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Titolo: | Ancestors / / editor, William H. Newell |
Pubblicazione: | The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1976 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (426 pages) : illustrations |
Soggetto topico: | Ancestor worship |
Ancestor worship - Japan | |
Classificazione: | LB 40000 |
Altri autori: | NewellWilliam H <1922-> (William Hare) |
Note generali: | Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | An introductory commentary / by Meyer Fortes -- Good and bad ancestors / by William H. Newell -- Who are the "ancestors" in Japan? : a 1963 census of memorial tablets / by Robert J. Smith -- A structural analysis of Japanese ancestral rites and beliefs / by Herman Ooms -- Optional cult group affiliation among the Puyuma and Miyako islanders ; A note on ancestor worship in "cognatic" societies / by Toichi Mabuchi -- "Family religion" in Japan : Ie and its religious faith ; Recent trends in studies of ancestor worship in Japan / by Choshu Takeda -- Ancestor worship in Japan : facts and history / by Takashi Maeda -- Ancestors and nobility in ancient Japan / by Richard J. Miller -- Dōzoku and ancestor worship in Japan / by Shoji Yonemura -- The malevolent ancestor : ancestral influence in a Japanese religious sect / by Karen Kerner -- Ancestral influence on the suffering of descendents in a Japanese cult / by Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- A note on the enshrinement of ancestral tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa / by Makio Matsuzono -- Ancestral memorialism : a comparison of Jews and Japanese / by Howard Wimberley and Joel Savishinsky -- Characteristic features of Ewe ancestor worship / by D.K. Fiawoo -- Ancestorcide! : are African ancestors dead? / by Victor C. Uchendu -- Youth as elders and infants as ancestors : the complementarity of alternate generations, both living and dead, in Tiriki, Kenya and Irigwe, Nigeria / by Walter H. Sangree -- Ancestors, geomancy, and mediums in Taiwan / by G. Seaman -- Prophylactic medicine and kin units among Yao ancestor worshipers / by Douglas Miles -- Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship : a further discussion / by Yih-yuan Li -- Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan / by Arthur P. Wolf -- Ancestors proper and peripheral / by Sung-hsing Wang -- The ancestors at home : domestic worship in a land-poor Taiwanese village / by C. Stevan Harrell. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ancestors |
ISBN: | 3-11-080531-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828515203321 |
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