Asian Folklore Studies articles from April 1993

Asian Folklore Studies archives from April 1993

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire.
April 1, 1993... Humor in Life and Letters Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 433 pages. 231 illustrations. Cloth US$39.95; ISBN 0-8143-2357-X. Paper US $15.95; ISBN 0-8143-2358-8. Recently in a Japanese university faculty building, next...

Shamans in the 20th Century.
April 1, 1993... Frontier of Consciousness Series, general editor Stanley Krippner. New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc.,1991. xx + 101 pages. Photographs, bibliography, index. Paper US$14.95; ISBN 0-8290-2459-X. Ruth-Inge Heinze, a scholar who has studied...

Narrenidee und Fastnachtsbrauch. Studien zum Fortleben des Mittelalters in der europaischen Festkultur.
April 1, 1993... [The idea of the fool and carnival customs: Studies concerning the survival of the Middle Ages in contemporary European festival culture]. Konstanz, Germany: Universitatsverlag Konstanz, 1991. 624 pages. 354 photographs (many in color),...

Stone Houses and Iron Bridges: Tradition and the Place of Women in Contemporary Japan.
April 1, 1993... Toronto Studies in Religion. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, 1992. xviii + 260 pages. Tables, bibliography, index. Hardcover SFr 69.50; ISBN 0-8204-1568-5; ISSN 8756-7385. This book concerns women, religion, and change in Japan during and...

Hosogami ou la petite verole aisement. Materiaux pour l'etude des epidemies dans le Japon des XVIIIe, XIXe siecles.
April 1, 1993... Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Centre d'Etudes sur les Religions et Traditions Populaires du Japon. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1991. 306 pages. Plates, bibliography, index. Paper FFr. 218.00; ISBN 2-7068-1033-5. (In French) This book...

Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas.
April 1, 1993... Foreword by Charlotte Innes. Translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991. xx + 269 pages. Cloth US $41.95; ISBN 0-8101-0974-3. Paper US$16.95; ISBN 0-8101-0988-3. Contemporary Chinese...

Chinese Demon Tales: Meanings and Parallels in Oral Tradition.
April 1, 1993... Harvard Dissertions in Folklore and Oral Tradition, edited by Albert B. Lord. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1990. xiv + 194 pages. Appendix, Chinese texts, bibliography, index. Cloth US$70.00; ISBN 0-8240-2529-6. The...

Religion und Schamanismus der Ainu auf Sachalin.
April 1, 1993... [Religion and shamanism of the Sakhalin Ainu: A contribution to historical ethnology of East Asia]. Munchen: Iudicium Verlag GmbH, 1991. 171 pages. Bibliography. Paper DM 42.00; ISBN 3-89129-278-3. (In German) Norbert R. Adami's monograph...

La chasse a l'ame. Esquisse d'une theorie du chamanisme siberien.
April 1, 1993... Outlining a theory of Siberian shamanism]. Memoires de la societe d'ethnologie 1. Nanterre, France: Societe d'ethnologie, 1990. 880 pages. Maps, illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, subject index, glossary of vernacular terms....

The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship.
April 1, 1993... Atkinson, Jane Monnig. The, Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xviii + 365 pages. Texts, illustrations, maps, bibliography, glossary, subject index. Cloth US$39.95; ISBN 0-520-06377-5. In...

The Cult of Draupadi, vol. 2, On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess.
April 1, 1993... The University of Chicago Press, 1991. xxi + 533 pages. Maps, figures, tables, plates, bibliography, general index, index of temple and festival sites. Paper 21.95[pounds] (UK and Eire), US$31.75 (except USA, Canada, Australia); ISBN...

Types of Indic Oral Tales: Supplement.
April 1, 1993... FF Communications No. 242. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1989. 101 pages. References, map. Paper, FIM 50.; ISBN 951-41-0596-6; ISSN 0014-5815. Although type and motif indices have an important role in folklore methodology, not all...

Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia.
April 1, 1993... Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. xiii+273 pages. Index. Cloth US$40.00; ISBN 0-520-07281-2. Paper US$14.95; ISBN 0-520-07589-7. The Ramayana is an epic story that has played a decisive role in the life of the...

The Epic of Pabuji: A Study, Transcription and Translation.
April 1, 1993... University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv+512 pages. Map, plates, figures, line drawings, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth [pounds]42.50; ISBN 0-521-39536-4. John...

The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective.
April 1, 1993... Suny Series in Hindu Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. xiv+321 pages. Figures, appendices with translations of myths, bibliography, index. Paper US $16.95; ISBN 0-7914-0800-0. Hardcover US$49.50; ISBN 0-7914-0799-3. ...

