francisco Chinatown
Review of: Liu Mau-Tsai, Der Tiger mit dem Rosenkranz: Rätsel aus China
Review of: Stephen R. Mackinnon and Oris Friesen, China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1940s
Review of: P. Steven Sangren, History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Review of: Karl Reichl, Rawšan: Ein usbekisches mündliches Epos
Review of: Solange Thierry, Le Cambodge des contes
Review of: Viggo Brun and Trond Schumacher, Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand
Review of: Philip L. Thomas, Like Tigers Around a Piece of Meat
Review of: James J. Fox, To Speak in Pairs
Review of: Hank Heifetz and Velcheru Narayana Rao, For the Lord of the Animals–Poems from the Telugu
Review of: Eveline Meyer, Ankālaparamēcuvari: A Goddess of Tamilnadu, Her Myths and Cult
Review of: Hilde Link, Der Olofat-Zyklus in der Erzähltradition Mikronesiens
The Social World and Play Life of Thai Muslim Adolescents
The Thai Menora in Malaysia: Adapting to the Penang Chinese Community
The Place of Animism within Popular Buddhism in Cambodia: The Example of the Monastery
Spirits of the Earth and Spirits of the Water: Chthonic Forces in the Mountains of West Java
The Monsoon Festival Teej in Rajasthan
Northists and Southists: A Folklore of Kerala Christians
Dr. Ambedkar: The Hero of the Mahars, Ex-Untouchables of India
Yasukuni-Jinja and Folk Religion: The Problem of Vengeful Spirits
Mura-zakai–The Japanese Village Boundary and its Symbolic Interpretation
May Fourth Intellectuals and Chinese Folk Literature
Review of: Anthony R. Walker, Contribution to Southeast Asian Ethnography
Review of: Umesao Tadao 梅棹忠夫 and Moriya Takeshi 守屋毅, Matsuri wa kamigami no pafōmansu: geinō o meguru nihon to higashi ajia 『祭りは神々のパフォーマンス–芸能をめぐる日本と東アジア』
Review of: Anne Walthall, Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan
Review of: Isidor Levin, Märchen vom Dach der Welt: Überlieferungen der Pamirvölker
Review of: Maria Luisa Lumicao-Lora, Gaddang Literature
Review of: Richard Davis, Muang Metaphysics
Review of: Gehan Wijeyewardene, Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behavior
Review of: Roland Werner, Bomoh/Dukun: The Practices and Philosophies of the Traditional Malay Healer; Roland Werner,Bomoh-Poyang: Traditional Medicine and Ceremonial Art of the Aborigines of Malaysia
Review of: Rita Smith Kipp and Susan Rodgers, Indonesian Religions in Transition
Review of: Robert Wessing, The Soul of Ambiguity: The Tiger in Southeast Asia
Review of: Carsten Bregenhøj, RgVeda as the Key to Folklore
Review of: Donna M. Wulff, Drama as a Mode of Religious Realization
Review of: Padraic Colum, Legends of Hawaii
Review of: Haim Schwarzbaum, Biblical and Extra-Biblical Legends in Islamic Folk-Literature
Review of: Colin Quigley, Close to the Floor: Folk Dance in Newfoundland
Baithak: Exorcism in Peshawar (Pakistan)
Metaphor and Illness Classification in Traditional Thai Medicine
Demons or Deities?–The Wangye of Taiwan
The Spirit-Captives of Japan's North Country: Nineteenth Century Narratives of the Kamikakushi
The Father, the Son and the Ghoulish Host: A Fairy Tale in Early Sanskrit?
"Folk Literature Run by the Folk ": A New Development in the People's Republic of China
Review of: John Miles Foley, Oral Tradition
Review of: Barbara A. Babcock, Guy Monthan, and Doris Monthan, The Pueblo Storyteller
Review of: James R. Dow and Rolf W. Brednich, Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie/International Folklore Bibliography/Bibliographie Internationale d'Ethnographie für die Jahre 1981 und 1982 mit Nachträgen für die vorausgehenden Jahre
Review of: Vladimir Propp, Theory and History of Folklore
Review of: Stephen Field, Tian Wen: A Chinese Book of Origin
Review of: Christian Jochim, Chinese Religions
Review of: Hubert Seiwert, Volksreligion und nationale Tradition in Taiwan: Studien zur regionalen Religionsgeschichte einer chinesischen Provinz
Review of: Robert P. Weller, Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion
Review of: Anne-Victoire Charrin, Le petit monde du Grand Corbeau
Review of: Walther Heissig, Fragen der mongolischen Heldendichtung
Review of: Vicente Marasingan, A Banahaw Guru: Symbolic Deeds of Agapito Illustrisimo
Review of: Brenda Johns and David Strecker, The Hmong World 1
Review of: Terry E. Miller, Traditional Music of the Lao: Kaen Playing and Mawlum Singing in Northeast Thailand
Review of: Roland Mischung, Religion und Wirklichkeitsvorstellungen in einem Karen-Dorf Nordwest-Thailands
Review of: Aroonrut Wichienkeeo and Gehan Wijeyewardene, The Laws of King Mangrai (Mangrayathammasart)
Review of: Wolfgang Marschall, Der grosse Archipel: Schweizer ethnologische Forschungen in Indonesien
Review of: S. A. Niessen, Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles
Review of: William G. Archer, Songs for the Bride
Review of: Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, and Jawaharlal Handoo, Folktales of India
Review of: Friedrich Seltmann, Schattenspiel in Kerala
Review of: Soumen Sen, Folklore in North-East India
Review of: Jan Kappert, Islamic Legends, Histories of the Heroes, Saints and Prophets of Islam
Review of: Richard M. Swiderski, Voices: An Anthropologist's Dialogue With an Italian-American Festival
Miyako Theology: Shamans' Interpretation of Traditional Beliefs
Cultural Tensions as Factors in the Structure of a Festival Parade
The Swan-Maiden Revisited: Religious Significance of "Divine-Wife" Folktales with Special Reference to Japan
The Fairy Girl and the Shepherd: A Turkish Ballad
Review of: Wolfgang Brückner and Klaus Beitl, Volkskunde als akademische Disziplin
