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Immortal wishes : labor and transcendence on a Japanese sacred mountain
- Title
- Immortal wishes : labor and transcendence on a Japanese sacred mountain / Ellen Schattschneider.
- Author
- Schattschneider, Ellen.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 268 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Mountain worship
- Kawai Mariko
- Kawai, Mariko
- Akakura Yama Jinja (Iwaki-machi, Japan)
- Tsugaru Region (Japan) > Religious life and customs
- Iwaki-machi (Japan) > Religious life and customs
- Japan > Tsugaru Region
- Japan > Iwaki-machi
- Shinto
- Shrines > Japan
- Mountain worship > Japan > Tsugaru Region
- Godsdiensten
- Gebergten
- 11.87 religions of Japan
- Mountain worship > Japan > Iwaki-machi
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Labor and Transcendence -- 1. Predicaments of History: Ritual Life on a Japanese Periphery -- 2. Between Worlds: Akakura's Architecture of Potential Transformation -- 3. Labor and Rebirth: Cosmological Kinship in the Annual Ritual Cycle -- 4. Miniature Mountains: Offerings and Exchange -- 5. My Mother's Garden: Ascetic Discipline on the Mountain -- 6. I am the Mirror: The Political Dimensions of Representational Action -- App. Guide to Persons Mentioned in the Text.
- ISBN
- 082233075X
- 9780822330752
- 0822330628
- 9780822330622
- LCCN
- 2002151231
- OCLC
- ocm50866878
- 50866878
- SCSB-1289602
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library