Musical Instruments of Pakistan: A Catalogue.
April 1, 1993... 1989. 27 pages, photographs, drawings, map. Paper, no price. Mahrukh Yousuf has provided us with four volumes that will serve as much-needed guides to the Lok Virsa Museum and Archive in Islamabad. The volumes--covering, as the titles...

Folk Motifs of Pakistan: A Catalogue.
April 1, 1993... 1990. x+192 pages. Color plates, drawings, glossary, bibliography. Hardcover, no price. ISBN 969-468-000-X. The second catalog, Folk Motifs of Pakistan, is intended as a complement to other works on folkcraft, adding "a context to their...

Folk Jewellery of Pakistan: A Catalogue.
April 1, 1993... 1990. 61 pages. Maps, drawings, photographs. Paper, no price. The third catalog, Folk Jewellery of Pakistan, again indicates Lok Virsa's romantic search for folklore in the old and the rural. The focus of the catalog (and of the museum's...

Wood Works in Pakistan: A Catalogue.
April 1, 1993... 1991. 60 pages. Maps, drawings, photographs. Paper, no price. All of the above are available from Lok Virsa, P. 0. Box No. 1184. Islamabad, Pakistan. The last catalog, Wood Works of Pakistan, opens with an introduction discussing the...

Arabia ridens: Die humoristische Kurzprosa der fruhen adab-Literatur im internationalen Traditionsgeflecht.
April 1, 1993... [Arabia ridens: The humoristic short prose of early adab literature in the international web of traditions]. Band 1: Darstellung [Exposition]. Band 2: Material [Material]. Frankfurter Wissenschaftliche Beitrage, Kulturwissenschaftliche Reihe Band...

The Arabian Oral Historical Narrative: An Ethnographic and Linguistic Analysis.
April 1, 1993... Semitica Viva, Band 6. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992. xii+323 pages. Facsimile of Arab text, appendices (lists of characters, genealogical charts, place names), glossary, bibliography. Paper DM 98.00; ISBN 3-447-03224-3; ISSN 0931-2811....

The 'Salfah' as narrative genre. (Arab Folklore)
April 1, 1993... Key words: Shammar -- Dhafir -- Najdi dialect -- heroic literature -- gesture -- minor characters INTRODUCTION THE salfah genre, though familiar to dialectologists studying the dialects of the Arabian Peninsula, may be less well...

Heartbeat: conventionality and originality in Najdi poetry. (Arab Folklore)
April 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION THREE years ago I had the good fortune of spending about six weeks with an old and penniless yet proud and defiant Bedouin who is one of the greatest living poets of the Duwasir tribe in southern Najd. His name is cAbdallah...

Metrical problems of the contemporary Bedouin 'qasida': a linguistic approach. (Arab Folklore)
April 1, 1993... Key words: Bedouin poetry -- oral scansion -- accentual metrics -- quantitative metrics -- Bedouin dialect groups -- Nabati poetry EVER since Albert Socin presented a metrical analysis of his collection of 116 poems (1900-01), most of them...

Debate in the improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians. (Arab Folklore)
April 1, 1993... Key words: improvised poetry -- poetic debate -- line dance -- folk poet -- singer -- cataba -- hida -- mcanna -- qarradi -- qasidih INTRODUCTION THE improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians is an established living tradition of...

The agricultural marker stars in Yemeni folklore. (includes glossary) (Arab Folklore)
April 1, 1993... Key words: ethnoastronomy -- agriculture -- Yemen -- zodiac -- star calendar -- weather IN Arab tradition there is a fairly substantial literature on star names and weather lore, especially for the Arabian Peninsula.(1) Pre-Islamic poetry...

Bengali folk rhymes: an introduction.
April 1, 1993... Key words: folk rhyme -- Bengali language -- folk literature -- oral transmission INTRODUCTION BENGALI, one of the Indo-Aryan languages,(1) developed from Sanskrit and the Prakrit languages. There is a difference of opinion...

Runs in folktales and the dynamics of Turkish runs: a case study.
April 1, 1993... Key words: folktale runs -- formulas -- schemata -- cognitive signals -- folktale discourse -- linguistic forms INTRODUCTION THE word run is an alternative term used for the formulaic phrases in Homeric poetry. According to PARRY...

Banana republics and V.I. degrees: rethinking Indian folklore in a postcolonial world.
April 1, 1993... Key words: India -- history of folklore -- social change -- colonialism -- joke cycles -- positioned subjects IN their introduction to the volume, Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India (1986), Stuart Blackburn and A. K....

In memoriam: Mamitua Saber, 1922-1992. (includes bibliography) (Obituary)
April 1, 1993... DR. MAMITUA Saber, Dean of Research and professor of Mindanao State University in Marawi City, died Friday, 31 january 1992, and was buried the next day in solemn Muslim rites on the ancestral property of the royal family of Saber. He was...