Ancestors, Geomancy, and Mediums in Taiwan

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Preface IX
4. An Introductory Commentary 1
5. Good and Bad Ancestors 17
6. SECTION ONE
7. Who Are the "Ancestors" in Japan? A 1963 Census of Memorial Tablets 32
8. A Structural Analysis of Japanese Ancestral Rites and Beliefs 61
9. Optional Cult Group Affiliation Among the Puyuma and the Miyako Islanders 91
10. A Note on Ancestor Worship in "Cognatic" Societies 105
11. "Family Religion" in Japan: Ie and Its Religious Faith 119
12. Recent Trends in Studies of Ancestor Worship in Japan 129
13. Ancestor Worship in Japan: Facts and History 139
14. Ancestors and Nobility in Ancient Japan 163
15. Dōzoku and Ancestor Worship in Japan 177
16. The Malevolent Ancestor: Ancestral Influence in a Japanese Religious Sect 205
17. Ancestral Influence on the Suffering of Descendants in a Japanese Cult 219
18. A Note on the Enshrinement of Ancestral Tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa 231
19. Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese 241
20. SECTION TWO
21. Characteristic Features of Ewe Ancestor Worship 263
22. Ancestorcide! Are African Ancestors Dead? 283
23. Youth as Elders and Infants as Ancestors: The Complementarity of Alternate Generations, Both Living and Dead, in Tiriki, Kenya, and Irigwe, Nigeria 297
24. SECTION THREE
25. Ancestors, Geomancy, and Mediums in Taiwan 306
26. Prophylactic Medicine and Kin Units Among Yao Ancestor Worshipers 309
27. Chinese Geomancy and Ancestor Worship: A Further Discussion 329
28. Aspects of Ancestor Worship in Northern Taiwan 339
29. Ancestors Proper and Peripheral 365
30. The Ancestors at Home: Domestic Worship in a Land-Poor Taiwanese Village 373
31. Biographical Notes 387
32. Index of Names 395
33. Index of Subjects 399