Review of: Pack Carnes, Fable Scholarship
Review of: Martin S. Day, The Many Meanings of Myth
Review of: Edward Shils, Tradition
Review of: Archer Taylor, The Proverb and An Index to "The Proverb"
Review of: Helen Hardacre, The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority: The Preservation of Ethnic Identity
Review of: James Huntley Grayson, Early Buddhism and Christianity in Korea
Review of: Laurel Kendall and Mark Peterson, Korean Women
Review of: Kubo Noritada 窪徳忠, Dōkyō no kamigami 『道教の神々』
Review of: Shao Wen Liang 邵文良, Chūgoku kodai no spōtsu 『中国古代のスポーツ』
Review of: Walther Heissig, Tsakhar-Märchen
Review of: Linda Wai Ling Young, Shan Chrestomathy
Review of: Tan Chee-Beng, The Development and Distribution of Dejiao Associations in Malaysia and Singapore
Review of: Christiane Franke-Benn, Die Wayangwelt: Namen und Gestalten im javanischen Schattenspiel; Friedrich Seltmann, Schattenspiel und Marionettenspiel in Savantvadi
Review of: Mahipal Bhuriya, Folk-Songs of the Bhils
Review of: J. L. Brockington, Righteous Rāma
Review of: Charles Capwell, The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
Review of: Franklin Edgerton, The Elephant-Lore of the Hindus
Review of: Onkar Prasad, Santal Music
Review of: P.Solomon Raj, A Christian Folk-Religion in India
Review of: John LeRoy, Kewa Tales; John LeRoy, Fabricated World
Review of: Julia E. Miller, Modern Greek Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography
Feminine Motifs in Bodhidharma Symbology in Japan
Reflections Upon a Brick Wall, Dillweed, Mugwort Bread and Californian Car-Lore
On Human Values in Philippine Epics
A Textbook of Physiognomy: The Tradition of the Shenxiang quanbian
A Parallel Motif in Lepcha and Barela-Bhilala Mythology
Triplicated Triplets: The Number Nine in the Secret History of the Mongols
Review of: Alan Dundes, Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth
Review of: Benjamin Goldberg, The Mirror and Man
Review of: Matti Kuusi, Proverbia Septentrionalia
Review of: Paul Smith, Perspectives on Contemporary Legend
Review of: George A. DeVos, The Incredibility of Western Prophets
Review of: Brian Moeran, Ōkubo Diary
Review of: Robert E. Morrell, Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū)
Review of: Laurel Kendall, Shamans, Housewifes, and other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Shamanism
Review of: Roman Malek, Das Chai-chieh lu. Materialien zur Liturgie im Taoismus
Review of: Owen Lattimore and Fujiko Isono, The Diluv Khutagt
Review of: S. Ju. Nekljudov and Ž. Tömörceren, Mongolische Erzählungen über Geser; Nikolaus Poppe, Mongolische Epen XI
Review of: Clement Wein, Raja of Madaya
Review of: Carol Rubenstein, The Honey Tree Song: Poems and Chants of Sarawak Dayaks
Review of: John R. Clammer, Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography
Only Half-Way to Godhead: The Chinese Geomancer as Alchemist and Cosmic Pivot
An Asian Story of the Oedipus Type
Banishing of Illnesses into Effigies in Mongolia
Retrospective Comprehension: Japanese Foretelling Songs
The Malay-Tamil Cultural Contacts with Special Reference to the Festival of Mandi Safar
Verse Narratives from the Bazaar of the Storytellers
Patron Saints and Pagan Ghosts: The Pairing of Opposites
Review of: Roger Caillois, The Mystery Novel
Review of: Felicia G. Bock, Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan
Review of: Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra, Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan: The “Dainihonkoku hokekyōkenki” of Priest Chingen
Review of: Fanny Hagin Mayer, Where Folk Tales are Treasured: Fifteen Tales from the Japanese of Mizusawa Kenichi
Review of: Brian Moeran, Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan
Review of: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Review of: Robert J. Smith and Ella Lury Wiswell, The Women of Suye Mura
Review of: Lee Duhyun 李杜鉉, Han’guk minsokhak non’go 『韓國民俗學論考』
Review of: Laurence G. Thompson, Chinese Religion in Western Languages: A Comprehensive and Classified Bibliography of Publications in English, French and German through 1980
Review of: Anton Quack, Priesterinnen, Heilerinnen, Schamaninnen ?
Review of: N. H. Van Straten,Concepts of Health, Disease and Vitality in Traditional Chinese Society
Review of: Walther Heissig, Geser-Studien: Untersuchungen zu den Erzählstoffen in den"neuen " Kapiteln des mongolischen Geser-Zyklus
Review of: Greg Bailey, The Mythology of Brahmā
Review of: Baru Candīdāsa, Singing the Glory of Lord Kriskna: The Śrīkrsnakīrtana
Review of: A.W. Sadler, In Quest of the Historical Buddha and The White Cranes of Sri Ramakrishna
Review of: John S. Strong, The Legend of King Aśoka
Review of: Ved Prakash Vatuk, Studies in Indian Folk Traditions
Review of: Siegfried Lienhard, Songs of Nepal
Review of: Ulrich Marzolph, Typologie des persischen Volksmärchens
Philippine Folktales: An Introduction
Mandegan: Introduced and translated
Gugud: A Bukidnon Oral Tradition
The Concept of Time Among the Mangyans
The Pukhtun Tapos: From Biography to Autobiography
The Episode of Maiyarāb in the Thai Rāmakīen and its Possible Relationship to Tamil Folklore
The Disabled in Popular Narrative
Review of: Modern Language Association of America, 1983 MLA International Bibliography
Review of: John Miles Foley,Oral-formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
Review of: Jacob Raz, Audience and Actors: A Study of Their Interaction in the Japanese Theatre
Review of: Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment
Review of: Ward Geddes, Kara monogatari:Tales of China
Review of: Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan.
