ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 54 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Folklore Studies 54 (2)

This volume contains 27 articles.

Tradition Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema Booth, Gregory D.

The Last Tiger in East Java: Symbolic Continuity in Ecological Change Wessing, Robert

Mountain Gods and Trance Mediums: A Qinghai Tibetan Summer Festival Kevin Stuart, Banmadorji, and Huangchojia

Restoring the *Epic of Hou Yi* Mori Masako

Yamato-takeru: An “Arthurian” Hero in Japanese Tradition Littleton, C. Scott

The Woman Who Married a Horse: Five Ways of Looking at a Chinese Folktale Miller, Alan L.

A Common Nomenclature for Traditional Rhymes Shahed, Syed Mohammad

Review of: Alison Rentelen Dundes and Alan Dundes, *Folk Law: Essays in the Theory and Practice of* Lex Non Scripta Chiba Masaji

Review of: Charles F. Keyes, Laurel Kendall, and Helen Hardacre, *Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the Modern States of East and Southeast Asia* Walker, Anthony R.

Review of: Luisa Passerini, Memory and Totalitarianism Dow, James R.

Review of: Nicholas Thomas and Caroline Humphrey, *Shamanism, History, and the State* Waida Manabu

Review of: Reiko Mochinaga Brandon and Barbara B. Stephan, *The Japanese New Year: Spirit and Symbol* Knecht, Peter

Review of: Sawada Minoru, *The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times* Toelken, Barre

Review of: Kenneth Dean, *Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China* Bokenkamp, Staphen A.

Review of: Monica Drexler, *Daoistische Schriftmagie: Interpretationen zu den Schriftamuletten* Fu *im* Daozang. Kohn, Livia

Review of: Feng Jicai, *The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Footbinding* Bauer, Daniel J.

Review of: Carolyn Han, *Why Snails Have Shells: Minority and Han Folktales of China* Stuart, Kevin

Review of: Walther Heissig, *Fragen der mongolischen Heldendichtung, Teil 5. Vorträge des 6: Epensymposiums des Sonderforschungsbereichs 12, Bonn 1988* Moses, Larry

Review of: Kevin Stuar,* The Teller of Seventy Lies & Other Mongolian Folktales* Heissig, Walther

Review of: Yang Dao, *Hmong at the Turning Point* Walker, Anthony R.

Review of: Sommai Premchit and Amphay Dore, *The Lan Na Twelve-Month Traditions* Walker, Anthony R.

Review of: Niaz Zaman, *Princess Kalabati and Other Tales* Fuchs, Stephen

Review of: Brenda E. F. Beck, *Elder Brothers Story: An Oral Epic of Tamil* Heda Jason and David Schulman

Mary Carroll Smith, *The Warrior Code of India's Sacred Song* Jason, Heda

Reviw of: Joanne Punzo Waghorne, *The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India* Vasantkumar, N. J. C.

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* Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona

Reviw of: P. Marcel Kurpershoek, *Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia I: The Poetry of ad-Dindān, Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd* Caton, Steven C.