The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 9780824864996

The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 0824820649, 0824821416, 9780824820640, 9780824864996

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

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Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community 9781501741593

Using examples of excessive hubris and debilitating bureaucratic competition before the Asia-Pacific War, the unavoidabl

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Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community 9780824843854

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Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community 9004368639, 9789004368637

Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from histo

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Ritual: Power, Healing and Community 9781101177204

?The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors

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Critical community practice 9781447342526

With the increasing focus on 'community' as the site for renewing democracy, improving policymaking and enhanc

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Farming the Home Place: A Japanese Community in California, 1919–1982 9781501711916

In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez

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Work, ritual, biography : a Muslim community in North India 9780195640212, 0195640217

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Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece 9780520930582

What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such acti

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Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece 9780520239982, 0520239989

What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such acti

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