Review of: Wolfram Eberhard, Lexikon chinesischer Symbole
Review of: Procédés secrets du Joyau Magique
Review of: John A. Grim, The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing
Review of: Damiana L. Eugenio, Philippine Folk Literature: An Anthology
Review of: Clement Wein, The Four Friends
Review of: Stephen A. Wurm and Hattori Shirō, Language Atlas of the Pacific
Review of: Jeannine Koubi, Rambu solo', “la fumée descend”
Review of: Haim Schwarzbaum, The Mishle Shu'alim (Fox Fables) of Rabbi Berechiah Ha-Nakdan
Analysis of Cinderella Motifs, Italian and Japanese
A Comparative Study of Three Chinese and North-American Indian Folktale Types
Sh❠Laˆ Te Ve: The Building of a Merit Shelter Among the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) of the Northern Thai Uplands
Framed Narrative and the Dramatized Audience in a Tamil Buddhist Epic
The Other Woman in Indian Folklore
Review of: Francis A. De Caro, Women and Folklore: A Bibliographic Survey
Review of: Victor Turner and Yamaguchi Masao, Misemono no Jinruigaku 『見世物の人類学』
Review of: Fukuda Ajio 福田アジオ and Miyata Noboru 宮田登, Nihon Minzokugaku Gairon 『日本民俗学概論』
Review of: Alexandre Guillemoz, Les algues, les anciens, les dieux: La vie et la religion d'un village de petcheurs-agriculteurs coréens
Review of: Jan Walls and Yvonne Walls, Classical Chinese Myths
Review of: Leonardo N. Mercado, Research Methods in Philippine Context
Review of: Revel-Macdonald Nicole, Kudaman: Une épopée palawan chantée par Usuj
Review of: K. A. McElhanon, Legends from Papua New Guinea; K. A. McElhanon, From the Mouths of Ancestors
Review of: Jacques Lemoine and Donald Gibson, Yao Ceremonial Paintings
Review of: Kristina Lindell, Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin, Folk Tales from Kammu III: Pearls of Kammu Literature
Review of: Tan Sooi Beng, Ko-tai: A new form of Chinese urban street theatre in Malaysia
Review of: E. Alan Morinis, Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: A Case Study of West Bengal
Review of: Bonnie C. Wade, Performing Arts in India: Essays on Music, Dance and Drama
Review of: Ministry of Education and Culture, Our Cultural Fabric: Puppet Theater in India
Review of: Ivan Balassa and Gyula Ortutay, Ungarische Volkskunde
Japanese Myths of Descent from Heaven and Their Korean Parallels
Religious Syncretism in the Shilla Period: The Relationship Between Esoteric Buddhism and Korean Primeval Religion
The Concept of Ancestors and Ancestor Worship in Korea
Wives, Lesser Wives, and Ghosts: Supernatural Conflict in a Korean Village
Male and Female in Korean Folk Belief
Chaesu Kut: A Korean Shamanistic Performance
The Aesthetics of a Contemporary Chinese Shadow Theater
Shi¯Nyi Lon¯: Great Merit Days among the Lahu Nyi (Red Lahu) of North Thailand
Review of: Alan Dundes, Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook
Review of: Atelia Clarkson and Gilbert B. Cross, World Folktales
Review of: Milan Stanek, Geschichten der Kopfjäger: Mythos und Kultur der Iatmul auf Papua-Neuguinea
Review of: W. Michael Kelsey, Konjaku Monogatari-shū
Review of: William J. Rathbun, Yō no Bi: The Beauty of Japanese Folk Art
Review of: Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim Janelli, Ancestor Worship and Korean Society
Review of: Kim T'aegon 金泰坤, Korean Shamanism, Illustrated『韓国巫俗図録』 Hanguk joasog dorok.
Review of: Mellie Leandicho Lopez, A Study of Philippine Games
Review of: Jean Mottin, 55 Chants d'amour Hmong Blanc
Review of: Peter Metcalf, A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from its Rituals
Review of: Albert Leemann and Werner Roll, Lombok: Bevölkerungsstrukturierung gemäss Religion und Adat
Review of: Richard Emmert, Hasumoto Izumi, Katsushita Hitoshi and Okada Maki, Dance and Music in South Asian Drama: Chhau, Mahākālī Pyākhan and Yakshagāna
The Kammu People in China and Their Social Customs
The Music of the Lisu of Northern Thailand
Customs and Rites Connected with Pregnancy and Childbirth in a Northeastern Thai Village
The Relationship Between Muslim Peasant Religion and Urban Religion in Songkhla
Genealogy and History: The Yu of Yi-mei and Chang-wan in Kwangtung's Xin-hui xian
The Blend of Sanskrit Myth and Tamil Folklore in Thiru-murugātru-p-padai
Review of: Robert A. Georges and Stephen Stern, American and Canadian Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore
Review of: Wilhelm E. Mühlmann, Die Metamorphose der Frau: Weiblicher Scharnanismus und Dichtung
Review of: Venetia J. Newall, Folklore Studies in the Twentieth Century
Review of: Klaus J. Antoni, Der weisse Hase von Inaba: Vom Mythos zum Miirchen
Review of: Nold Egenter, Göttersitze aus Schilf und Bambus
Review of: Albert G. Hess and Murayama Shigeyo, Everyday Law in Japanese Folk Art: Daily Life in Meiji Japan
Review of: Liu Senhower 劉文三, Taiwan shenxiang yishu 『台湾神像藝術』; Gary Seaman, Temple Organization in a Chinese Village
Review of: Brenda E. F. Beck, The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic
Review of: Jiwan Pani, Ravana Chhaya; S. S. S. Karyala Thakur, Folk Theatre of Himachal Pradesh
Review of: Gene H. Roghair, The Epic of Palnādu: A Study and Translation of Palnāti Vīrula Katha, a Telugu Oral Tradition from Andhra Pradesh, India
Review of: Yona Sabar, The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology
The Myth of the Descent of the Heavenly Grandson.
The Fate of Nagoya's Mechanical Festival Floats.
Tossing the Tiger: Performance in the Malay Wayang
Chinese Religion in Malaysia: A General View.
Indian Numskull Tales: Form and Meaning.
Review of: Dan Ben-Amos, Folklore in Context
Review of: Baladji Mundkur, The Cult of the Serpent
Review of: Mary Cummings, The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia
Review of: Yamada Ryūji 山田隆治 and Shiratori Yoshirō 白鳥芳郎, Dentō syūkyō to minkan shinkō 『伝統宗教と民間信仰』 (Major Religions and Folk Belief)
Review of: Gaudenz Domenig, Tektonik im primitiven Dachbau
Review of: Joanne P. Algarin, Japanese Folk Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide
Review of: Taniguchi Yukio 谷口幸男 and Endō Norikatsu 遠藤紀勝, Kamen to Shukussai, Yōroppa no matsuri ni miru shi to saisei 『仮面と祝祭 ヨーロッパの祭にみる死と再生』
Review of: David Arkush, Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China
Review of: Kristina Lindell, The Kammu Year: Its Lore and Music
Review of: Sao Sāimöng Mangrāi, The Pādaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated
Review of: Nigel Philipps, Sijobang: Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra
Review of: Rex A. Casinander, Miner's Folk Songs of Sri Lanka
Review of: Mohan Upreti, Malushahi: The Ballad of Kumaon
Review of: Stephen Fuchs, At the Bottom of Indian Society: The Harijan and Other Low Castes
Review of: G. Whitney Azoy, Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan
Review of: Isidor Levin, Dzhalil Rabiev and Mirra Yavich, Kulliyoti Fol'klori Tojik/Svod Tadzhikskogo Fol'klora
Dholā: A North Indian Folk Genre
Bhojalī: Song, Goddess, Friend a Chhattisgarhi Women's Oral Tradition
Śīt Basant: Oral Tale, Sāngīt, and Kissā
The Emerging Soloist: Kavvālī in Bhatgaon
Indian Folk Traditions and the Modern Theatre
The Origin of the Ganapati Cult
Outer Marks, Inner Grace: Flannery O'Connor's Tattooed Christ
Review of: Inoura Yoshinobu and Kawatake Toshio, The Traditional Theater of Japan
Review of: Emiko Ōnuki-Tierney, Illness and healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A symbolic interpretation
Review of: Juliet Piggott, Japanese Mythology
Review of: Laurence A. Schneider, A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent
Review of: Alvin P. Cohen, Tales of Vengeful Souls: A Sixth Century Collection of Chinese Avenging Ghost Stories
Review of: Kristofer Schipper, Le corps taoiste, corps physique-corps social
Review of: Charles R. Bawden, Mongolische Epen X: Eight North Mongolian epic poems
Review of: Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, An Anthology of Ilianen Manobo Folktales
Review of: Morice Vanoverbergh, English-Kankanay Thesaurus
Review of: Francisco R. Demetrio, Myths and Symbols, Philippines
Review of: Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson, Children's Play and Games in Rural Thailand: A Study in Enculturation and Socialization
Review of: Jowa Imre Kis-Jovak, Autochthone Architektur auf Siberut
Review of: Margaret Stutley, Ancient Indian Magic and Folklore: An Introduction
Death and Transformation: The Presentation of Death in East and Southeast Asia.
