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Articles in October 2005 issue of Asian Folklore Studies

• Rodrigues, Hillary Peter. Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess: The Liturgy of the Durga Puja with Interpretations.(Book review)
  by Korom, Frank J.
• Walker, Anthony R. Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People.(Book review)
  by Vargyas, Gabor
• Distelrath, Gunther and Peter Kleinen, Editors. Fundamentalismus versus Wissenschaft? Zur Identitat des Orients in ostlichen und westlichen Diskursen.(Book review)
  by Wohr, Ulrike
• Harvilahti, Lauri in collaboration with Zoja Sergeevna Kazagaceva. The Holy Mountain. Studies in Upper Altay Oral Poetry.(Book review)
  by Taube, Erika
• Nguyen Van Huy and Laurel Kendall, Editors. Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit.(Book review)
  by Chihiro, Miyazawa
• Folktale types of the Arab world.(Types of the Folktale in the Arab World)(Book review)
  by Jason, Heda
• Hungary.(Announcement)(Brief article)
• Livia Kohn, Monastic Life in Medieval China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.(Book review)
  by Seiwert, Hubert
• Research on Buddhist nuns in Japan, past and present.(Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan)(Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan Area)(Special Exhibition: Women and Buddhism)(Book review)
  by Wacker, Monika
• A shaman's ritual songs.(RESEARCH MATERIAL)
  by Onon, Sqingaowa
• Jones, Stephen. Plucking the Winds: Lives of Village Musicians in Old and New China.(Book review)
  by Hall, Hazel
• The historical relationship between the Shawls of Gurun and Iran.
  by Imer, Zahide
• Giskin, Howard and Bettye S. Walsh, Editors. An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family.(Book review)
  by Law, Pui-lam
• Religious revival as reaction to the hegemonization of power in Siberia in the 1920s to 1940s.
  by Leete, Art
• Fan Pen Li Chem. Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi.(Book review)
  by Matusky, Patricia
• Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, editors., The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang.(Book review)
  by Kohn, Livia
• Shuten Doji.(Translation)
  by Reider, Noriko T.
• Bordahl, Vibeke, Fei Li, and Huang Ying, Editors. Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling: Full-Length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]).(Book review)
  by Lee, Peace
• Estonia.(Reports)(International Society for Folk Narrative Research)
  by Leete, Art; Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna
• Shuten Doji "drunken demon".(Author abstract)
  by Reider, Noriko T.
• Loftus, Ronald P.: Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan.(Book review)
  by Ward, Vanessa B.
• China.(Reports)
  by Bender, Mark
• Staging a ritual dance out of its context: the role of an individual artist in transforming the Alevi Semah.
  by Arzu Ozturkmen
• Is it clothes that make the man? Cross-dressing, gender, and sex in pre-twentieth-century Zhu Yingtai Lore.
  by Altenburger, Roland
• Susan L. Burns. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan.(Book review)
  by Lokowandt, Ernst
• Wilder, William D., Editor. Journeys of the Soul: Anthropological Studies of Death, Burial and Reburial Practices in Borneo.(Book review)
  by Uchibori, Motomitsu
• Mieder, Wolfgang, Editor. The Netherlandish Proverbs: An International Symposium of the Pieter Brueg(h)els.(Book review)
  by Mayer, David R.