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Ancestors
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Table of contents
- 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 Descendents 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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