Asian Folklore Studies articles from October 1993

Asian Folklore Studies archives from October 1993

Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative.
October 1, 1993... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. xi + 148 pages. Figures, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth US$25.00; ISBN 0-253-33515-9. In his review of the folkloristics of the last few decades, Roger D. Abrahams characterized American...

Contests.
October 1, 1993... Cosmos, the Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society, volume 6. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. 173 pages. Maps, figures, tables. Paper 20.00[pounds]; ISBN 0-7486-0199-6. The present volume, the sixth yearbook of the...

The Evil Eye: A Casebook.
October 1, 1993... Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. ix+318 pages. Cloth US$55.00; ISBN 0-290--13330-3. Paper US$14.95; ISBN 0-299-13334-6. The Evil Eye contains twenty essays by as many scholars, assembled by the editor from a wide variety of...

Cinderella's Gold Slipper: Spiritual Symbolism in the Grimm's Tales.
October 1, 1993... Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1991. xvii+223 pages. Illustrations, appendix. Paper US$11.95; ISBN 0-8356-1/272-4. Samuel Fohr proclaims in his introduction to Cinderella's Gold Slipper that he is going to...

Principles for Oral Narrative Research.
October 1, 1993... Translated by Kirsten Wolf and Jody Jensen. Folklore Studies in Translation, edited by Dan Ben-Amos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xxviii+ 210 pages. Appendix, information, and references by Hans Ellekilde, bibliography by...

Nihon mukashibanashi tsukan, vol. 28, Mukashibanashi taipu indekusu.
October 1, 1993... Mukashibanashi taipu indekusu 28, [General survey and analysis of Japanese folktales, vol. 28: A type index of folktales]. Kyoto: Dohosha, 1988. vii+742+98+6 pages. Cloth [yen]16,000; ISBN 4-8104-0712-8. (In Japanese, with English summary) ...

The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality.
October 1, 1993... New York: The Free Press, a division of Macmillan Inc., 1993. xii+304 pages. Appendix, notes, index. Cloth US$24.95; ISBNO-02-932315-0. Western studies on the "Japanese woman" have become more specialized and objective in recent years, but...

Nihon minkandensho no genryu: Nihon kisobunka no tankyu.
October 1, 1993... Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1989. 590+vi pages. Tables, diagrams. Cloth [yen]7,110;ISBN 4-09-390081-7. (In Japanese) This work represents the proceedings of the sixth symposium in a series on the comparative study of the sources of Japanese folk...

Ryobosei to takaikan.
October 1, 1993... Nihon Rekishi Minzoku Sosho [Collection of Japanese history and folklore]. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1991. 326 pages. Illustrations, tables, figures, maps, index. Hardcover [yen]5,850; ISBN 4-642-07351-5. (In Japanese) The present volume...

Yoshitoshi's Thirty-Six Ghosts.
October 1, 1993... Introduction by Donald Richie. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. 92 pages. 50 illustrations (49 in color), bibliography. Cloth US$29.95; ISBN 0-295-97170-3. History often moves in cycles, with features of antiquity recurring...

The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music.
October 1, 1993... Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1992. xvii+155 pages. Photographs, tables, music examples, glossary, bibliography, select discography, index. Hardcover US$30.00; ISBN 0-87338-455-5. Music for the pipa a Chinese lute)...

Darangen: In Original Maranao Verses, with English Translation, vol. 5.
October 1, 1993... Marawi City, the Philippines: University Research Center, Mindanao State University, 1992. 386 pages. ISBN 971-111-052-0. The Darangen is the folk epic of the Maranao, the Muslim people who live in the Lake Lanao area of central Mindanao....

Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs and Customs, vol. 1, Actions to Feasts and Celebrations.
October 1, 1993... Volume 1: Actions to Feasts and Celebrations. 11+702 pages, with glossary, appendix, references and index. Volume 2: Folk Medicine to Weaponry. 11+634 pages, with glossary, appendix, references and index. Cagayan de Oro City, R. P.: Xavier...

Thai Ahoms and the Stars: Three Ritual Texts to Ward off Danger.
October 1, 1993... Studies on Southeast Asia 10. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. vi + 170 pages. Tables, illustrations, facsimile of manuscripts, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper US$16.00; ISBN 0-87727-709-5. For decades,...

Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought.
October 1, 1993... In Memory of Richard B. Davis. Canberra: The Richard Davis Fund and the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1992. 342 pages. Map, figures, line drawings, references, index. ISBN...

The Life of a Text: Performing the 'Ramacaritmanas' of Tulsidas.
October 1, 1993... A Philip E. Lilienthal Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 469 pages. Glossary of names, bibliography, index, illustrations. Hardcover US$48.00; ISBN 0-520-06690-1. The Ramacaritmanas is a sixteenth-century retelling...

Kachina Dolls: The Art of Hopi Carvers.
October 1, 1993... Historical photographs by Hanna Forman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. xvi + 160 pages. Photographs, color plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth US$29.95; ISBN 0-8165-1226-4. Almost everyone has had the experience of...

A Turkish poem by Serifi.
October 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION THROUGHOUT the Ottoman period, Ottoman poets assembled Turkish, Arabic, and Persian proverbs in proverb poems, designed as guides to conduct and compendiums of wisdom and experience. In the proverb poem by Serifi translated...

Kaundinya, Preah Thaong, and the "Nagi Soma": some aspects of a Cambodian legend.
October 1, 1993... THE LEGEND THE following legend is found in the report of the Chinese official Zhou Daguan, who traveled to the medieval empire of Cambodia (or Angkor) in the years 1296-97: Inside the palace area is a golden tower at the...

Icons of the person: Lacan's "imago" in the Yemeni male's tribal wedding. (Jacques Lacan)
October 1, 1993... "When a man participates in a ritual he becomes in a way a perfected version of himself" (Riesman 1977, 173) INTRODUCTION "PERFORMANCE" has been a key concept in folklore studies ever since Richard Bauman (1978)...