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1 online resource (xv, 403 pages, 4 unnumbered pages leaves of plates) : illustrations |
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World anthropology |
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World anthropology.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973 |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Ancestor worship -- Congresses
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Ancestor worship -- Japan -- Congresses
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Ancestor worship -- Congresses
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Ancestor worship -- Japan -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Ancestor worship
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Voorouderverering.
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Généalogie -- Anthropologie.
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Parenté, Systèmes de.
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Japan
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Newell, William H. (William Hare), 1922-
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International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
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| ISBN |
9783110805314 |
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3110805316 |
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