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Ancestors / ed. by William H. Newell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (403 p.) : Num. figs. and tabs. 15 platesContent type:
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  • 9789027978592
  • 9783110805314
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  • BL467
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
I-IV -- 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 -- Dōzoku 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
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I-IV -- 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 -- Dōzoku 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

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