ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 63 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Folklore Studies 63 (1)

This volume contains 20 articles.

Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ *Qeej* Says (Part One) Falk, Catherine

Speaking with Spirits: The Hmong *Ntoo Xeeb* New Year Ceremony Hao Huang and Bussakorn Sumrongthong

Shamanic Epics and Narrative Construction of Identity on Cheju Island Kim Seong-nae

Dreaming the Seven-Colored Flower: Eastern and Western Approaches to Dreams in Chinese Folk Literature Giskin, Howard

The Scorpion in Muslim Folklore Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim

Obituary: Lauri Honko (1932-2002). Harvilahti, Lauri

Obituary: Dai Buzhang Børdahl, Vibeke

Review of: Wolfgang Mieder, *Proverbs and Their Lessons: Richard Chenevix Trench* Mayer, David R.

Review of: Mark C. van Tongeren, *Overtone Singing: Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics in East and West* Lee Tong Soon

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* De Graaf, Tjeerd

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* Knecht, Peter

Review of: Kim Chongho, *Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox* Pettid, Michael J.

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』 Bender, Mark

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* Saitō Chie

Review of: Thomas H. Slone, *One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspaper* Mitchell, Roger E.

Review of: Qiron Adhikary, *Feminist Folktales from India; William Crooke and Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, Folktales from Northern India* Gold, Ann Grodzins

Review of: M. V. Kamath and Kalindi Randeri, *Indian Names: From Classical to Contemporary (For People, Places and Products)* Jason, Heda and Alexander Tcherniak

Review of: Ramdas Lamb, *Rapt in the Name: The Ramnamis, Ramnam, and Untouchable Religion in Central India* Michael, S. M.

Review of: Martin Gaenszle, *Ancestral Voices: Oral Ritual Texts and their Social Contexts among the Mewahang Rai of East Nepal* Maskarinec, Gregory G.

Review of: Alan Dundes, *Fables of the Ancients? Folklore in the Qur’an* Nasr, Ahmad A.