Viewing the Hana Matsuri at Shimoawashiro, Aichi Prefecture.
The Muslim Farmers of Bangladesh and Allah’s Creation of the World.
The Folk Festival of Jhoñjhī-Tesū
Obituary: Richard M. Dorson (1916-1981).
Sītā’s Birth and Parentage in the Rāma Story.
Review of: Venetia Newall, International Folklore Review.
Review of: Iwai Hiromi 岩井宏美, Shinsen kami to hito to no kyōen 『神饌神と人との饗宴』
Review of: Dieter Eikemeier, Documents from Changjwa-ri: A Further Approach to the Analysis of Korean Villages
Review of: Lee Jung Young, Korean Shamanistic Rituals
Review of: Sven Broman, Chinese Shadow Theatre
Review of: J. Kasem Sibunruang, Thai Folk-tales; J. Kasem Sibunruang, Wessandorn the Charitable Prince
Review of: Sevyan I. Vainshtein, Nomads of South Siberia: The Pastoral Economies of Tuva
Review of: Günter Unbescheid, Kānphatā: Untersuchungen zu Kult, Mythologie und Geschichte śivaitischer Tantriker in Nepal
Sakahagi: The “Reverse Flaying” of the Heavenly Piebald Horse.
Community Ritual and Social Structure in Village Korea.
Amnesia and Remembrance in a Hindu Theory of History.
“Baba Taraknath”: A Case of Continuity and Development in the Folk Tradition of West Bengal, India.
Puyuma Ethnohistory and Linguistics: A Review Article.
Review of: Kinaadman: A Journal of the Southern Philippines.
Review of: Winston Davis, Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan
Review of: Patia R. Isaku, Mountain Storm, Pine Breeze: Folk Song in Japan
Review of: Nold Egenter, Bauform als Zeichen und Symbol; Walther Heissig, Die mongolischen Epen: Bezüge, Sinndeutung und Überlieferung
Review of: Matti Sarmela, Paikalliskulttuurin Rakennemuutos
Review of: Amin Sweeney, Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature
Review of: Charles F. Keyes, Ethnic Change; C. Hooykaas, Drawings of Balinese Sorcery; Stella Kramrisch, The Presence of Śiva; John Stratton Hawley, At Play with Krishna, Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindavan; Ana Libera Dallapiccola, The Stūpa: Its Religious, Historical and Architectural Significance
Public Aspirations in the New Year Couplets.
The Nine Imperial Gods in Singapore
The Sacred Trees Around Goshonai / Japan.
The Raging Deity in Japanese Mythology.
A Preliminary Examination of the Omamori Phenomenon.
Review of: Asian Folklore; Kenneth S. Goldstein and Neil V. Rosenberg, Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert, a Festschrift
Review of: Arthur Kleinman, Peter Kunstadter, E. Russell Alexander and James L. Gale, Culture and Healing in Asian Societies, Anthropological, Psychiatric and Public Health Studies
Review of: K. P. Bahadur, One Hundred Rural Song of India
Review of: Maria-Verena Blümmel, Hofzeremonien im japanischen Mittelalter
Review of: Youngsook Kim Harvey, Six Korean Women: The Socialization of Shamans
Review of: Walther Heissig, Mongolische Epen 8; Nikolaus Poppe, Mogolische Epen 9
Review of: Edwin Bernbaum, The way to shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom beyond the Himalayas; Andras Höfer, The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal; Vilma May A. Fuentes and Edito T. De La Cruz, A Treasure of Mandaya and Mansaka Folk Literature
On the Meaning of Masked Dances in Kagura.
Fauna and Flora in Japanese Folktales.
A Taiwanese Puppeteer and his Theater.
Islam and the Malay Shadow Play.
Yanagi Muneyoshi and the Japanese Folk Craft Movement.
Review of: Moriya Toshihiko, Nihon Ryōiki no Kenkyū; Moriya Toshihiko, Zoku Nihon Ryōiki no Kenkyū; Jan Walls and Yvonne, West Lake: A Collection of Folktales.
Review of: Ting Nai-Tung, A Type Index of Chinese Folktales; Choi In-Hak, A Type Index of Korean Folktales.
Review of: László Lörincz, Mongolische Märchentypen.
Review of: Kristina Lindell, Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin, Folk Tales from Kammu 2: A Story-Teller’s Tales.
Review of: Kinaadman: A Journal of the Southern Philippines; Ved Prakash Vatuk, Studies in Indian Folk Tradition; Alan Dundes, Essays in Folkloristics; Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion; Michael R. Saso, The Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang.
Obituary: Dr. Matthias Eder, S. V. D. (1902-1980).
The Heavenly Rock-Grotto Myth and the Chinkon Ceremony.
Some Features of the Domestic Cult Organisation in the Southern Ryukyus and Taiwan.
Chinese Folk Medicine: A Study of the Shan-hai Ching.
On the Dramatic Fertility Rituals of Anatolian Turkey.
Shamanism as Reflected in the Folktale.
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Malayalis of the Pachaimalais.
Telugu Folk Additions to Maha Bharatha.
Grassroots Renaissance: The Increasing Importance of Folk Media in Third World Nations.
Review of: A. L. Becker and Aram A. Yengoyan, The Imagination of Reality; Yusuf Ibish and Ileana Marculescu, Contemplation and Action in World Religions; K. B. Das and L. K. Mahapatra, Folk Lore of Orissa; Anwarul Karim, The Bauls of Bangladesh; K. M. Ashraful Aziz, Kinship in Bangladesh; Gernot Prunner, Meisterwerke Burmanischer Lackkunst; Jutta Bewig, Chinesische Papierschnitte; Gernot Prunner, Papiergötter aus China.
