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Articles in December 2003 issue of Asian Folklore Studies

• Guest editors' introduction: revitalizing Japanese folklore.
  by Hiroyuki, Hashimoto; Schnell, Scott
• Strassberg, Richard E., Editor, Translator, Commentator. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas.(Book Review)
  by Kardos, Michael A.
• Li Fuqing [Boris Riftin]. Guan Gong chuanshuo yu Sanguo yanyi [Kuan Kung and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms].(Book Review)
  by McLaren, Anne E.
• Kurpershoek, P. Marcel. Oral Poetry and Narrative from Central Arabia, 4. A Saudi Tribal History: Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawasir.(Book Review)
  by Sbait, Dirgham H.
• Dell'Orto, Alessandro. Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life.(Book Review)
  by Mio, Yuko
• Fritsch, Ingrid. Wax Cylinder Recordings of Japanese Music (1901-1913).(Sound Recording Review)
  by Groemer, Gerald
• Woerkens, Martine Van. The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India.(Book Review)
  by Naithani, Sadhana
• Honda Katsuichi. Harukor: an Ainu Woman's Tale. Voices from Asia.(Book Review)
  by Wohr, Ulrike
• Announcements.(Communications)(Calendar)
• Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi, Gabriella. The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales.(Book Review)
  by Valk, Ulo
• Gonick, Gloria Ganz. Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts.(Book Review)
  by Knecht, Peter
• On cognitive aspects of rhetorical time reckoning: metaphor and image-schema in calendrical divination in Okinawa.
  by Hidekazu, Sensui
• Dubianski, Alexander M. Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry.(Book Review)
  by Ezhilavan; Ramanathan, Aru.
• Honko, Lauri, editor. The Kalevala and the World's Traditional Epics.(Book Review)
  by Jason, Heda
• A female shaman's mind and body, and possession.
  by Kunimitsu, Kawamura
• Sellato, Bernard. Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures.(Book Review)
  by Sather, Clifford
• Folktale research after Yanagita: development and related issues.
  by Hiroshi, Kawamori
• Sather, Clifford. Seeds of Play, Words of Power: an Ethnographic Study of Iban Shamanic Chants.(Book Review)
  by Motomitsu, Uchibori
• Between preservation and tourism: folk performing arts in contemporary Japan.
  by Hiroyuki, Hashimoto
• Medina, Carlos K., Compiler, Annotator, and Editor. 106 Ifugao Abu'Wab Tales Documented by Frans Lambrecht, C.I.C.M. from 1932 to 1957.(Book Review)
  by Goda, Toh
• Cultural diversity and folklore studies in Japan: a multiculturalist approach.
  by Takanori, Shimamura
• Pegg, Carole. Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities.(Book Review)
  by van Tongeren, Mark