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Asian Folklore Studies
Number 65, Volume 2, 2006

Introduction. [129-132]
Knecht, Peter

The Fox in World Literature: Reflections on a “Fictional Animal”. [133-160]
Uther, Hans-Jörg

Myths and Traditional Beliefs about the Wolf and the Crow in Central Asia: Examples from the Turkic Wu-Sun and the Mongols. [161-77]
Namu jila

Preaching the Animal Realm in Late Medieval Japan. [179-204]
Kimbrough, R. Keller

Symbolic Animals in the Land between the Waters: Markers of Place and Transition. [205-39]
Wessing, Robert

Embodying Evil and Bad Luck: Stray Notes on the Folklore of Bats in Southwest Asia. [241-47]
Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim

Culture and Knowledge of the Sacred Instrument Qeej in the Mong-American Community. [249-67]
Thao, Yer J.

Ema Shū’s “The Mountain Folk”: Fictionalized Ethnography and Veiled Dissent. [269-321]
Schnell, Scott

Narrative “Lore” and Legend from Saurashtra (India): Gems Waiting to be Polished. [323-37]
Sircar, Sanjay

Review of: Margaret Read MacDonald, “Ten Traditional Tellers”. [339-40]
Leete, Art

Review of: John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom, ed. and trans., “Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays & Poems” [340-44]
Kaneko, Erika

Review of: Thomas David DuBois, “The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China”. [346-49]
Penny, Benjamin

Review of: Vincent Goossaert, “L’interdit du boeuf en Chine. Agriculture, éthique et sacrifice”. [346-49]
Capdeville-Zeng, Catherine

Review of: Richard Von Glahn, “The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture”. [349-51]
McGee, Neil Edward

Review of: Lam Tuyen Tinh, translated and annotated by Honda Mamoru, “LangBiang no jiseki: Betonamu Chūbu shōsūminzoku no kodenshō”. [351-53]
Phong, Nguyen Anh

Review of: Philipus Tule, “Longing for the House of God, Dwelling in the House of the Ancestors: Local Belief and Christianity, and Islam among the Kéo of Central Flores”. [353-21]
Aoki, Eriko

Review of: Gongboo Sayrung (author), Losang Sodnum and Tsepakgyap (illustrations), “Tibetan Childhood”; Guhruh (author) and Tsepakgyap (illustrations), “Jahzong: Tibetan Tribal Hero”; Puhua Dongzhi, “Tibetan Village Wedding” (DVD), “The Perfection of Wisdom” (DVD), “Tibetan Woman’s Life” (DVD) [356-58]
Roche, Gerald

Review of: Sagram Santosh Kumar Soren, comp. “Santalia: Catalogue of Santali Manuscripts in Oslo”. [358-60]
Mathur, Nita

Review of: Giovanni Canova, ed. “Studies on Arab Epics: Oriente Moderno”. [360-62]
Nasr, Ahmad A.

Review of: Sayyid Hamid Hurreiz, “Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates”. [362-64]
Varisco, Daniel Martin

 

 

Asian Folklore Studies
Number 65, Volume 1, 2006

On the Wings of a Bird: Folklore, Nativism, and Nostalgia in Meiji Letters. [1-20]
Eubanks, Charlotte

Pipit Rochijat’s Subversive Mythologies: The Suharto Era and Beyond. [21-44]
Clark, Marshall

“Homo narrans” in East Java: Regional Myths and Local Concerns. [45-68]
Wessing, Robert

Symbolism of Hairstyles in Korea and Japan. [69-86]
Choi Na-Young

Obituary: Walther Heissig (1913-2005). [87-93]
Taube, Erika

Review of: Hans-Jörg Uther, “The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson”. [97-98]
Naithani, Sadhana

Review of: Theodore C. Bestor, Tsukiji: “The Fish Market at the Center of the World”. [98-100]
Schnell, Scott

Review of: Moo-Sook Hahn, “And So Flows History”. [100-101]
Pettid, Michael J.

Review of: Chan E. Park, “Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing”. [101-103]
Walraven, Boudewijn

Review of: Stevan Harrell, “Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China”. [103-106]
Sano Kenji

Review of: Huang Qiang 黄強 and Se Yin 色音, “Samanjiao tushuo” 『薩滿教圖説』 [106-108]
Pang, Tatiana A.

Review of: Jugui Limusishiden and Kevin Stuart, “Huzhu Mongghul Folklore: Texts and Translations”; Jugui Limusishiden and Kevin Stuart, “Huzhu Mongghul Texts: Chileb 1983–1996 Selections”. [108-12]
Dwyer, Arienne

Review of: Erika Taube, “Volksmärchen der Mongolen. Aus dem Mongolischen, Russischen und Chinesischen übersetzt und herausgegeben”. [112-14]
Birtalan, Ágnes

Review of: Sew’jan I. Weinshtein, “Geheimnisvolles Tuwa. Expeditionen in das Herz Asiens”. [114-16]
Knecht, Peter

Review of: Caroline Brewer, “Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines”, 1521–1685. [116-18]
Kawada Makito

Review of: Alexander K. Adelaar, “Salako or Badameà: Sketch Grammar, Texts and Lexicon of a Kanayatn Dialect in West Borneo”. [119-21]
Sather, Clifford

Review of: Renato Rosaldo, “Cultural Citizenship in IslandSoutheast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands”. [121-23]
Saitō Chie

Review of: A. Frenz and K. K. Marar, “Wall Paintings in North Kerala/India: 1000 Years of TempleArt”. [123-25]
Hauser, Beatrix

Review of: Susan L. Schwartz, “Rasa: Performing the Divine in India”. [125-27]
Konishi Masatoshi A.