Review of: A. Dhamotharan, Tamil Dictionaries; Hans Frey, Der Indisch-Pakistanische Konflikt in den Jahren 1958-1968
Review of: Jung Young Lee, Sokdam: Capsules of Eastern Wisdom
Review of: Jos. Huppertz und Herm. Köster, Kleine China-Beiräge
Review of: Joachim Deppert, Rudras Geburt
Review of: Carl Hefner, Rites of Origin: A Taoist Celebration
Space and Time in Ryukyuan Cosmology.
Two Categories of Chinese Ancestors as Determined by Their Malevolence.
Royal Style in Village Context: Translation and Interpretation of a Thai Tonsure Text.
On the Human Soul: Reports from the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.
Dwellings in Ancient Japan: Shapes and Cultural Context.
Review of: Veronika Ronge, Das tibetische Handwerkertum vor 1959; Anna-Leena Siikala, The Rite Technique of the Siberian Shaman
Review of: Hans-Peter Laqueur, Zur kulturgeschichtlichen Stellung des türkischen Ringkampfes einst und jetzt; Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan; Kinaadman: A Journal of the Southern Philippines
Local Legends of the Gempei War: Reflections of Mediaeval Japanese History.
Filipino Myths of Death and Speciation: Content and Structure.
Myths and Ritual of Rice Spirits Bambarazon among the Rungus.
Mayndala: A Legend and Possession Cult of Tulunad, South Kanara, India.
Bird Lore in Southwestern Iran.
Review of: Alan Dundes, Varia Folklorica
Review of: Felix J. Oinas; Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics; Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed, Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a Village in North India
On the Dramatic Tradition in Kagura
Rakugo: Professional Japanese Storytelling.
The Functional Value of Ignorance at a Koran Seance.
Thailand: The Kammu Language and Folklore Project.
Review of: Ōyama Mahito , Watashi wa goze. Sugimoto Kikue kōden; Saitō Shinichi, Goze-Mōmoku no tabi geinin; John Wm. Schiffeler, The Legendary Creatures of the Shan Hai Ching; Felix J. Oinas, Folklore, Nationalism, and Politics; Veronika Veit, Mongolische Epen
Review of: Metin And, Turkish Dancing; Andreas Bsteh, Der Gott der Christentums und des Islams.
Origin and Growth of the Worship of Amaterasu.
Death and Abuse in Marriage Laments: The Curse of Chinese Brides.
Towards an Understanding of Philippine Myths.
Structural Analysis of Folktales: Techniques and Methodology.
Women Not To Marry: A Thai Father's Instructions to His Son.
Vrat: Ceremonial Vows of Women in Gujarat, India.
The Folk Hero and Class Interests in Tamil Heroic Ballads.
Review of: Kristna Lindell, A Kammu Story-Listener’s Tales; Dieter B. Kapp, Ein Menschenschöpfungsmythos der Mundas und seine Parallelen; Nai-tung Ting and Lee-Hsia Ting, Chinese Folk Narratives.
The Miyaza and the Fisherman: Ritual Status in Coastal Villages of Wakayarna Prefecture.
Categories of Okinawan “Ancestors” and the Kinship System.
Hsu Wen-ch’ang: An Archetypal Clever Rascal in Chinese Popular Culture.
The Ranking of Gods in Chinese Folk Religion.
Nature and Function of Some Therapeutic Techniques in Thailand.
A Methodology for the Collection of the Sinhala Ritual.
Marriage Customs of Christian Son Kolis.
Review of: Abstracts of Popular Culture
Review of: E. Arsenio Manuel, Tuwaang Attends a Wedding; Felixberto C. Sta. Maria, The Philippines in Song and Prose Ballad.
Review of: Viggo Brun, Sug, the Trickster who Fooled the Monk
A Chinese Temple Keeper Talks About Chinese Folk Religion.
The Changing Tastes of the Gods: Chinese Temple Fairs in Malaysia.
Premchand’s Use of Folklore in His Short Short Stories.
Some Goddess Rituals in Non-Narrative Folk Song in India.
Social Aspects of Sadani Oral Literature.
The Marriage Ceremonies of the Christian Paraiyans of the Kumbakonam Area, India.
A Collection of Yapese Riddles.
Beleifs,Customs and Rituals in the Lower Yuat River Area,Northwest New Guinea.
Review of: Sutō Isao 須藤功, Nishiura no Matsuri 『西浦のまつり』; Niwa Motoji 丹羽基二, Kamon 『家門』; Otto Bischofberger, Heil und Unheil: Gebete und Riten der Amis von Formosa
Flannery O’Connor and the Peacock.
The Grammar of a Rite in Shintō.
The Study of Myth as a Political Document.
The Folk Songs of Central India.
The Jiaw of Shigaang(Taiwan): An Essay in Folk Interpretation.
Review of: Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan; Morioka Kiyomi, Religion in Changing Japanese Society; Hua Shan, The Taoist Sacred Mountain in West China: Its Scenery,Monasteries and Monks; Mary Augusta Mullikin and Anna M. Hotchkis, The Nine Sacred Mountains of China; P.Xorloo,Xalx Ardyn Tuul, N. Poppe, Mongolische Epen IV.
The Badger in Japanese Folklore.
The Origin of Chinese Folk Medicine.
Isneg and Kankanay Riddles Explained.
Review of: The Fifteenth Congress of the “Friends of Festivals” (matsuri dōkōkai); Shimaguchi Yoshiaki, Bukkyō to minzoku; Washino Masaaki,Owari ni okeru shishimai; Kodama Makoto,Sangaku-shinkō to Jinja; Suzuki Masataka, Yanagita Kunio’s “Nihon no matsuri”; Anne Marie Bouchy, Kagura to shugendō; Nakazawa Nariaki,Gendai ni okeru miyaza no hōkai katei; Kobayashi Kazushige,Sansan zentei-kō ni tsuite; Akada Mitsuo, Tsushima no sōbo-sei; Kikuchi Teruo, Kitakami Sanchi no shin-yama-shinkō; Hirayanagi Misako, Matsuri to kamigakari; Yamaji Kōzō,Chūsei geinō ni tsuite; Shidara Minzoku Kenkyūkai, “Shidara”; Barbara Sperl, Tradition und Moderne in einem koreanischen Dorf
The Shrine: Notes towards a Study of Neighborhood Festivals in Modern Tokyo.
International Symposium on Japanese Folk Culture.
Shang-ssu Festival and its Myths in China and Japan.
Micronesian Ghosts and the Limits of Functional Analysis.
