Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife: [3 Volumes]Bloomsbury Academic, 2011 - 1254 halaman This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife. The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.
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