Seeking the koko' ta'ay : Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond /
This volume, edited by Tobie Openshaw and Dean Karalekas, will guide you on a multidisciplinary journey through Indigenous peoples' centuries-old lore of "little people" in Taiwan and the Pacific. Learn about the Taiwan SaiSiyat people's paSta'ay ritual , still held to this...
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| 246 | 3 | |a Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond | |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill, |c 2025. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Foreword -- Sharing Legends of Short-Statured People across Space and Time -- David Blundell -- Acknowledgements -- Tobie Openshaw -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Myth and Mystery -- Tobie Openshaw -- 1 The Vanishing Dwarf -- Domas Ayang -- 2 Pre-Neolithic Populations as Inspiration for Taiwan's Mythical Little People -- A Survey of the Available Evidence -- Paul Jen-kuei Li -- 3 Tracing Negritos and Their Paths in Ancient Taiwan -- New Findings Raise More Questions -- Hsiao-chun Hung, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Mike T. Carson -- 4 Do Formosanisms in Austronesian Languages Originate from a Substrate of Taiwan's Earliest Inhabitants? -- Roger Blench -- 5 Negrito Populations of Insular and Peninsular Southeast Asia -- P. Bion Griffin -- 6 Ljeljeman and Her Short Friends -- Kereker Palakurulj -- 7 The Place of koko' ta'ay among the Saisiyat People -- The Origin of the Legend and Its Instantiation in the PaSta'ay -- Liu Yu-ling -- 8 Ritual Tools, Ritual Songs, and the ta'ay -- A Lexicon of the PaSta'ay -- Lancini Jen-hao Cheng -- 9 A History of Research into the Little People -- Finding Patterns in the Formosan Dwarf Legends -- Liu Yu-ling -- 10 Makasino -- Lulyang Nomin -- 11 The Primordial Little People Tale-Type -- Tracing Pacific Dwarf Myths throughout the Austronesian Expansion -- Dean Karalekas -- 12 What Ancient Taiwanese Negritos Might Tell Us about Mystery Hominoids in Indonesia -- Gregory Forth -- 13 Walking with Dvorovoi -- A History of European Imagery of Little People -- Igor Sitnikov -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a This volume, edited by Tobie Openshaw and Dean Karalekas, will guide you on a multidisciplinary journey through Indigenous peoples' centuries-old lore of "little people" in Taiwan and the Pacific. Learn about the Taiwan SaiSiyat people's paSta'ay ritual , still held to this day to commemorate the koko ta'ay . Follow the distribution of the legends, interspersed with original stories by modern Indigenous authors. Explore the archaeological find of small-statured negrito remains in Taiwan, and delve into the most current research on the topic by linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other specialists to unravel the mystery of what-or who-inspired these ancient legends. | ||
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| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Dwarfs (Persons) |x Folklore. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Saisiyat (Taiwan people) |x Folklore. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Taiwan aborigines |x Folklore. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Taiwan aborigines |x Rites and ceremonies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Taiwan aborigines |x Social life and customs. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Karalekas, Dean, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Openshaw, Tobie, |e editor. | |
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