Mortuary Ritual Among the Ibaluy (Philippines).
Folkdance and Fairgrounds: More Notes on Neighborhood Festivals in Tokyo.
An Analysis of Korean Geomancy Tales.
A Soul's Journey: A Lisu Song from Northern Thailand.
The Female Element in Indian Culture.
List of Asian Folklore Scholars.
Review of: Maeda Noriko, W. Norman Brown, Tawi Tales: Folk Tales from Jammu (North India); Tanba Motoji, Shinmon.
Whale and Fish Cult in Japan: A Basic Feature of Ebisu Worship.
At the Sanctuary: Further Field Notes on the Shrine Festival in Modern Tokyo.
Some Characteristic Meters of Hindi Riddle Prosody.
Review of: Shinohara Shirō 篠原四郎, Kumano Daisha 『 熊野大社』 ; Louis Frédéric, Daily Life in Japan at the time of the Samurai 1185-1603; Uwai Hisayoshi, Uwai Teruyo, Nihon Minzoku no Genryū; Gellért Béky, Die Welt des Tao; The Modern Meaning of Shamanism; Erich Pauer, Technik–Wirtschaft –Gesellschaft
The Communitarian Aspect of Shinto Matsuri (Festivals)
The Folk Customs Museum in Takayama (Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan).
Review of: Shinoda Yasuo 篠田康雄, Atsuta Jingū 『熱田神宮』; Mabuchi Tōichi, Magico-religious Land Ownership in Central Formosa and Southeast Asia; Frances Carpenter, Tales of a Korean Grandmother; Richard Arens, Folk Practices and Beliefs of Leyte and Samar; Kustaa Vilkuna, Finnisches Brauchtum im Jahreslauf; A critical and Annotated Bibliography of Philippine, Indonesian and Other Malayan Folklore; Das Profil Japans.
Jewish-Near Eastern Numskull Tales: An Attempt at Interpretation.
Dances and Charms of the Tribes of Central India.
The Marriage Customs of the Christians in South Canara ( India ).
Carrying the Mikoshi: Further Field Notes on the Shrine Festival in Modern Tokyo.
Some Parallels Between the Fêng-Shên-Yên-I and the Shahnameh and the Possible Influence of the Former Upon the Persian Epic.
Reviews of: Sakurai Katsunoshin 桜井勝之進, Ise Jingū 『伊勢神宮』
Reviews of: Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一, Ise Sangū 『伊勢参宮』; Gorai Shigeru 五来重, Yama no Shūkyō: Shugendō 『山の宗教-修験道』; Wolfram Eberhard, Chinesische Träume und ihre Deutung.
A Study of Ghost Stories from Taiwan and San Francisco.
Notices of the Pagan Igorots in 1789-Part Two.
Review of: Cultural Affairs Bureau 文化庁編集, Handbook for Research and Collection of Folk Material 『民俗資料調査収集の手びき』; Moriguchi Tari 森口多里, Iwate Japanese Folklore 『岩手日本の民俗 』; Takeda Akira 武田明, Kagawa Japanese Folklore 『香川日本の民俗 』
Review of: Cheou-Kang Sié, A Butterfly’s Dream and Other Chinese Tales; On Food Culture Research; Francisco Demetrio, Dictionary of Philippine Folk Beliefs and Customs
The Spring Prayer (Toshigoi) Ceremony of the Heian Court.
Myth and Ritual Patterns in King Wu's Campaign Against King Chou
The Medicine Men of Agusan in Mindanao, Philippines.
A Reconstruction of 15th Century Calatagan Community.
The Mouse-deer (Kantjil) in Malayo-Indonesian Folklore: Alternative Analyses and the Significance of a Trickster Figure in South-East Asia.
From Dream to Folklore in Northeast Thailand.
Verrier Elwin's Field Methods and Fieldwork in India: An Appraisal.
Some Instances of Consanguineous Relationship Patterns in Hindu Joint Family as Depicted in Bhojpuri Folksongs.
A Female Necromancer in the Wabag District, Western Highlands of New Guinea.
Review of: D.E. Mills, A Collection of Tales from Uji; Marian Davies Toth, Tales from Thailand
Review of: Dominik Schröder, Aus der Volksdichtung der Monguor.
Review of: Günter Schüttler, Die letzten tibetischen Orakelpriester.
A Structural Study of Bagobo Myths and Rites.
Myths and Beliefs from Prehistoric Times at the Lower Sepik River, New Guinea.
Notices of the Pagan Igorots in 1789.
Malhor: A Type of Work Song in Western Uttar Pradesh, India
0-Kagura: Field Notes on the Festival Drama in Modern Tokyo
Review of: Josef Kreiner, Die Kultorganisation des japanischen Dorfes.
Review of: Thomas Immoos, The Birth of the Japanese Theater.
Review of: Hartmund O. Rotermund, Die Yamnbushi; Nihon minzoku shiryō jiten 『日本民俗資料辞典』; Hirano Minoru 平野實, Kōshin Shinkō 『庚申信仰』; Rogelio M. Lopez, Agricultural Practices of the Manobo in the Interior of Southwestern Cotabato (Mindanao); Francisco Billiet, Francis Lambrecht, The Kalinga Ullálim and lfugaw Orthography
The Form and Meaning of the Festival.
Reality in Japanese Folktales.
Towards a Classification of Bisayan Folk Beliefs and Customs.
The Religious Dimensions of Some Philippine Folktales.
The Engkanto Belief: An Essay in Interpretation.
Mourning Customs in Paoay, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
The Non-Christian Tagalogs in Rizal Province.
Review of: H. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity.
Review of: Thomas Immoos, Das Tanzritual der Yamabushi und Ein Ritual der Wiedergeburt in den Yamabushi-Kagura; Gitta Lepsius, Das heutige Japanische Puppentheater auf dem Lande und seine Vorgeschichte.
Review of: Tōichi Mabuchi, Toward the Reconstruction of Ryukyuan Cosmology; Josef Kreiner, Some Problems of Folk Religion in the Southwest Ilands (Ryūkyū); William A. Lessa, Chinese Body Divination; Leyte-Samar Studies; Lorenzo Ga. Cesar, The Santo Niño of Tacloban in History Legend and Devotion of the People; Maria G. Villegas Sister, Superstitious Beliefs and Practices in the Coastal Towns of Eastern Leyte; Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Religious Thoughts of the Bronze Age People of Indochina; Georges Condaminas, Some Mnong Gar Religious Concepts: A World of Forms; Tsuneo Ayabe, A Study of Soul Concept in Thailand and Japan.
Genre and Function in Eastern Carolinian Narrative.
The Spirit World of the Bukidnon.
Tribal Gods and Festivals in Central India.
Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Folklorist (Stith Thornson).
