ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 68 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 68 (1)

This volume contains 14 articles.

Articles

“What’s Written on the Forehead Will Never Fail”: Karma, Fate, and Headwriting in Indian Folktales Eliza F. Kent

The Most Revered of Foxes: Knowledge of Animals and Animal Power in an Ainu *Kamui Yukar* Sarah M. Strong

National Pantheon, Regional Deities, Personal Spirits?: *Mushindo, Sŏngsu*, and the Nature of Korean Shamanism Boudewijn Walraven

“By the Sweetness of the Tongue”: Duty, Destiny, and Devotion in the Oral Life Narratives of Female *Sādhus* in Rajasthan Antoinette E. DeNapoli

Local Knowledge Constructed by the State: Reinterpreting Myths and Imagining the Migration History of the Lahu in Yunnan, Southwest China Ma Jianxiong

Re-visioning Gendered Folktales in Novels by Mia Yun and Nora Okja Keller Sung-Ae Lee

Reviews/Books/Japan

Lorie Brau, *Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo* Gerald Groemer

Kunio Yanagita, *The Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition* Charlotte Eubanks

Kelly M. Foreman, *The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning* Gerald Groemer

Reviews/Books/South Korea

Simon Mills, *Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast Hereditary Shamans* Michael J. Pettid

Reviews/Books/Vietnam

Heonik Kwon, *After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai* Margaret B. Bodemer

Reviews/Books/India

Sudha Chandola, *Entranced by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion* Rebecca J. Manring

Shankar Narayana D. Poojary, trans., *Epic of the Warriors (Kōti Chennaya Pārdana)* Heda Jason

Reviews/Books/Central Asia

Karl Reichl, ed. and trans., *Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov* Heda Jason and Amnon Shiloah