商品簡介
Williams (Japanese, Clemson U.) describes ritual practice that he observed in and around Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu, and relates them to the Shinto worldview. He begins by setting out that worldview, then looks at such topics as living landscape, Great Mother as woman and topocosm, spirits high and low, and fruit of the spirits. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
E. Leslie Williams began his study of East Asia by working as an ecclesiastical representative in Taiwan for two years. He was then a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate research scholar at Kyushu University where he studied Edo period history for two years. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages at Clemson University.