Review of: Maria Penkala, A Correlated History of the Far East; Trading under Sail off Japan 1860-99; Donald Paul Berger, Folk Songs of Japanese Children; Leon M. Zolbrod, Kusazōshi: Chapbooks of Japan; Venčesleva Hrdličková, Chinese Storytellers and Singers of Ballads their Performances and Storytelling Techniques; Charlotte B. De Forest, The Prancing Pony; Francisco Demetrio, Towards a Survey of Philippine Folklore and Mythology
The Celebration of the Haru-yama (Spring-mountain) An Example of Folk Religious Practices in Contemporary Japan
On Some Chincse Terms of Abuse.
Creation Myths among the Early Filipinos.
On the Position of Women in Indian Folk Culture.
Indic Background of The Book of Sindibad
The Oedipus Myth and Complex in Oceania with Special Reference to Truk.
Notes of the Culture of the Kuli (New Guinea).
Review of: Kenichi Mizusawa 水沢謙一, Obaba no mukashibanashi 『おばばの昔ばなし』; Junichi Nomura 野村純一, Fukudani Matsubei mukashibanashi shū 『吹谷松兵衛昔話集』; Kōji Inada and Toshihiko Kawabata, 稲田浩二, 川端豊彦, Hirusen bonchi no mukashibanashi 『蒜山盆地昔話』
Reiview of: Nakatō Eijō 中藤栄祥, Bushū Koma-gun Nakayamamura kiroku 『武州高麗郡中山村記録』; Haru M. Reischauer, Leaves in the Sun in Drawings and words by Yuki; Laurence P. Roberts, The Connoisseur’s Guide to Japanese Museums; Charles A. Pomeroy, Traditional Crafts of Japan; Anne Swann Goodrich, The Peking Temple of the Eastern Peak
Folklore Research in Communist China.
The Ritual Invocations of Hateruma in the Ryūkyū Islands.
Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore.
Kenichi Mizusawa, a Modern Collector of Japanese Folktales.
Rview of: Eduard J. M. Kroker, Die amtliche Sammlung chinesischer Rechtsgewohnheiten.
Review of: Edwin Capers Kirkland, A Biobliography of South Asian Folklore.
Dream Motif in Turkish Folk Stories and.Shamanistic Initiation.
Hindu and Tribal Folklore in Assam.
The Ethnography of Sāng, A North Indian Folk Opera
Some Annotated Indian Folksongs.
Folktale Telling and Storytellers in Japan.
The Story of a Wedding in Pakistan.
Review of: Denshō Bungei: Sōma chihō mukashibanashi shū 『相馬地方昔話集』; Denshō Bungei: Iwafune chihō mukashibanashi shū 『岩船地方昔話集』; Denshō Bungei: Oitama chihō mukashibanashi shū 『置賜地方昔話集』
Review of: Ruth Quinlan Sun, Land of Seagull and Fox: Folktales of Vietnam; Monumenta Nipponica Monographs: Folk Cultures of Japan and East Asia; Cheng Man-Ch’ing and Robert W. Smith, Tai-ch'i: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport and Self-Defense
On Certain Tales of the Konjaku Monogatari as Reflections of Japanese Folk Religion.
Review of: Kunio Yanagita, Japanese Folk Tales; John W. Hall and Richard K. Beardsley, Twelve Doors to Japan; Folk Cultures of Japan and East Asia; Joseph Haekel and C. B. Tripathi, Eine Besessenheits Séance der Rathva-Kali in Gujarat (Indien); Myths on the Origin of Death among the Early Filipinos.
The Marriage Customs of Christians in South Canara, India.
Folktales of the Gond and Baiga in Eastern Mandla.
Review of: Teihon Yanagita Kunio Shū.
Review of: Suzuki Tōzō 鈴木棠三, Kuttan Jiji no Hanashi Tushima no Mukashibanashi 『くったんじじの話 対馬の昔話』; Imamura Yoshitaka 今村義孝, Akita Mugashiko 『秋田むがしこ』; Hiejima Sigetaka 比江島重孝, Hanpi no Genabanashi Hyūga no Mukashibanashi 『半ぴのげな話 日向の昔話』; Satō Yoshihiro 佐藤良裕, Fukuoka no Mukashibanashi 『福岡の昔話』
The Serpent as a Folk-Deity in Bengal.
Messianic Movements in Primitive India.
"The Naming of Names" in Indian Folk Belief.
"Mika"-Jar Deities in Japanese Mythology.
Kumo, the Deadly Witchcraft in the Central Highlands of New Guinea.
Notes on Animism and Magic Practices on the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.
Details of the Mengge People'sCulture in the Highlands of New-Guinea.
Review of: Donn V. Hart, Riddles in Filípino Folklore.
Review of: Kenichi Mizusawa 水沢謙一, Tochio-go mukashi-banashi shu 『栃尾郷昔ばなし集』; Kenichi Mizusawa 水沢謙一, Echigo no shinderera 『越後のシンデレラ』
Review of: C. Owehand, Namazu-e and Their Themes; Alois Pache, Die religiösen Vorstellungen in den Mythen der formosanischen Bergstämme.
Folklore Research in East Pakistan.
East Asian Themes in Folktales of the Formosan Aborigines.
Yama no Kami–die japanische Berggottheit
A Report on a Bibliography of South Asian Folklore.
Obituary: Birinchi Kumār Baruā (1910-1964).
Obituary: Verrier Elwin (1902-1964).
Review of: B. K. Barua, Folk-Culture of Assam.
Review of: Choe Sang-su, A Study of the Korean Puppet Play.
Review of: Richard M. Dorson, Bying the Wind. Regional Folklore in the United States; Tokihiko Oto, Folklore in Japanese Life and Customs.
Tales concerning the Origin of Grains in the Insular Areas of Eastern and Southeastern Asia.
The Legend of Biag, An Igorot Culture Hero.
The Sanskrit Loan-Words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language.
Review of: Paul Brunner, L’Euchologe de la Mission de Chine; Richard M. Dorson, Studies in Japanese Folklore.
A Survey of Philippine Folk Epics.
The Divine Boy in Japanese Buddhism.
Günstige und ungünstige Zeiten und Zeichen nach dem Tibetischen des Chags-med-rin- po-che.
Yama no Kami: die japanische Berggottheit
News and Notes on Asian Folklore.
