The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual 069122210X, 9780691222103

The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China 9780674054356

In the first book-length study in English of the Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Na

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The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 9780824864996

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic ten

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Ritual, History and Power

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The Women of Karbala : Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi’i Islam 9780292709591

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The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam 9780292796577

Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family

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Economy and Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations 9781782385707

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital invest

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Unlocking Japanese: Making Japanese as simple as it really is!

A ground-breaking book that sets out to demonstrate that Japanese is “simple, logical and beautiful” and that most of th

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The Bakufu in Japanese History 0804722102, 9780804722100

This volume analyzes the recurring form of warrior government known as the Bakufu (or shogunate) that ruled Japan for ne

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An astrological mandala. The cycle of transformations and its 360 symbolic phases 0394719921

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Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History 9781503621985

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