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Subject: Folklore studies
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Sinica Sinoweb
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Sinica Sinoweb provides full-text access to the archive of 14 journals from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, with the earliest dating back to as early as 1928: Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica Research on […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, China studies, Culture. humanities, Folklore, Folklore studies, History, Humanities, Language and linguistics, Law, Literature, Philosophy, Women’s studies
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Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
E-book
by Rosalie Stolz How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to bridge the divide between classical ethnography and modern approaches to kinship studies? Using her rich findings from extensive fieldwork among the Khmu of northern Laos, the author offers a fresh perspective on kinship […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, Culture, Ethnography, Folklore, Folklore studies, Heritage, Kinship, Lao studies
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Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor: Metaphysics in Narrative
E-book
By David Hicks Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of East Timorese in their oral traditions. Although new forms of expression are emerging, the corpus of Timorese oral narrative largely retains an underlying metaphysical unity, and continues to express indigenous notions about gender and precedence. Until now, […]
Anthropology, Culture. humanities, Ethnography, Folklore, Folklore studies, Gender, Heritage, Literature Studies
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Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand: Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change
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Anders Poulsen 2006 This beautifully illustrated volume offers a rare study of Isan-Thai customs and belief associated with pregnancy and birth and how they have changed over almost half a century. Using a psychological and socio-therapeutic framework, Anders Poulsen discusses the function of various birth rites while giving an unmatched description of all traditions specifically […]
Childbirth and motherhood, Cultural studies, Development studies, Folklore studies, Lao studies, Religion, Thai studies
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Ancestors in Borneo Societies: Death, Transformation, and Social Immotality
E-book
Pascal Couderc & Kenneth Sillander (eds) 2012 While death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. This volume fills this lacuna by presenting a collection of essays on ancestors in Borneo societies written by anthropologists with […]
Read moreHunting and Fishing in a Kammu Village: Revisiting a Classic Study in Southeast Asian Ethnography
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Damrong Tayanin & Kristina Lindell 2013 This detailed and fascinating description of traditional hunting, trapping and fishing in northern Laos includes illustrations of traps, weapons, etc., an insight into rites and taboos pertaining to the work, and much more. First published in 1991 and quickly out of print, the book was hailed as ‘an outstanding […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, Environmental Studies, Folklore studies, Language, Language and linguistics
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Dictionary of Kammu Yúan Language and Culture
E-book
Jan-Olof Svantesson, Kàm Ràw (Damrong Tayanin), Kristina Lindell & Håkon Lundström 2013 By retaining their orally based culture through to the present day, the Kammu of northern Laos and adjacent parts of Vietnam, Thailand and China have long been recognised as a repository for much that has been lost or ignored in the literate cultures […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, Environmental Studies, Folklore studies, Language, Language and linguistics
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