Asian Folklore Studies articles from April 2000

Asian Folklore Studies archives from April 2000

Introduction.
April 1, 2000... QINGHAI [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] PROVINCE is China's fourth largest major administrative region (province, autonomous region, special economic zone). It occupies a vast area in northwest China and is located southeast of...

Tibetan Tricksters.
April 1, 2000... Abstract Aa khu bstan pa, Aa tsi byivu mg and Ston pa shes rab, Rdzun khro lo, Nyi chos bzang bo, Vbrug pa kun legs, and Ge sar are Tibetan characters who act at times as tricksters. Aa khu bstan pa appears to be the best known of these,...

The Xunhua Salar Wedding.
April 1, 2000... MA WEI [CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] MA JIANZHONG [CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Abstract The Salar, one of China's fifty-six officially acknowledged nationalities, are a Turkic-speaking...

Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs Musical Characteristics.
April 1, 2000... QI HUIMIN [CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ZHU YONGZHONG [CHINESE CHARACTERS ARE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Abstract The musical characteristics of the noninstrumental Minhe Mangghuer wedding songs performed in...

"Laughing on the Beacon Tower" Spring Festival Songs from Qinghai.
April 1, 2000... DAI YANJING [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] QI HUIMIN [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ZHU YONGZHONG [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Abstract This article presents the songs sung in...

A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thog Village, Qinghai.
April 1, 2000... KALSANG NORBU (SKAL BZANG NOR BU) ZHU YONGZHONG [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Abstract The possible origins of Monguor (Tu) people in Tongren County, Rma lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, are discussed in the...

Folk Medicinal Plants of the Nagas in India.
April 1, 2000... Abstract Nagaland is a transborder state in India. It borders Myanmar and is inhabited by fourteen indigenous tribes, collectively known as the "Nagas." The aboriginal Naga tribes have a rich knowledge, based on their natural resources, of...

TAIWAN.
April 1, 2000... Re: POPULAR LITERATURE IN THE FU SSU-NIEN LIBRARY OF THE ACADEMIA SINICA OLD NEWS ABOUT THE "SUNKEN TREASURE" In the references to his article on Chinese "prosimetric literature" (prose-and-verse or narration-and-song literature) in...

GERMANY.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Re: NEW JOURNAL Ethnologia Balkanica is a new international journal that publishes ethnological and folkloristic studies related to Southeast Europe. It is the journal of the Association for Balkan Anthropology (ABA), a scholarly society...

RESPONSE.
April 1, 2000... Response to G. Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi Taste of Laughter: Aspects of Tamil Humour is a book on Tamil language jokes and tales in the Southern Indian language Tamil. It is written in English by an author living in Italy, and it is published in...

ASEAN Folk Literature: An Anthology.(Review)
April 1, 2000... EUGENIO, DAMIANA L., general editor. ASEAN Folk Literature: An Anthology. Manila: ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information, 1995. xvi + 813 pages. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index of titles, general index. (Not for sale) It...

Folkloristics: An Introduction.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Georges, Robert A. and Michael Owen Jones. Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. ix + 336 pages. Illustrations, musical examples, index. Cloth US$39.95; ISBN 0-253-32934-5. Paper US$19.95; ISBN...

Asian Popular Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2000... LENT, JOHN A., editor. Asian Popular Culture. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. International Communications and Popular Culture. 232 pages. Illustrations, index. Hardcover US$70.00; ISBN 0-8133-2048-8. Paper US$21.95; ISBN...

Shinto und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens (kokutai).(Review)
April 1, 2000... ANTONI, KLAUS. Shinto und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens (kokutai). Der religiose Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans. Handbuch der Orientalistik 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998. xii + 426 pages. Bibliography, index....

The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan.(Review)
April 1, 2000... ARNTZEN, SONJA, translator. The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies Number 19. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997. xv + 413 pages....

Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition.(Review)
April 1, 2000... KOMINZ, LAURENCE R. Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition. Michigan Monographs in Japanese Studies, Number 11. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1995. xiii + 282 pages....

Tatowierung ostasiatischer Art: Zu Sozialgeschichte und handwerklicher Ausfuhrung von gewerblichem Hautstich in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Japans.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Martischnig, Michael. Tatowierung ostasiatischer Art: Zu Sozialgeschichte und handwerklicher Ausfuhrung von gewerblichem Hautstich in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Japans. Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Gegenwartsvolkskunde Nr. 19. Wien: Verlag...

The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan.(Review)
April 1, 2000... THORNBURY, BARBARA E. The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xxi + 203 pages. Map, illustrations, appendix, bibliography Paper US$17.95; ISBN 0-7914-3256-4. ...

Bangx hxak: Miaozu guge gehua.(Review)
April 1, 2000... GUIZHOUSHENG MINZUSHIWU WEIYUANHUI MINZU YUWEN BANGONGSHI [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [Guizhou Province Nationalities Affairs Council, Nationalities Language Office], editors. Bangx hxak: Miaozu guge gehua [CHINESE CHARACTERS...

Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom.(Review)
April 1, 2000... KLEEMAN, TERRY F. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. x + 251 pages. Maps, illustrations, appendix of official titles and ranks, bibliography, index. Hardcover...

Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables.(Review)
April 1, 2000... MCLAREN, ANNE E. Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 41. Leiden: Brill, 1998. viii + 340 pages. Appendix (list of chantefables), bibliography, glossary of Chinese terms, index, 10 plates of chantefable...

Taiga, terre de chamans.(Review)
April 1, 2000... GARANGER, MARC (photographs); ROBERTE N. HAMAYON (text). Taiga, terre de chamans. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Editions, 1997. 215 pages. Photographs, maps, bibliography. Cloth Fr 450; ISBN 2-7433-0163-5. (In French) In Taiga, terre de...

Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society.(Review)
April 1, 2000... WEBB, KEANE. Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxix + 297 pages. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth US$50.00 (outside US...

Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability.(Review)
April 1, 2000... DUNDES, ALAN. Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997. xii + 162 pages. Bibliography. Hardcover n.p.; ISBN 0-8476-8456-3. Paper US$17.95; ISBN...

Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries.(Review)
April 1, 2000... MINER, ALLYN. Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Performing Arts Series Volume VII. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1997. 265 pages. Map, figures, plates, bibliography, index. Cloth Rs. 325; ISBN 81-208-1299-9. Paper Rs....

Bibliographien zu Slawisch-folkloristischem Schriftgut-ausgeswahlt aus dem.(Review)
April 1, 2000... ZIEL, WULFHILD, editor. Bibliographien zu Slawisch-folkloristischem Schriftgut--ausgewahlt aus dem Vpr;esimgsrepertoire von Vladimir Propp--und zu Slawischer Folklore und Folklore vom Balkan von Nikita I. Tolstoi, Ed. 2nd revised and enlarged...