ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 62 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Folklore Studies 62 (2)

This volume contains 21 articles.

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Revitalizing Japanese Folklore Schnell, Scott and Hashimoto Hiroyuki

Cultural Diversity and Folklore Studies in Japan: A Multiculturalist Approach Shimamura Tomonari

Between Preservation and Tourism: Folk Performing Arts in Contemporary Japan Hashimoto Hiroyuki

Folktale Research After Yanagita: Development and Related Issues Kawamori Hiroshi

A Female Shaman’s Mind and Body, and Possession Kawamura Kunimitsu

On Cognitive Aspects of Rhetorical Time Reckoning: Metaphor and Image-Schema in Calendrical Divination in Okinawa Sensui Hidekazu

Review of: Lauri Honko, *The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics* Jason, Heda

Review of: Ingrid Fritsch, *Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music (1901–1913)* Groemer, Gerald

Review of: Gloria Ganz Gonick, *Matsuri! : Japanese Festival Arts* Knecht, Peter

Review of: Honda Katsuichi, *Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale* Wöhr, Ulrike

Review of: Alessandro Dell’Orto, *Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life* Mio Yūko

Review of: Li Fuqing, *Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi* McLaren, Anne

Review of: Richard E. Strassberg, *A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas* Kardos, Michael A.

Review of: Carole Pegg, *Mongolian Music, Dance and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities* Tongeren, Mark van

Review of: Carlos R. Medina, *106 Ifugao Abu’Wab Tales Documented by Frans Lambrecht, C.I.C.M. From 1932 to 1957* Goda, Toh

Review of: Clifford Sather, *Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants* Uchibori Motomitsu

Review of: Bernard Sellato, *Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures* Sather, Clifford

Review of: Alexander M. Dubianski, *Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry* Ramanathan, Aru and Ezhilavan Ramanathan

Review of: Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, *The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales* Valk, Ülo

Review of: Martine van Woerkens, *The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginations and the Thugs of India* Naithani, Sadhana

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* Sbait, Dirghām H.