Author: Ouwehand, Cornelis.
Title: Hateruma. Socio-religious aspects of a South-Ryukyuan island culture.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985. XI,324 pp. 32 b./w. figs, 12 tables, 7 b./w. maps & 140 b./w. ills on plts. Orig. hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering), d./j. 8vo. - Dust jacket sl. dam. on the front cover.Rather rare ethnographic study which examines from a socio-religious perspective the folk culture of the island of Hateruma (Pachira), part of the Yaeyama Islands, located at the southern tip of Okinawa prefecture (Ryukyu) of Japan. Cornelis Ouwehand (1920-1996) was a Dutch anthropologist and a scholar of Japanese folklore. He spent eight months on the island of Hateruma in 1965, and revisitied it for further study in 1975 and 1982.

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