Ainu Spirits Singing : : The Living World of Chiri Yukie's Ainu Shin'yoshu /

Ainu Spirits Singing : : The Living World of Chiri Yukie's Ainu Shin'yoshu / / Sarah M. Strong.

Indigenous peoples throughout the globe are custodians of a unique, priceless, and increasingly imperiled legacy of oral lore. Among them the Ainu, a people native to northeastern Asia, stand out for the exceptional scope and richness of their oral performance traditions. Yet despite this cultural w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Strong, Sarah M.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 23 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Chiri Yukie and the Origins of the Ainu Shin'yōshū
  • 2. The Living World of the Ainu Shin'yōshū
  • 3. The Ainu Social Landscape
  • 4. Weighty Animal Spirits and Important Game Animals
  • 5. Symbolic and Ordinary Animal Spirits
  • 6. Chiri Yukie's Ainu Shin'yōshū
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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