Seeking the koko’ ta’ay : : Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond / / edited by Tobie Openshaw and Dean Karalekas.
This volume, edited by Tobie Openshaw and Dean Karalekas, will guide you on a multidisciplinary journey through Indigenous peoples’ centuries-old lore of “little people” in Taiwan and the Pacific. Learn about the Taiwan SaiSiyat people’s paSta’ay ritual , still held to this day to commemorate the ko...
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Superior document: | Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2025. ©2025 |
Year of Publication: | 2025 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Brill Series in Taiwan Studies ; 2. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Sharing Legends of Short-Statured People across Space and Time
- David Blundell
- Acknowledgements
- Tobie Openshaw
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acronyms
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Myth and Mystery
- Tobie Openshaw
- 1 The Vanishing Dwarf
- Domas Ayang
- 2 Pre-Neolithic Populations as Inspiration for Taiwan’s Mythical Little People
- A Survey of the Available Evidence
- Paul Jen-kuei Li
- 3 Tracing Negritos and Their Paths in Ancient Taiwan
- New Findings Raise More Questions
- Hsiao-chun Hung, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Mike T. Carson
- 4 Do Formosanisms in Austronesian Languages Originate from a Substrate of Taiwan’s Earliest Inhabitants?
- Roger Blench
- 5 Negrito Populations of Insular and Peninsular Southeast Asia
- P. Bion Griffin
- 6 Ljeljeman and Her Short Friends
- Kereker Palakurulj
- 7 The Place of koko’ ta’ay among the Saisiyat People
- The Origin of the Legend and Its Instantiation in the PaSta’ay
- Liu Yu-ling
- 8 Ritual Tools, Ritual Songs, and the ta’ay
- A Lexicon of the PaSta’ay
- Lancini Jen-hao Cheng
- 9 A History of Research into the Little People
- Finding Patterns in the Formosan Dwarf Legends
- Liu Yu-ling
- 10 Makasino
- Lulyang Nomin
- 11 The Primordial Little People Tale-Type
- Tracing Pacific Dwarf Myths throughout the Austronesian Expansion
- Dean Karalekas
- 12 What Ancient Taiwanese Negritos Might Tell Us about Mystery Hominoids in Indonesia
- Gregory Forth
- 13 Walking with Dvorovoi
- A History of European Imagery of Little People
- Igor Sitnikov
- Index.