Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-538) and index.
Contents:
PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE -- Michael Reinschmidt. PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME -- Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons / Roy W. Hamilton -- Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand / Suriya Smutkupt, Pattana Kitiarsa -- Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal / Gisèle Krauskopff -- Rice culture in Manipur, India / Mutua Bahadur -- The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank / Stephen C. Headley -- Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam / Vi Văn An, Eric Crystal -- PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS -- The granary: a home for the rice spirits / Roy W. Hamilton -- The granary of the Tharu of Nepal / Kurt W. Meyer, Pamela Deuel -- PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION -- Rice festivals: community and celebration ; The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines / Roy W. Hamilton -- The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali / David J. Stuart-Fox -- Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand / Roy W. Hamilton, Thitipol Kanteewong -- The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand / Ruth Gerson -- The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia / Eric Crystal -- Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village / Vũ Hông Thuât, Roy W. Hamilton -- Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan / Toshiyuki Sano, Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE -- The Goddess of Rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India / Nanditha Krishna -- Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali / David J. Stuart-Fox -- PART 5: SACRED FOOD -- Sacred food / Roy W. Hamilton -- Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal / Sohini Ray -- The art of rice in Balinese offerings / Francine Brinkgreve -- Sake in Japanese art and culture / Mariko Fujita -- PART 6: STRAW MATTERS -- Straw matters / Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE -- Rice, self, and state / Roy W. Hamilton -- Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India / Nanditha Krishna -- Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period / Toshiyuki Sano -- Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture / Francesca Bray -- PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE -- The future of rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Let's hope the bile is good / Aurora Ammayao, Gene Hettel -- Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java / Rens Heringa -- The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play / Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono -- Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities / Kwang-Kyu Lee -- Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons / Michael Reinschmidt.
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