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Asian Ethnology [formerly Asian Folklore Studies]
Number 68, Volume2, 2009
Power, Authority, and Contested Hegemony in
Burmese-Myanmar Religion
Guest editors: Hiroko Kawanami & Bénédicte Brac de
la Perrière
Introduction: Power, Authority, and Contested
Hegemony in Burmese-Myanmar Religion. [177–183]
Kawanami, Hiroko
An Overview of the Field of Religion
in Burmese Studies. [185–210]
Brac de la Perrière, Bénédicte
Charisma, Power(s), and the Arahant
Ideal in Burmese-Myanmar Buddhism. [211–237]
Kawanami, Hiroko
The Cult of Thamanya Sayadaw: The
Social Dynamism of a Formulating Pilgrimage Site.
[239–264]
Tosa, Keiko
On the Ambivalence of Female
Monasticism in Theravāda Buddhism: A Contribution to
the Study of the Monastic System in Myanmar.
[265–282]
Carbonnel, Laure
“Nats’ Wives” or “Children of Nats”:
From Spirit Possession to Transmission Among the
Ritual Specialists of the Cult of the Thirty-Seven
Lords. [283–305]
Brac de la Perrière, Bénédicte
A New Palace for Mra Swan Dewi:
Changes in Spirit Cults in Arakan (Rakhine) State.
[307–332]
de Mersan, Alexandra
Relics, Statues, and Predictions:
Interpreting an Apocryphal Sermon of Lord Buddha in
Arakan. [333–364]
Leider, Jacques P.
Asian Ethnology [formerly Asian Folklore Studies]
Number 68, Volume 1, 2009
“What’s Written on the Forehead Will
Never Fail”: Karma, Fate, and Headwriting in Indian
Folktales. [1-26]
Kent, Eliza F.
The Most Revered of Foxes: Knowledge
of Animals and Animal Power in an Ainu “Kamui Yukar”.
[27-54]
Strong, Sarah M.
National Pantheon, Regional Deities,
Personal Spirits? Mushindo, Sŏngsu, and the Nature
of Korean Shamanism. [55-80]
Walraven, Boudewijn
“By the Sweetness of the Tongue”:
Duty, Destiny, and Devotion in the Oral Life
Narratives of Female “Sādhus” in Rajasthan. [81-109]
DeNapoli, Antoinette E.
Local Knowledge Constructed by the
State: Reinterpreting Myths and Imagining the
Migration History of the Lahu in Yunnan, Southwest
China. [111-129]
Ma Jianxiong
Re-visioning Gendered Folktales in
Novels by Mia Yun and Nora Okja Keller. [131-150]
Sung-Ae Lee
Review of: Lorie Brau, “Rakugo:
Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in
Contemporary Tokyo”. [151-154]
Groemer, Gerald
Review of: Kunio Yanagita, “The
Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition”.
[154-156]
Eubanks, Charlotte
Review of: Kelly M. Foreman, “The Gei
of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning”. [157-159]
Groemer, Gerald
Review of: Simon Mills, “Healing
Rhythms: The World of South Korea’s East Coast
Hereditary Shamans”. [160-161]
Pettid, Michael J.
Review of: Heonik Kwon, “After the
Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and
My Lai”. [162-165]
Bodemer, Margaret B.
Review of: Sudha Chandola, “Entranced
by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion”.
[165-167]
Manring, Rebecca J.
Review of: Shankar Narayana D.
Poojary, trans., “Epic of the Warriors” (Kōti
Chennaya Pārdana). [167-169]
Jason, Heda
Review of: Karl Reichl, ed. and
trans., “Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed
by Jumabay Bazarov”. [170-173]
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