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CONTENTS ASIAN FOLKLORE STUDIES Volume LVIII, 1999 ARTICLES Spectal Issue: FOLKLORE IN NORTHWEST CHINA Introduction Kevin STUART Tibetan Tricksters. KUN Mchog Dge Legs, DpaL Ldan Bkre Shis, Kevin STUART The Xunhua Salar Wedding ....Ma Wei, Ma Jianzhong, Kevin STUART Minhe Mangghuer Wedding Songs: Musical Characteristics. Qi Huimin, ZHU Yongzhong, Kevin STUART “Laughing on the Beacon Tower”: Spring Festival Songs from Qinghai. aes Wee eaet ees eae eee eee Dat Yanjing, Keith DEDE, Q! Huimin, ZHU Yongzhong, Kevin STUART A Ritual Winter Exorcism in Gnyan Thong Village, Qinghai. Kalsang Norbu (Skal Bzang Norbu), ZHU Yongzhong, Kevin STUART a FE I 5 ccssicde ithe ctnccsioiieieceod Gerald GROEMER A Stinger in the Tale: “The Sudden Awakening” Ending in East Asian PRRs cciecrinds casts tin ciectai eaten oaacaas Alan L. MILLER 3 Papercut Stories of the Manchu Woman Artist Hou Yumei. sunita shed ardt olda th inlet Wocanik yeah donee eibehak asii pa de dasha a The Social Significance of the Shaman among the Chinese Reindeer- I cok tina seeeiindnisance sacasnaneesnnanneniene cane F. Georg HEYNE Spotted Doves at War: The Praak Sangkiil. ..... Robert Knox DENTAN RESEARCH MATERIAL Folk Medicinal Plants of the Nagas in India. .......... Sapu CHANGKIJA COMMUNICATIONS PBRLMONUAIGONIIGEIES JS oo sacle eto Gita dose ddcnudcdedtc oats dantaauennuesaeceas 231, 435 PE biindpintidinntiuaiate Linnimcsncuetaiannsa 236 [i] ii CONTENTS BOOK REVIEWS GENERAL ASEAN Folkliterature: An Anthology. Damiana L. Eugenio, General Editor. (Kristina Lindell) Folkloristics: An Introduction. By Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones. (Jawaharlal Handoo) Asian Popular Culture. Edited by John A. Lent. (Siraporn Nathalang) Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Edited by Margaret DPISSIMPEI eaeO A PASON) |2 -055. 5k cn nsscnyoeeeesn site cadsoaasmnscasanainocweenaashencncsanlatwubanenaace! 437 Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asta: Selected Texts, Parallel Analysis and Comparative Approach. By Yen Ping-Chiu. (Jan-Ojvind Swahn) JAPAN Shint6 und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens (kokutai). Der religidse Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans. By Klaus Antoni. (Martin Repp) The Kagero Diary: A Woman's Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan. Translated by Sonja Arntzen. (John S. Brownlee) Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition. By Laurence R. Kominz. (Michael C. Brownstein) Tatowterung ostastatischer Art. Zu Soztalgeschichte und handwerklicher Ausftihrung von gewerblichem Hautstich in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Japans. By Michael Martischnig. (David R. Mayer) The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Cultures in Contemporary Japan. By Barbara E. Thornbury. (Irit Averbuch) Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. Edited by Karen Brazell. (Michael Brownstein) Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu. By John S. Brownlee. (Clark Chilson) Japans blinde Sanger im Schutz der Gottheit Myéon-Benzaiten. By Ingrid Fritsch. URE SOISC C y INI Sane eh ee PRR Sec Cre hyS enna Pe RE RR OR OU eR 444 Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology ofA esthetics. By Brian Moeran. (Karen A. Smyers) CHINA Bangx hxak: Miaozu guge gehua (Song Flowers: Song Flowers of the Ancient Songs of the Miao Nationality). Edited by Guizhou Shen Minzu Shiwu Weiyuanhui Minzu Yuwen Bangongshi. (Mark Bender) Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. By Terry F. Kleeman. (Philip Clart) Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables. By Anne E. McLaren. (Vibeke Bgrdahl) Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. By Francesca Bray. (Christian Daniels) Taiwan Zou zu minjian geyao [Folksongs of the Tsou of Taiwan]. By Pu Zhong-Yong. (Jun Shimizu) SIBERIA Taiga, terre de chamans. By Marc Garanger and Roberte N. Hamayon. (Peter Knecht)......263 CONTENTS Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. By Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathe, Thomas Ross Miller. (Kotani Yoshinon) THAILAND A History of Siamese Music Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505-1932. By Terry E. Miller and Jarernchai Chonpairot. (Riidiger Schumacher) INDONESIA Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Soctety. By Webb Reane: (Satoshi: Nakagawa) <.... 005 sc. .ci0s0ds csendescenssasenusssocessaeds 265 INDIA Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability. By Alan Dundes. (S. M. Michael) ............cccccscscesesesssesessseseseecereeeeeeseseeeee 267 Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries. By Allyn Miner. (Gerald Groemer)............. 269 Théatres indiens. Edited by L. Bansat-Boudon. (Herman Tieken) Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes. Edited by Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman. (Dieter B. Kapp) NEPAL Tamang Ritual Texts II: Ethnographic Studtes in the Oral Traditions and Folk-Religton of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal. By Andras Hofer. (Geoftrey Samuel) EUROPE Bibliographien zu Slawisch-folkloristischem Schriftgut—ausgewdahlt aus dem Vorlesungsrepertoire von Vladimir Propp—und zu Slawischer Folklore und Folklore vom Balkan von Nikita I. Tolstoi, Ed. Edited by Wulfhild Ziel. (Heda Jason)............. 271 Volkskunde und Brauchtumspflege im Nationalsozialismus in Salzburg: Referate, Diskussionen, Archivmaterial. Edited by Walburga Haas. (James R. Dow)