Beckoning Fortune
Title | Beckoning Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Krystyna Chabros |
Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN | 9783447032629 |
Maneki Neko
Title | Maneki Neko PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Lendroth |
Publisher | Shen's Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-02-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781885008923 |
The Japanese legend of Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat, who is a symbol of good luck and good fortune in many Asian countries. In a small Japanese village, a poor monk and his cat Tama live a simple life at the Kotoku Monastery. One day, a great storm passes through the village, and Tama is caught in the rain outside the temple. She waits under the eaves of a small shrine, cleaning her face and whiskers as best she can with her paw. A noble samurai is also passing through, and stops his horse under the cover of a large tree. But through the rain, what does he see? A cat with a raised paw, beckoning him forward? Curious, the samurai urges his horse forward. Just then, a bolt of lightning flashes and strikes the tree behind him, splitting it in two. The beckoning cat has saved his life. In his gratitude, the samurai brings riches to the small temple and the monk, who shares his wealth with the village. So goes the Japanese legend of Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat. And to this day, the cat with raised paw beckoning guests is a symbol of good luck and good fortune in many Asian countries.
Fortune and the Cursed
Title | Fortune and the Cursed PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Swancutt |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 085745482X |
Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the 'race against time' to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace. Drawing on parallels between social anthropology and chaos theory, the author gives an in-depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as 'strange attractors' who propagate the ongoing process of innovation-making. With its view into this long-term 'cursing war' between two shamanic factions in a rural Mongolian district, and the comparative findings on cursing in rural China, this book is a needed resource for anyone with an interest in the anthropology of religion, shamanism, witchcraft and genealogical change. Katherine Swancutt is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has carried out fieldwork on shamanic religion across Inner Asia, working among Buryats in northeast Mongolia and China since 1999, and among the Nuosu of Southwest China since 2007.
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Title | Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Aftermath ...
Title | Aftermath ... PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Louis Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Canadian poetry |
ISBN |
The Mongolian Manuscripts on Birch Bark from Xarbuxyn Balgas in the Collection of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Title | The Mongolian Manuscripts on Birch Bark from Xarbuxyn Balgas in the Collection of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabetta Chiodo |
Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN | 9783447057141 |
Restored and edited with the cooperation of the Institute of Central Asian Studies of the University of Bonn.
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Murphy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100908027X |
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted therein. Literary scholars of China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa provide original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures of slavery – authentication and legitimation, ethnic formation and globalization, displacement, exile, and alienation, representation and metaphorization, and resistance and liberation. This Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery is designed to highlight the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and collectively challenge the reductive notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.