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Mountain Witches : Yamauba /
"A guide to the complex figure of Yamauba-female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and living in the mountains-evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture from the premodern era to pr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Yōkai, yamauba's topos and gender, and archetype
- Man-eating, helping, shapeshifting yamauba : yamauba's duality
- Mother Yamauba and weaving : childbirth and bloodsucker, spinning and spiders
- Reading one's mind and telling a future : "Yamauba and the cooper," "The smile of a mountain witch," and throne of blood
- Yamauba, yasabur? basa, datsueba : images of premodern crones, yamauba's flying ability and re-creation of a prototype
- Aging, dementia, and abandoned women : an interpretation of yamauba
- Yamamba mumbo jumbo : yamauba in contemporary society.