Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology & Ethnography)

by Geoffrey Bownas (Author), PaulineBrown (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $258.95

  The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $182.88

  In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined.