Michael Dylan Foster
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 140222 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Dylan Foster |
| NOMBRES | Michael Dylan |
| APELLIDO | Foster |
| FIRMA | FOSTER M D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4664-7566 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Secret Eroticism and Lived Religion
Through interviews and personal observation, this essay introduces the photographer Ogano Minoru, exploring his particular take on the practice of matsuri photography. In his photos, Ogano tries to visually capture the affective aspects of matsuri as experienced by participants. He suggests that even when matsuri are not organized through religious institutions, they emerge from deeply held beliefs and everyday life concerns in the local communit…
Eloquent Plasticity
This paper explores Namahage of Akita Prefecture as it assumes three different instantiations: 1) enactment as a private ritual within individual households on New Year’s Eve; 2) performance as a public festival at a shrine in mid-February; and 3) celebration as an “element” inscribed on UNESCO ’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. I argue that in the first instance, Namahage is part of a vernacular religious “st…
The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
Book Review| July 01 2019 The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ed. Michelle L. Stefano and Peter Davis. (New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. Michael Dylan Foster Michael Dylan Foster University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (525): 329–331. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.525.0329 Ci…
Tōkaidō Texts and Tales
This work is a book review considering the title Tōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada edited by Andreas Marks
The Book of Yokai
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. D…
The Book of Yokai
"Revised and expanded, this second edition of The Book of Yōkai features an all new yōkai picture gallery-with dozens of stunning color images-tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. With additional entries and fifty new illustrations, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of an even larger cast of yōkai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages. Monster…
Unesco on the Ground
This essay briefly introduces this special issue, outlining the context for UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its accompanying Representative List . It explains that the issue itself is structured around six case studies, each one providing on-the-ground perspectives of people engaged with UNESCO policies on the local level. These essays are followed by three commentaries that offer comparative …
Imagined Unescos
Michael Dylan Foster, Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting Intangible Cultural Heritage on a Japanese Island, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 52, No. 2-3, UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Global Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage (May/December 2015), pp. 217-232
Change, Continuity, Fragmentation
Inviting the Uninvited Guest
Namahage is a Japanese New Year's Eve ritual in which masked demon-deity figures enter private households to chase and frighten children. The first half of this article situates Namahage within the historical and theoretical context of Japanese folkloristics, and discusses strategies employed by the community to adapt the tradition for tourism. The second half further explores the role of tourism, particularly by invoking the notion of the "uninv…
The Unesco Effect
The 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage established a "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity." In 2009, seventy-six traditions from around the world were inscribed as the "first elements" on this list. One of these was Toshidon, a New Year's Eve ritual performed on the island of Shimo-Koshikijima off the southwest coast of Japan. How does recognition by an international bod…
How to Wrap Five Eggs
Pandemonium and Parade
The Otherworlds Of Mizuki Shigeru
The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru Michael Dylan Foster (bio) Shape-shifting foxes, tengu mountain goblins, kappa water spirits, and a panoply of other fantastic beings have long haunted the Japanese cultural imaginary. In contemporary discourse, such creatures are generally labeled “yōkai,” a word variously understood as monster, spirit, goblin, ghost, demon, phantom, specter, supernatural creature, lower-order deity, or more amorphously as any u…
Pandemonium and ParadeJapanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index
Observing ritual
The Question of the Slit-Mouthed Woman
Strange Games and Enchanted Science
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The Metamorphosis of the Kappa
The kappa is a mischievous water goblin of Japanese folklore. The A. presents an overview of some of the characteristics of the kappa, including the dish-like cavity on its head, its penchant for eating cucumbers, its aversion to gourds and to iron, and its habit of trying to pull horses, cattle, and humans into the water. Some of the major critical literature regarding the kappa is discussed, including work by Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu, I…
Unesco on the Ground
This essay briefly introduces this special issue, outlining the context for UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its accompanying Representative List . It explains that the issue itself is structured around six case studies, each one providing on-the-ground perspectives of people engaged with UNESCO policies on the local level. These essays are followed by three commentaries that offer comparative …
The Unesco Effect
