History and folklore studies in Japan
By: edited by David L. Howell and James C. Baxter
Edition: 1st English ed.
Series: International Symposium in North America -- 2002; Kokusai shinpojūmu -- 2002.
Publisher: International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Kyoto
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Congresses; Historiography; Folklore and history; Folklore; History; Social conditions
Notes: Papers from a conference held in Kyoto, Jan. 15-17, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, with one contribution in Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / James C. Baxter; title: Introduction / David L. Howell; title: Who oversees the spirit? : a reassessment of the custom of deifying humans / Komatsu Kazuhiko; title: Ogai's antiquarianism : parting with history / Thomas Keirstead; title: When abortion became a crime : abortion, infanticide, and the law in early Meiji Japan / Susan Burns; title: Making sense of senseless violence in early Meiji Japan / David L. Howell; title: Media and the folk / Thomas Looser; title: Kume Kunitake ni okeru 40-nen no okure no imi / Sonoda Hidehiro; title: The battle of tropical Ryukyu kingdom tourist Okimawa / Gerald Figal.