ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 49 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Folklore Studies 49 (2)

This volume contains 32 articles.

A Turkish Lullaby Macfie, A. L. and F. Macfie

Wedding, Etiquette, and Traditional Songs of the Minhe Region Tu Ma Guangxing

New Material on East Mongolian Shamanism Heissig, Walther

Sri and Sedana and Sita and Rama: Myths of Fertility and Generation Wessing, Robert

An Alternative to the *Sati* Model: Perceptions of a Social Reality in Folklore Chowdhry, Prem

*Malang*, Sufis, and Mystics: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of Shamanism in Afghanistan Sidky, M. H.

Changing Patterns of Architecture and Symbolism among the Sa'dan Toraja (Indonesia) Domenig, Gaudenz

Review of: Victor Raskin, Humor: International Journal of Humor Research Handelman, Don

Review of: Garry Chick, Play and Culture. Anderson, Wanni Wibulswasdi

Review of: Gillian Bennett, Paul S. Smith, and John D. A. Widdowson, *Perspectives on Contemporary* Legend 2; Gillian Bennett and Paul S. Smith, *Monsters with Iron Teeth*; Gillian Bennett and Paul S. Smith, *The Questing Beast* Jason, Heda

Review of: Hilda Ellis Davidson, *The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions* Sadler, A. W.

Review of: Carl Lindahl, *Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales* Seland, John J.

Review of: Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, *American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent* Clements, William M.

Review of: H. Byron Earhart, *Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Returning to the Center* Reader, Ian

Review of: Walter Edwards, *Modern Japan through its Weddings* Neuss-Kaneko, Margret

Review of: François Macé, *Kojiki shinwa no kōzō* 『古事記神話の構造』 Rocher, Alain

Review of: Can Xue, *Dialogues in Paradise* Bauer, Daniel J.

Review of: Hans Egli, *Mirimiringan: Die Mythen und Märchen der Paiwan* Kaneko Erika

Review of: Gail Oman King, *The Story of Hua Guan Suo* Lai, Whalen

Review of: Zhao Zongfu 趙宗福, Huaer tonglun 『花?通論』; Zhou Juangu 周娟姑 and Zhang Gengyou 張更有, *Qinghai chuantong minjian gegu jingxuan* 『青海伝統民間歌曲精選』 Feng, Lide and Kevin Stuart

Review of: I. M. Suslov, Karl H. Menges, *Materialien zum Schamanismus der Ewenki-Tungusen an der mittleren und unteren Tunguska* Knecht, Peter

Review of: Antoon Postma, *Annotated Mangyan Bibliography 1570-1988* Miyamoto Masaru

Review of: Friedrich Seltmann, *Die Kalang: Eine Volksgruppe von Java und ihre Stamm-Mythe* Schweizer, Thomas

Review of: Walter O. Kaelber, Tapta-Marga: *Asceticism and Initiation in Vedic India* Veliath, Cyril

Review of: June McDaniel, *The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal* Karim, Anwarul

Review of: Indira Viswanathan Peterson, *Poems to Śiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints* Tsuchida, Christina

Review of: Traude Pillai-Vetschera, *Indische Märchen: Der Prinz aus der Mangofrucht* Fuchs, Stephen

Review of: Arvind Sharma, Ajit Ray, Alaka Hejib, and Katherine K. Young, Sati: *Historical and Phenomenological Essays* Chowdhry, Prem

Review of: Kamil V. Zvelebil, *Two Tamil Folktales: The Story of King Matanakāma, The Story of the Peacock Rāvana* Peterson, Indira Viswanathan

Review of: Sherry B. Ortner, *High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism* Kano Katsuhiko

Review of: George Van Driem, *A Grammar of Limbu* Nishi Yoshiko

Review of: W. L. Heston and Mumtaz Nasir, *The Bazaar of the Storytellers* Sidky, M. H.