ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 59 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Folklore Studies 59 (1)

This volume contains 25 articles.

Toothless Ancestors, Felicitous Descendants: The Rite of Secondary Burial in South Taiwan Tsu, Timothy Y.

*KaaLiyaaTTam*: The Life History of a Performer and the Develop-ment of a Performing Art Ramanathan, Aru

Elegiac *Chhand* and *Duhā* in Charani Lore Meghāni, Jhaverchand

The Bone Motif and Lambs in the Turkish Folktale “The Reed Door” Ruhi, Sükriye

The Lapidary Sky over Japan Metevelis, Peter

Traditional Law of the Ede Ngo Duc Thinh

Thirty Korku Dancing Songs Fuchs, Stephen

Obituary: Stephen Fuchs SVD (1908-2000) Michael, S. M.

Obituary: Wang Xiaotang (1918–2000) Børdahl, Vibeke

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* Villani, Paolo

Review of: Wolfgang Mieder and Anna Tóthné Litovkina, *Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs* Mayer, David R.

Review of: Sen Sōlshitsu XV., *The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū* Schaarschmidt-Richter, I

Review of: Karen A. Smyers, *The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship* Wacker, Monika

Review of: Vibeke Børdahl, *The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China* Lindell, Kristina

Review of: Gao Yan, *The Art of Parody: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Use of Chinese Sources* Chang, Doris L. W.

Review of: Stevan Harrell, Bamo Qubumo and Ma Erzi, *Mountain Patterns: The Survival of Nuosu Culture in China* Knecht, Peter

Review of: Florian Reiter, *The Aspiration and Standards of Taoist Priests in the Early T’ang Period* Kohn, Livia

Review: Li Yu, *A Tower for the Summer Heat* Bauer, Daniel J.

Review: Paula R. Bos, *Biographies of Florenese Musical Instruments and Their Collectors* Groemer, Gerald

Review: Valentine E. Daniel, *Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence* Sugimoto Yoshio

Review: Lauri Honko, *Textualising the Siri Epic*; Lauri Honko, Chinnappa Gowda, Anneli Honko, and Viveka Rai, *The Siri Epic as Performed by Gopala Naika* Jason, Heda

Review of: A. K. Ramanujan, *A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India* Handoo, Lalita

Review of: Muhammad Ahmad Panāhī Semnānī, *Tarāne wa tarānesarāyī dar Iran* Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona

Review of: Rowshan Rahmānī, *Afsānehā-ye darī* Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona

Review of: Ahmad Vakilian, *Tamsil wa masal* Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona