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CONTENTS ASIAN FOLKLORE STUDIES Volume L, 1991 ARTICLES Special Issue: FOLKLORE, POLITICS, AND NATION- ALISM. Guest Editor: James R. DOW Foreword James R. Dow Politics and Folktale in the Classical World James S. RUEBEL Tungus Literary Language (with Introductory Notes by INOUE | RT ee mL ne eT S. M. SHIROKOGOROFF Concerning the Traditional Understanding of ‘‘ Folk Culture” in the German Democratic Republic. A Scholarly- Historical Retrospective Wolfgang JACOBEIT The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Umbrella Organ- izations of German Volkskunde during the Third Reich. Hannjost LIxXFELD National Socialistic Folklore and Overcoming the Past in the Federal Republic of Germany James R. Dow and Hannjost LIxFELD Momotar6 (The Peach Boy) and the Spirit of Japan: Con- cerning the Function of a Fairy Tale in Japanese Nation- alism of the Early Showa Age Klaus ANTONI Cultural Metaphors and Reasoning: Folklore Scholarship and Ideology in Contemporary China Sue TUOHY Woman as Portrayed in Women’s Folk Songs of North India Witt misinah 5Gdaten ane eieie ae ses eae I. Srivastava 269 Proverbs as Psychological Interpretations among Vietnamese Nguyén Neuyén, Edward F. Fou.ks, Kathleen Carin 311 Near-Death Folklore in Medieval China and Japan: A Com- od tks eenba5st egenskne s James McC enon 319 ISSUES Thoughts on Ebersole’s Allegations Peter METEVELIS 221 OBITUARY In Memoriam: Fanny Hagin Mayer, 1899-1990 CONTENTS COMMUNICATIONS IRs 5s a w ee EES Abe BNO Cua 227, 349 Reports BOOK REVIEWS GENERAL Ethnic Humor around the World: A Comparative Analysis. By Christie Davies. (David R. Mayer) Polytheistic Systems. Edited by Glenys Davies. (Jan Swyngedouw) Folklore Matters. By Alan Dundes. (Jén Hnefill Adalsteinsson) Cinderella: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook. Edited by Alan Dundes. (Chieko Mulhern) The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol. By James Jakéb Liszka. (James Heisig) Rotkadppchen. Eine vergleichende Mdrchenuntersuchung [Little Red Riding Hood: A comparative study]. By Marianne Rumpf. (Walter Scherf).... Theatre in Search of Social Change: The Relative Significance of Different Theatrical Approaches. By Kees P. Epskamp. (Tan Sooi Beng) Geinéd no jinruigaku [Anthropology of artistic performance]. By Himeno Midori. (John K. Gillespie) Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature. By Wolfgang Mieder. (Araki Hiroyuki) Lives between Cultures: A Study of Human Nature, Identity and Culture. By Richard M. Swiderski. (Peter Knecht) “* That Must Have Been ESP!’’ An Examination of Psychic Experiences. By Leea Virtanen. (Elémire Zolla) Myths of the Dog-Man. By David Gordon White. JAPAN Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home. By Michael Jeremy and M. E. Robinson. (Richard Zgusta) Symbolic Values of Foreign Language Use: From the Japanese Case to a Gen- eral Sociolinguistic Perspective. By Harald Haarmann. (Keiko Abe) Rakugo, the Popular Narrative Art of Japan. By Heinz Morioka and Miyoko Sasaki. (Fumiko Y. and Akira Y. Yamamoto) KOREA Over the Mountains are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptation to Rapid Industrialization. By Clark W. Sorensen. (Ité Abito) A Korean Storyteller’s Miscellany: The P’aegwan chapki of O Sukkwin. By Peter H. Lee. (Brian A. Wilson) CHINA Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual: ‘‘ Mu-lien Rescues His Mother’’ in Chinese Popular Culture. Edited by David Johnson. (Ursula-Angelika Cedzich) CONTENTS China’s Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture. By Ronald C. Knapp. (Richard Zgusta) The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight. By Robert Joe Cutter. (Sdégawa Tsuneo) La moelle du phénix rouge. Santé et longue vie dans la Chine du XVI siécle [The marrow of the red phoenix. Health and long life in sixteenth- century China]. By Catherine Despeux. (Livia Kohn) Salazu fengsuzhi [Records of Salar customs]. By Ma Xueyi and Ma Cheng- jun. Salazu minjian gushi [Salar folktales]. General Editor Han Fude. Minjian geyao [Folk songs]. General Editor Han Fude. Minjian yanyu [Folk proverbs]. General Editor Han Fude. (Feng Lide and Kevin Stuart) Ubernatiirliche Wesen im Glauben der Altvélker Taiwans [Supernatural beings in the belief of Formosan aborigines]. By Yukiko Bischof-Okubo. (Thomas H. Héllmann) VIETNAM Under the Starfruit Tree: Folktales from Vietnam. By Alice M. Terada. (John F. Hartmann) Dong Son Drums in Viet Nam. Editorial Board, The Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology and the Department for International Cooperation of the Social Science Committee of Viet Nam. (Helmut Loofs-Wissowa) THAILAND Folk Tales from Kammu—IV: A Master-Teller’s Tales. By Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin. (Grant A. Olson) From Lawa to Mon, from Saa’ to Thai: Historical and Anthropological Aspects of Southeast Asian Social Space. By Georges Condominas. (Jacques Lemoine) PHILIPPINES Drone and Melody: Musical Thought in Southeast Asia. By José Maceda. Edited and translated by Yaji Takahashi. (Midori D. Himeno) INDONESIA Die soziale Realitdt des Rituals. Kontinuitat und Wandel bei den Makassar von Gowa (Siid-Sulawesi/Indonesien) [The social reality of ritual: Con- tinuity and change among the Makassar of Gowa]. By Martin Réssler. (Doris Grépper, The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia. Roxana Waterson. (Gaudenz Domenig) Wayang Puppets: Carving, Colouring, Symbolism. By R.L. Mellema. (Ward Keeler) CENTRAL ASIA Drevnie obryady verovaniya i kul’ty narodov Sredneit Azii. Istoriko- etnograficheskie ocherki [Ancient rituals, beliefs, and cults of Central Asian peoples]. Edited by V. N. Basilov. (Ogihara Shinko) iv CONTENTS TIBET My Tibet. By His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. (Peter Knecht) Die Eroberung der Burg von Sum-Pa. Aus dem tibetischen Gesar Epos [The capture of the fortress of Sum-Pa. From the Tibetan Gesar epic]. By Rudolf Kaschewsky and Pema T'sering. (Michael Walter) INDIA Oral Epics in India. Edited by Stuart H. Blackburn, Peter J. Claus, Joyce B. Flueckiger, Susan S. Wadley. (Paula Richman) The Korkus of the Vindhya Hills. By Stephen Fuchs. (Dieter B. Kapp) The Cult of Draupadi, 1. Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra. By Alf Hiltebeitel. (Frank R. Podgorski) Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teach- ing. By Kirin Narayan. (Don Handelman) The Vedic Origins of Karma. Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual. By Herman W. Tull. (L.A. Hercus) Musical Instruments in Sculpture in Karnataka. By Chaitanya Deva. (Midori D. Himeno) Das Leben ist ein Tanz. Lieder der indischen Ureinwohner [Life is a dance. Songs of the tribals of India]. By Stefan Fuchs. (Traude Pillai- Vetschera) Arjuna in the Mahabharata: Where Krishna Is, There Is Victory. By Ruth Cecily Katz. (Cyril Veliath) Siva’s Warriors. The Basava Purana of Pdlkuriki Somanatha. Translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao. (Christina Tsuchida) ISRAEL Jewish Folklore between East and West. Collected Papers. By Haim Schwarz- baum. Edited and introduced by Eli Yassif. (Dan Ben-Amos) COMPREHENSIVE INDEX Volumes 1 (1942) to 50 (1991)