Carmen Blacker : : Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections /

Carmen Blacker : : Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore: Writings and Reflections / / ed. by Hugh Cortazzi.

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore – her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. Importantly, a third of the volume comprises significant extracts from the au...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Breen, John,
Cortazzi, Hugh,
Keene, Donald,
Kornicki, Peter,
Loewe, Michael,
Mcmullen, James,
Mizutori, Mami,
Toshio, Yokoyama,
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki,
Yokoyama, Toshio,
HerausgeberIn:
Cortazzi, Hugh,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Carmen Blacker – Friend, Scholar and Wife
  • Contributors
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Plates
  • PART I: CARMEN BLACKER AS SEEN BY HER FRIENDS
  • 1. Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924 –2009: A Biographical Memoir
  • 2. Biographical Portrait
  • 3. Memories of Carmen Blacker
  • 4. Words from HUGH CORTAZZI at Carmen Blacker’s Memorial Meeting
  • PART II: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CARMEN BLACKER’S DIARIES AND OTHER AUTOBIOGRAPHICALWRITINGS
  • Carmen Blacker's Introduction to her Collected writings
  • Introductions Carmen Blacker's Diaries
  • Extracts from the diaries
  • PART III: SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS BY CARMEN BLACKER
  • 5. Three Great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow
  • 6. Marie Stopes
  • 7. Arthur Waley
  • 8. Minakata Kumagusu
  • 9. Yoshio Markino
  • 10. Christmas Humphreys
  • 11. Cambridge Women
  • PART IV: SELECTED ACADEMIC WRITINGS
  • 12. The Shinza or God-seat in the Daijosai: Throne, Bed or Incubation Couch?
  • 13. Divination and Oracles in Japan
  • 14. The Goddess Emerges from her Cave: Fujita Himiko and her Dragon Palace Family
  • 15. The Exiled Warrior and the Hidden Village
  • 16. Extracts from Legends of Heike Villages: The Fugitive Warrior as Ancestor
  • 17. The Language of Birds
  • 18. The Angry Ghost in Japan
  • PART V: SELECTED CARMEN BLACKER LECTURES
  • 19. Remembering Carmen Blacker
  • 20. A Glimpse of the Modestly Literate Picnic Lovers of Old Japan
  • 21. Tsushima: Japan Viewed from the Margins – Archives, Books, Ginseng
  • 22. Amaterasu’s Progress: The Ise Shrines and the Public Sphere of Post-war Japan
  • 23. Unofficial and Commoner Worship od Confucius in Tokugawa Japan
  • PART VI: A CELEBRATORY ESSAY
  • 24. The Search for the Numinous in Wordsworth and Coleridge: Some Hints from The Catalpa Bow
  • APPENDIX: Carmen’s Literary Gift. Compiled by PAUL NORBURY
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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