Seeking the koko’ ta’ay : : Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond /

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
TeilnehmendeR:
Karalekas, Dean,
Openshaw, Tobie,
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.

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