Special Issue: Revitalizing Japanese Folklore
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Revitalizing Japanese Folklore
Schnell, Scott and Hashimoto Hiroyuki
Cultural Diversity and Folklore Studies in Japan: A Multiculturalist Approach
Shimamura Tomonari
Between Preservation and Tourism: Folk Performing Arts in Contemporary Japan
Hashimoto Hiroyuki
Folktale Research After Yanagita: Development and Related Issues
Kawamori Hiroshi
A Female Shaman’s Mind and Body, and Possession
Kawamura Kunimitsu
On Cognitive Aspects of Rhetorical Time Reckoning: Metaphor and Image-Schema in Calendrical Divination in Okinawa
Sensui Hidekazu
Review of: Lauri Honko, The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics
Jason, Heda
Review of: Ingrid Fritsch, Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music (1901–1913)
Groemer, Gerald
Review of: Gloria Ganz Gonick, Matsuri! : Japanese Festival Arts
Knecht, Peter
Review of: Honda Katsuichi, Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale
Wöhr, Ulrike
Review of: Li Fuqing, Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi
McLaren, Anne
Review of: Richard E. Strassberg, A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas
Kardos, Michael A.
Review of: Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities
Tongeren, Mark van
Review of: Clifford Sather, Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants
Uchibori Motomitsu
Review of: Bernard Sellato, Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures
Sather, Clifford
Review of: Alexander M. Dubianski, Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry
Ramanathan, Aru and Ezhilavan Ramanathan
Review of: Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales
Valk, Ülo
Review of: Martine van Woerkens, The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginations and the Thugs of India
Naithani, Sadhana