Ancestors / / editor William H. Newell.

• Author: International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
• TeilnehmendeR: Newell, William H. 1922-; International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague : : Mouton,, 1976.
• Year of Publication: 1976
• Language: English
• Series: World anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Table of Contents

An introductory commentary / by Meyer Fortes -- Good and bad ancestors / by William H. Newell -- Who are the "ancestors" in Japan? : a 1963 census of memorial tablets / by Robert J. Smith -- A structural analysis of Japanese ancestral rites and beliefs / by Herman Ooms -- Optional cult group affiliation among the Puyuma and Miyako islanders ; A note on ancestor worship in "cognatic" societies / by Toichi Mabuchi -- "Family religion" in Japan : Ie and its religious faith ; Recent trends in studies of ancestor worship in Japan / by Choshu Takeda -- Ancestor worship in Japan : facts and history / by Takashi Maeda -- Ancestors and nobility in ancient Japan / by Richard J. Miller -- Dozoku and ancestor worship in Japan / by Shoji Yonemura -- The malevolent ancestor : ancestral influence in a Japanese religious sect / by Karen Kerner -- Ancestral influence on the suffering of descendents in a Japanese cult / by Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- A note on the enshrinement of ancestral tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa / by Makio Matsuzono -- Ancestral memorialism : a comparison of Jews and Japanese / by Howard Wimberley and Joel Savishinsky -- Characteristic features of Ewe ancestor worship / by D.K. Fiawoo -- Ancestorcide! : are African ancestors dead? / by Victor C. Uchendu -- Youth as elders and infants as ancestors : the complementarity of alternate generations, both living and dead, in Tiriki, Kenya and Irigwe, Nigeria / by Walter H. Sangree -- Ancestors, geomancy, and mediums in Taiwan / by G. Seaman -- Prophylactic medicine and kin units among Yao ancestor worshipers / by Douglas Miles -- Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship : a further discussion / by Yih-yuan Li -- Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan / by Arthur P. Wolf -- Ancestors proper and peripheral / by Sung-hsing Wang -- The ancestors at home : domestic worship in a land-poor Taiwanese village / by C. Stevan Harrell.