Special Issue Honoring Professor Peter Knecht, editor of Asian Folklore Studies, 1980–2006
Editors' Introduction
Chilson, Clark and Scott Schnell
Rice: Representations and Reality
Knecht, Peter
Female Shamans in Eastern Japan during the Edo Period
Groemer, Gerald
The True History of Shido Temple
Tyler, Royall
The Making of Tōjin: Construction of the Other in Early Modern Japan
Suzuki Keiko
Onmyōji: Sex, Pathos, and Grotesquery in Yumemakura Baku’s Oni
Reider, Noriko T.
The Kwallye Samga of Korea: A Failed Attempt at Christian Accommodation to Confucian Culture
Grayson, James Huntley
The Man-Hunting Tiger: From “Wu Song Fights the Tiger” in Chinese Traditions
Børdahl, Vibeke
Notes on Blood Revenge among the Reindeer Evenki of Manchuria (Northeast China)
Heyne, F. Georg
Village Deities of Tamil Nadu in Myths and Legends: The Narrated Experience
Valk, Ülo and S. Lourdusamy
Ordinary Religion, Extraordinary Anthropology: The Contributions of Peter Knecht
Saitō Chie
How Ancient Is Lore: Southeast Asia Speaks Up
Metevelis, Peter
A Striking Tale of Weaving Taboos and Divine Retribution: A Reinterpretation of the Asauchiyama Myth in Harima Fudoki
Palmer, Edwina
The Namuyi: Linguistic and Cultural Features
Lakhi, Libu, Brook Hefright, and Kevin Stuart
Review of: The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska. Compiled by Wanni W. Anderson
Honda Shunwa [Stewart Henry]
Review of: Frank J. Korom, Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora
McNeal, Keith E.
Review of: D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the religious landscape of Premodern Japan
Kimbrough, R. Keller
Review of: Li Fuqing 李福清
Xiaohuan Zhao
Review of: Xiaohuan Zhao, Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History
Altenburger, Roland
Review of: Barend J. Ter Haar, Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Lee, Peace
Review of: Kevin Stuart, Keith W. Slater, Wang Xianzhen et al., Folktales of China’s Minhe Mangghuer
Dwyer, Arienne M.
Review of: Les Contes facétieux du cadavre, Translation by Françoise Robin with the collaboration of Klu Rgyal Tshe Ring
Berglie, Per-Arne
Review of: Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid, eds., Việt nam: Borderless Histories
Miyazawa Chihiro
Review of: Thomas L. Cooper, Sacred Painting in Bali: Tradition in Transition
Haruya Kagami
Review of: Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, and Lalita Handoo, eds., Gender and Story in South India
Davis, Coralynn V.
Review of: Shusha Guppy, The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia
Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona
Review of: Vafsi Folk Tales: Twenty Four Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton. Transcription, translation, and annotation by Donald L. Stilo
Márkus-Takeshita, Kinga Ilona