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Vol. 82 No. 2 (2014)

Published: 2014-10-09

Research Article

The Use of Figurative Language Concerning the Death of the King

Shih-Wei Hsu

201-209
Menu of the Gods. Mesopotamian Supernatural Powers and their Nourishment, with Reference to Selected Literary Sources

Stefan Nowicki

211-224
Tracking the Dragon across the Ancient Near East

Robert D. Miller

225-245
Un Apostolat en Orient la France et la Compagnie de Jésus auprès de la communauté Maronite

Rafael Herzstein

247-262
In Pursuit of Laxmi: Entrepreneurship, Industry and Technology in Colonial Bengal

Suvobrata Sarkar

263-295
Narrative Variation and Motif Adaptation in Ancient Anecdotal Lore: A Perspective on the Bird-gift Story in Early and Early Medieval Chinese Sources

Giulia Baccini

297-315
New Social Classes, Old Visions of Hierarchy: the Novel Chronicles of Du Lala’s Promotions as an Example of Middle Class Virtue in the Chinese “Socialist Market”

Marco Fumian

317-335
Yi Munyǒl’s new mythology of Kim Pyǒngyǒn. “The Siin”

Miriam Löwensteinová, Yu Sunbee

337-358
The Emergence of Japanese Ethnology A Case Study of the Ethnologist Matsumoto Nobuhiro in the Period 1919–1923

Petra Karlová

359-379

Review Articles

Officials of Western Han and Their Background

Michael Loewe

381-388

Book Review

Stephen Quirke. Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw: the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – translation, sources, meanings.

Břetislav Vachala

389-390
Simonetta Ponchia and Mikko Luukko. The Standard Babylonian Myth of Nergal and Ereškigal. Introduction, Cuneiform Text and Transliteration with a Translation, Glossary and Commentary.

Jiří Prosecký

391-393
Takayoshi Oshima. The Babylonian Theodicy. Introduction, Cuneiform Text and Transliteration with a Translation, Glossary and Commentary.

Jiří Prosecký

394-396
Anderson H. M. Jeremiah. Community and Worldview among Paraiyars of South India. ‘Lived’ Religion.

Pavel Hons

397-399
Michaela Budiman. Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa’dan Toraja. From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions.

Rudolf Mrázek

400
Qiliang He. Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta since 1949.

Olga Lomová

401-404
Carine Defoort and Nicolas Standaert, eds. The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought.

Oliver Weingarten

405-407