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