Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004708334 |
| ISBN10: | 9004708332 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 286 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 646 g |
| Language: | English |
| 690 |
Category:
Seeking the koko? ta?ay
Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond
Series:
Brill Series in Taiwan Studies;
02;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 25 July 2024
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Short description:
For many centuries, Indigenous peoples of Taiwan and the Pacific have told tales of a mythical population of little people. This multidisciplinary volume explores the genesis of these myths from the perspectives of writers, linguists, archaeologists, and other experts.
Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
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