Review of: Hori Ichirō, Nippon Syūkyō no Shakaiteki Yakuwari, Nippon Syūkyō-shi Kenkyū 1; Hori Ichirō, Syūkyō-Syūzoku no Seikatsu Kisei, Nippon Syūkyō-shi Kenkyū 2; Mizusawa Kenichi,水澤謙一, Tochio-gō Mukashibanashi Shū 『栃尾郷昔ばなし集』
Review of: Abstracts of Folklore Studies; Tachibana Kyōdō, On the Relation between the Furies-belief and Mahaprajñapāramita-sutrā-belief in Japan; Nishiguchi Junko, Buddhist Temples of Local Aristocrats in the 9th and 10th Century; David Szanton, Art in Sulu: A Survey; Siegbert Hummel and Paul G. Brewster, Games of the Tibetans; Karin Hissnk und Albert Hahn, Die Tacana.
Cordillera Architecture in Northern Luzon.
Acupuncture, Cautery and Massage in Japan.
Solomon's Judgement, Mahosadha, and the Hoei-kan-li
Daruma, a Symbol of Good Luck.
Review of: Richard M. Dorson, Folklore Research Around the World; Richard M. Dorson, The Folk Legends of Japan; Marcelino A. Foronda Jr., Cults Honoring Rizal.
The Goblin Fox and Badger and Other Witch Animals of Japan.
The Saintly Kōbō Daishi in Popular Lore (A.D. 774-835).
Das Pferd in Sage und Brauchtum Japans.
Japanese Folklore Science Today.
Review of: Mizusawa Kenichi 水沢謙一, Iki ga pon to Saketa 『 いきがポーンとさけた』; Noda Tayoko 能田多代子, Tekkiri Anesama 『手っきり娘さま』; Hirano Tadashi, 平野直, Suneko tanpoko (1)(2) 『すねこたんぽこ』
The weird tale of the twelve hunchbacks. ATagalog Folktale.
The golden tree of the Ibalos a Folktale.
Mount Pulog-Heaven of the Ibaloi.
Myths and their magic use in Ifugao.
Primitive Kalinga peace-treaty system.
Aklan superstitions about toys.
The Adam and Eve of the Ilocanos.
Two Folktales of the monteses of Panay (Visayan Islands,Philippines).
Notes on Japanese Folk Art. On Münsterberg's book "The Folk Arts of Japan" and relevant matters.
Review of: Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens; Ikeda Yasaburō, Geinō ; Ikeda Yasaburō, Nihonjin no Geinō
Review of: Mizusawa Kenichi 水澤謙一, Four Collections of Japanese Folk Tales.
Review of Nippon minzokugaku essays.
Tayabas Tagalog Awit Fragments From Quezon Province.
Ifugao Tales, Banawe and Mayawyaw.
Educational Practices of Tibetan Lama Training.
The Rice Ritual in the East Visayan Islands, Philippines.
Review of: Hubert Reinirkens, Sprichwörter und Redensarten Deutsch-Japanisch, Kotowaza to Seigo 『諺と成語』; Tadao Kano and Segawa Kōkichi, An Illustrated Ethnography of Formosan Aborigines; V. R. Burckhardt, Chinese Creeds and Customs; Joseph F. Rock, The Zhi mä Funeral Ceremony of the Na-khi of Southwest China; Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens: Ethnographie der Negrito; Ishida Eiichirō, The Mother-Son Complex in Japanese Religion and Folklore
Quarrels and Enmity between the Sun and the Moon: A Contribution to the Mythologies of the Philippines, India, and the Malay Peninsula
Die “Reisseele” in Japan und Korea
Review of Nippon minzokugaku essays
Review of: An Illustrated Rook on Annual Festivals and Customs of Japan. Nenjū gyōji zusetsu 『年中行事図説』; Niiname no Kenkyū 『新嘗の研究』
Some Sound Correspondences in Six Philippine Languages
The Phonemes of Southern Bukidnon Manobo
Mat Industry in Apalit, Province of Pampanga,Luzon
Mat Weaving in Apalit and Vicinity, Province of Pamganga, Luzon
The Sabutan Mat Industry of Tanay, Province of Rizal
The Mat Industry of Basey, Samar (Philippines)
Review of: Paul Schebesta, Die Negrito Asiens; Morice Vanoverbergh, Songs in Lepanto-Igorot as it is Spoken at Bauko
The Hagiography of the Chinese God Chen-wu (The transmission of rural traditions in Chahar)
Some Honorific Expressions in Wakayama Dialect
Annual Customs and Religious Practices in Yoshio Village (Awa District, Chiba Prefecture)
Review of: Etudes d’ethnographie japonaise, Le Conte du Coupeur de Bambous (traduction)
The Kappa Legend. A Comparative Ethological Study on the Japanese Water-Spirit Kappa and Its Habit of Trying to Lure Horses into the Water
A Contribution to the Knowledge of East-mongolian Folkpoetry
The Industrial and Commercial Guilds of Peking and Religion and Fellowcountrymanship as Elements of their Coherence
On the Cult of the Four Sacred Animals Szu Ta Men (四大門) in the Neighbourhood of Peking
Secret Religious Societies in North China in the MingDynasty.
Die wirtschaftliche Ausnutzung des Nan-Yang Sees (南陽湖) in Süd-Shantung.
Eine Ausstellung des alten Kunsthandwerkes in Peking.
Catholic University Expedition to Hsüanhua (South Chahar), Preliminary Report
Das Jahr im chinesischen Volkslied
Les temples villageois de la région au Sud de Tat'ong (Chansi Nord), leurs inscriptions et leur histoire
Children's Riddles and Ditties from the South of Tatung
Über die Ho-pao 荷包 und ihre Technik. Mit Beschreibung von 25 Exemplaren aus der Sammlung Hammer
A Chinese-Hebrew Manuscript, a new Source for the History of the Chinese Jews
An Early Chinese Source on the Kaifeng Jewish Community
Seven East Mongolian Nursery Rhymes
Review of: Shibuzawa Keizō 澁澤敬三, Nihongyomei syūkan 『日本魚名集覽』; Takeda Chuichirō 武田忠一郎, Tōhoku no minyō 『東北の民謡』
Die japanische Volkskunde. Ihre Vorgeschichte, Entwicklung und gegenwärtige Lage. Deutsche Übertragung von Matthias Eder
Les Cérémonies du Mariage. Usages populaires et textes dialectaux du Sud de la préfecture de Ta-t'oung (Chansi) (suite)
Die Opfergaben zum Hanashizume Matsuri ("Blumenberuhigungsfest") nach dem Engishiki
The Dragon Boat Race in Wu-ling, Hunan
Der Ritus des Shinto-Gottesdienstes
Hausfrontdekorationen in Peking. Mit Paral-lelen aus Shantung und Nord-Honan
Modern Chinese Folklore Investigation (Part 2)
Frühlingsdoppelsprüche (春聯 ) von 1942 an Pekinger Haustüren
Beobachtungen über Sesshaftigkeit und Kulturwandel bei den Mongolen des Jouda Ciyulyan