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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1979 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
World anthropology
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110805314 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110805314.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (415 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110805314 |
| Index Number: | BL467 |
| CLC: | B928.2 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- 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 -- D zoku 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 |