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Ancestors / / ed. by William H. Newell.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
MitwirkendeR:
FIAWOO, D. K.,
FORTES, MEYER,
HARRELL, C. STEVAN,
KERNER, KAREN,
LEBRA, TAKIE SUGIYAMA,
LI, YIH-YUAN,
MABUCHI, TOICHI,
MAEDA, TAKASHI,
MATSUZONO, MAKIO,
MILES, DOUGLAS,
MILLER, RICHARD J.,
NEWELL, WILLIAM H.,
OOMS, HERMAN,
SANGREE, WALTER H.,
SAVISHINSKY, JOEL,
SEAMAN, G.,
SMITH, ROBERT J.,
TAKEDA, C.,
TAKEDA, CHOSHU,
UCHENDU, VICTOR C.,
WANG, SUNG-HSING,
WIMBERLEY, HOWARD,
WOLF, ARTHUR P.,
YONEMURA, SHOJI,
HerausgeberIn:
Newell, William H.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1979
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (403 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs. 15 plates
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • General Editor's Preface
  • Preface
  • An Introductory Commentary
  • Good and Bad Ancestors
  • SECTION ONE
  • Who Are the "Ancestors" in Japan? A 1963 Census of Memorial Tablets
  • A Structural Analysis of Japanese Ancestral Rites and Beliefs
  • Optional Cult Group Affiliation Among the Puyuma and the Miyako Islanders
  • A Note on Ancestor Worship in "Cognatic" Societies
  • "Family Religion" in Japan: Ie and Its Religious Faith
  • Recent Trends in Studies of Ancestor Worship in Japan
  • Ancestor Worship in Japan: Facts and History
  • Ancestors and Nobility in Ancient Japan
  • Dōzoku and Ancestor Worship in Japan
  • The Malevolent Ancestor: Ancestral Influence in a Japanese Religious Sect
  • Ancestral Influence on the Suffering of Descendants in a Japanese Cult
  • A Note on the Enshrinement of Ancestral Tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa
  • Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese
  • SECTION TWO
  • Characteristic Features of Ewe Ancestor Worship
  • Ancestorcide! Are African Ancestors Dead?
  • Youth as Elders and Infants as Ancestors: The Complementarity of Alternate Generations, Both Living and Dead, in Tiriki, Kenya, and Irigwe, Nigeria
  • SECTION THREE
  • Ancestors, Geomancy, and Mediums in Taiwan
  • Prophylactic Medicine and Kin Units Among Yao Ancestor Worshipers
  • Chinese Geomancy and Ancestor Worship: A Further Discussion
  • Aspects of Ancestor Worship in Northern Taiwan
  • Ancestors Proper and Peripheral
  • The Ancestors at Home: Domestic Worship in a Land-Poor Taiwanese Village
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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