Carmen Blacker: Scholar of Japanese Religion, Myth and Folklore : Writings and Reflections /

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Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore -- her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. This volume contains a wide selection of writings in celebration of her work...

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Autor principal: Blacker, Carmen (Autor)
Otros Autores: Browning, Mary-Grace (Editor ), McMullen, James, 1939- (Editor ), Cortazzi, Hugh (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Folkestone, Kent, CT : Renaissance Books, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Blacker, Carmen.
Women folklorists.
Folklorists.
Women folklorists > Biography.
Folklorists > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Mami Mizutori, SISJAC
  • Preface / Hugh Cortazzi
  • Introduction: Carmen Blacker: friend, scholar and wife / Michael Loewe
  • List of contributors
  • List of plates
  • Map of Japan
  • Japan's prefectures. Part 1 Carmen Blacker as seen by her friends : Carmen Elizabeth Blacker, 1924-2009: a biographical memoir / James McMullen
  • Biographical portrait / Peter Kornicki
  • Memories of Carmen Blacker / Yokoyama Toshio
  • Words from Hugh Cortazzi at Carmen Blacker's memorial meeting. Part 2 Selected extracts from Carmen Blacker's diaries and other autobiographical writings : Carmen Blacker's "introduction" to her Collected Writings
  • Introducing Carmen Blacker's diaries / Hugh Cortazzi
  • Extracts from the diaries. Part 3 Selected biographical portraits by Carmen Blacker : Three great Japanologists: Chamberlain, Aston and Satow
  • Marie Stopes
  • Arthur Waley
  • Minakata Kumagusu
  • Yoshio Markino
  • Christmas Humphreys
  • Cambridge women. Part 4 Selected academic writings : The shinza or god-seat in the Daijōsai: throne bed, or incubation couch?
  • Divination and oracles in Japan
  • The goddess emerges from her cave: Fujita Himiko and her dragon palace family
  • "The exiled warrior and the hidden village": a possible solution to the enigma of the Heike-densetsu
  • Extracts from legends of Heike Villages: the fugitive warrior as ancestor
  • The language of birds
  • The angry ghost in Japan. Part 5 Selected Carmen Blacker lectures : Remembering Carmen Blacker / Donald Keene
  • A glimpse of the modestly literate picnic lovers of old Japan / Toshio Yokoyama
  • Tsushima: Japan viewed from the margins - archives, books, ginseng / Peter Kornicki
  • Amaterasu's progress: the Ise Shrines and the public sphere of post-war Japan / John Breen
  • Unofficial and commoner worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan / James McMullen. Part 6 A celebratory essay : The search for the numinous in Wordsworth and Coleridge: some hints from The Catalpa Bow / Hisaaki Yamanouchi. Appendix: Carmen's literary gift / compiled by Paul Norbury. Bibliography
  • Index.

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