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In Ghostly Japan - Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities (Paperback, Ed): Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Dylan... In Ghostly Japan - Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities (Paperback, Ed)
Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Dylan Foster
R332 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R72 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day." In this book, famed author Lafcadio Hearn presents 14 fascinating stories--including deathless ghosts and yokai, local folklore and haunted places, as well as Buddhist traditions. This edition includes a new foreword by Michael Dylan Foster which explains the book's importance as a Japanese cultural and literary classic. The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore--the spirits of the dead and the spirits of the living. In Ghostly Japan examines both and, in the process, offers a fascinating window into Japan's supernatural and spiritual world. The 14 stories include: "Fragment"--A young pilgrim encounters a mountain of skulls and is shown a terrible truth "Ingwa-banashi"--On her deathbed, a dying wife bequeaths to her young rival a sinister and horrific gift "A Passional Karma"--A spectral beauty transcends death to return for her handsome samurai lover "Story of a Tengu"--A priest saves the life of a Yokai monk and is granted a wish, but the outcome is not as expected While some stories contain spine-tingling imagery, others offer looks into Japan's rich culture and folklore. "Bits of Poetry" offers an engaging study on the nation's fascination with verse, "Japanese Buddhist Proverbs" explains the meaning of several traditional Zen Buddhist sayings and "Incense" examines its use in rituals to summon and banish spirits. Whether you're interested in classic ghost stories, or simply want to enjoy the prose of a legendary writer, In Ghostly Japan affords countless delights.

We Are All Survivors - Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery (Paperback): Carl Lindahl, Michael... We Are All Survivors - Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery (Paperback)
Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, Kate Parker Horigan; Contributions by Yutaka Suga, Yoko Taniguchi, …
R610 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R67 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ethnographic work? We Are All Survivors is a collection of essays exploring the role of folklore in the wake of disaster. Contributors include scholars from the United States and Japan who have long worked with disaster-stricken communities or are disaster survivors themselves; individual chapters address Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Maria, and two earthquakes in Japan, including the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011. Adapted from a 2017 special issue of Fabula (from the International Society for Folk Narrative Research), the book includes a revised introduction, an additional chapter with original illustrations, and a new conclusion considering how folklorists are documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. We Are All Survivors bears witness to survivors' expressions of remembrance, grieving, and healing.

We Are All Survivors - Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery (Hardcover): Carl Lindahl, Michael... We Are All Survivors - Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery (Hardcover)
Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, Kate Parker Horigan; Contributions by Yutaka Suga, Yoko Taniguchi, …
R1,403 R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Save R128 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ethnographic work? We Are All Survivors is a collection of essays exploring the role of folklore in the wake of disaster. Contributors include scholars from the United States and Japan who have long worked with disaster-stricken communities or are disaster survivors themselves; individual chapters address Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Maria, and two earthquakes in Japan, including the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011. Adapted from a 2017 special issue of Fabula (from the International Society for Folk Narrative Research), the book includes a revised introduction, an additional chapter with original illustrations, and a new conclusion considering how folklorists are documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. We Are All Survivors bears witness to survivors' expressions of remembrance, grieving, and healing.

UNESCO on the Ground - Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Paperback): Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman UNESCO on the Ground - Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman
R723 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local communities? Drawing upon six communities ranging across three continents-from India, South Korea, Malawi, Japan, Macedonia and China-and focusing on festival, ritual, and dance, this volume illuminates the complexities and challenges faced by those who find themselves drawn, in different ways, into UNESCO's orbit. Some struggle to incorporate UNESCO recognition into their own local understanding of tradition; others cope with the fallout of a failed intangible cultural heritage nomination. By exploring locally, by looking outward from the inside, the essays show how a normative policy such as UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage policy can take on specific associations and inflections. A number of the key questions and themes emerge across the case studies and three accompanying commentaries: issues of terminology; power struggles between local, national and international stakeholders; the value of international recognition; and what forces shape selection processes. With examples from around the world, and a balance of local experiences with broader perspectives, this volume provides a unique comparative approach to timely questions of tradition and change in a rapidly globalizing world.

Pandemonium and Parade - Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Paperback): Michael Dylan Foster Pandemonium and Parade - Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Paperback)
Michael Dylan Foster
R849 R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Save R121 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yokai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms - and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

Takashi Murakami - The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (Hardcover): Michael Darling Takashi Murakami - The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (Hardcover)
Michael Darling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Contributions by Michael Dylan Foster, Chelsea Foxwell, Reuben Keehan
R1,565 R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Save R327 (21%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art s most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami s paintings, this book traces Murakami s career from his earliest training to his current studio practice. Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami s work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Through essays and illustrations many previously unpublished it explores the artist s relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address Murakami s output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history. Takashi Murakami is a true essential for collectors and fans alike.

The Folkloresque - Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World (Paperback): Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A Tolbert The Folkloresque - Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World (Paperback)
Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A Tolbert
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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