Sub-Table of Contents : Oceanian (Pacific- & Indian-Ocean islander) texts

Japan (including Yezo & the Ryukyu-s)

"Ainu worldview"

Ainu religion

Ainu animism & shamanism

Sensei [postures]

Izumo animal-lists

Engi-s^iki

Miyako shamanism

shamanhood in Miyako

Doojoo Mahikari religion

Prophet Motive Omoto religion

journey to the World of the Dead in Omoto religion

C^inkon Kis^in spirit-possession in Omoto religion

I. "Mediated Spirit Possession".

II.1-2. "Remarks"; "Honda C^ikaatsu & Nagasawa Katsutate".

II.3-4. "C^inkon Kis^in in Oomoto; in Later Developments".

III. "C^inkon Kis^in in Tais^oo era Oomoto".

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

non-Japanese Pacific islands, generally

Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind

2-6. "Samoa"; "Tonga"; Nukulaelae"; "Anuta"; "Rotuma"

8-10. "Dadul"; "C^uuk"; "Toraja"

Micronesia

"Spirit-Media in Palau"

Polynesia

"Marginal Powers"

Melanesia

A>isa's gifts the Mekeo

Dancing through Time the Karawari

Fluid Ontologies highlands of Papua

Religious Belief among the Western Dani

Heart of the Pearl Shell the Foi

Sorrow of the Lonely the Kaluli

Symbolism and Ritual in Irian Jaya

Embodied Spirits the Asmat

Oral Tradition from Western New-Guinea the Sentani

Australia

"Caelestial Lore" Australian

Shamanic Voices -- Australian

Aboriginal Men of High Degree

Madagascar

Recollecting from the Past -- east coast of Madagascar

2-4. "Tamatave"; "Spirit Practices"; "Maresaka"

5-11. "Material Media"; "Recollecting"; "Power, Resistance"; "Vazaha spirits"; "Style"; "Discourse"; "Imagining Antandroy"

the possessed and the dispossessed the Sakalava of Madgascar

Indonesia

Andaman

Above the Forest Little Andaman

southern Indonesia

bintang in Bali

Java, Bali, & Sulawesi

Powers of Blessing the Mamasa Toraja of Sulawesi

Sumba

Borneo

Iban Shamanism

The Seen and the Unseen

1.1. "Rungus Spirit-Media"

1.2. "Bulusu> Spirit-Media"

1.3. "Shamanism among the Melanau"

1.4-5. "Kayan"; "Central Kalimantan"

2. "Taman"; "Chinese of Sarawak"

3. "Iban Manang"; "Iban Comic Fables"

Honey-Tree Song of various Dayak tribes in Sarawak

0-1. "Introduction"; "Childbirth"

2-4. "Initiation"; "Courtship"; "Hunting"

5-7. "Farming"; "Building & Journeying"

8. "Healing"

9-10. "Festivals"; "The Afterlife"

In the Realm of the Diamond Queen the Meratus of Kalimantan

cap. 0-2; 5-6 "Conditions of living"; "Boundary of the skin"

pt. III; 8-9; pt. IV "Horse of gaps"; "Shamaness"

route of souls in World of the Dead Assam & Borneo

Philippine

Songs and Gifts at the Frontier Manobo spirit-possession

1-2. "Rivers of Exchange"; "Manobo Cosmos"

3. "Pantheon of Manobo Supernatural Beings"

4-7. "Burning Speech"; "Personal Songs"; "Reluctance"; "Song and Sacrificing"

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