ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 69 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 69 (2)

This volume contains 21 articles.

Ethnographic Perspectives on Differentiating Shamans from other Ritual Intercessors Sidky, H.

Narrative, Genre, and Contextuality: The *Nüshu*-Transcribed Liang-Zhu Ballad in Rural South China Liu, Fei-wen

Sacred Dance at Sensōji: The Development of a Tradition Groemer, Gerald

The Social Contract and Symbolic Structure in Three Vietnamese Tales of the “Last Born” Tran, Quynh Ngoc Bui

“Slit Belly Swamp”: A Japanese Myth of the Origin of the Pleiades? Palmer, Edwina

Research Note

Philippine Sungka and Cultural Contact in Southeast Asia De Voogt, Alex

Reviews/Books/Japan

Tomoko Aoyama, *Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature* Cwiertka, Katarzyna J.

Satsuki Kawano, *Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites* Mock, John

Christian Gohlert, *Die Verehrung von Wasserleichen und ihre Stellung im japanischen Volksglauben* Riessland, Andreas

Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire/Sandra Roth and Carina Roth, *Shugendō Now/Where mountains fly* Rill, Bryan

Reviews/Books/Korea

Grace M. Cho, *Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War* Soh, Chunghee Sarah

Laurel Kendall, *Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion* Walraven, Boudewijn

Reviews/Books/China

Snying bo rgyal and R. Solomon Rino, *Deity Men: Reb Gong Tibetan Trance Mediums in Transition* Bender, Mark

Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen, *On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier* Tan, Gillian G.

Stephen Jones, *Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi / Ritual and Music of North China, Volume 2: Shaanbei* Du, Yaxiong

Margaret B. Wan, *Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel* McLaren, Anne E.

Reviews/Books/Central Asia

Grégory Delaplace, *L’invention des morts. Sepultures, fantômes et photographies en Mongolie contemporaine* Munsi, Roger Vanzila

Reviews/Books/Vietnam

Olga Dror, *Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History* Fjelstad, Karen

Reviews/Books/Southeast Asia

Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, and Michael Parnwell, eds., *Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions* White, Merry

Reviews/Books/India

Anna Morcom, *Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema* Hoek, Lotte

James Kippen, *Gurudev’s Drumming Legacy: Music, Theory and Nationalism in the Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati of Gurudev Patwardhan* Wolf, Richard K.