The 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage established a "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity." In 2009, seventy-six traditions from around the world were inscribed as the "first elements" on this list. One of these was Toshidon, a New Year's Eve ritual performed on the island of Shimo-Koshikijima off the southwest coast of Japan. How does recognition by an international bod…
Inviting the Uninvited Guest
Namahage is a Japanese New Year's Eve ritual in which masked demon-deity figures enter private households to chase and frighten children. The first half of this article situates Namahage within the historical and theoretical context of Japanese folkloristics, and discusses strategies employed by the community to adapt the tradition for tourism. The second half further explores the role of tourism, particularly by invoking the notion of the "uninv…
The Metamorphosis of the Kappa
The kappa is a mischievous water goblin of Japanese folklore. The A. presents an overview of some of the characteristics of the kappa, including the dish-like cavity on its head, its penchant for eating cucumbers, its aversion to gourds and to iron, and its habit of trying to pull horses, cattle, and humans into the water. Some of the major critical literature regarding the kappa is discussed, including work by Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu, I…
Tōkaidō Texts and Tales
This work is a book review considering the title Tōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada edited by Andreas Marks
Imagined Unescos
Michael Dylan Foster, Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting Intangible Cultural Heritage on a Japanese Island, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 52, No. 2-3, UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Global Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage (May/December 2015), pp. 217-232
Change, Continuity, Fragmentation
The Question of the Slit-Mouthed Woman
The Metamorphosis of the Kappa
The kappa is a mischievous water goblin of Japanese folklore. The A. presents an overview of some of the characteristics of the kappa, including the dish-like cavity on its head, its penchant for eating cucumbers, its aversion to gourds and to iron, and its habit of trying to pull horses, cattle, and humans into the water. Some of the major critical literature regarding the kappa is discussed, including work by Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu, I…
Strange Games and Enchanted Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Question of the Slit-Mouthed Woman
Pandemonium and Parade
The Otherworlds Of Mizuki Shigeru
The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru Michael Dylan Foster (bio) Shape-shifting foxes, tengu mountain goblins, kappa water spirits, and a panoply of other fantastic beings have long haunted the Japanese cultural imaginary. In contemporary discourse, such creatures are generally labeled “yōkai,” a word variously understood as monster, spirit, goblin, ghost, demon, phantom, specter, supernatural creature, lower-order deity, or more amorphously as any u…
Pandemonium and ParadeJapanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index
Observing ritual
How to Wrap Five Eggs
The Unesco Effect
The 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage established a "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity." In 2009, seventy-six traditions from around the world were inscribed as the "first elements" on this list. One of these was Toshidon, a New Year's Eve ritual performed on the island of Shimo-Koshikijima off the southwest coast of Japan. How does recognition by an international bod…
Inviting the Uninvited Guest
Namahage is a Japanese New Year's Eve ritual in which masked demon-deity figures enter private households to chase and frighten children. The first half of this article situates Namahage within the historical and theoretical context of Japanese folkloristics, and discusses strategies employed by the community to adapt the tradition for tourism. The second half further explores the role of tourism, particularly by invoking the notion of the "uninv…
Change, Continuity, Fragmentation
The Book of Yokai
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. D…
The Book of Yokai
"Revised and expanded, this second edition of The Book of Yōkai features an all new yōkai picture gallery-with dozens of stunning color images-tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. With additional entries and fifty new illustrations, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of an even larger cast of yōkai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages. Monster…
Unesco on the Ground
This essay briefly introduces this special issue, outlining the context for UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its accompanying Representative List . It explains that the issue itself is structured around six case studies, each one providing on-the-ground perspectives of people engaged with UNESCO policies on the local level. These essays are followed by three commentaries that offer comparative …
Imagined Unescos
Michael Dylan Foster, Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting Intangible Cultural Heritage on a Japanese Island, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 52, No. 2-3, UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Global Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage (May/December 2015), pp. 217-232
Tōkaidō Texts and Tales
This work is a book review considering the title Tōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada edited by Andreas Marks
The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
Book Review| July 01 2019 The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ed. Michelle L. Stefano and Peter Davis. (New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. Michael Dylan Foster Michael Dylan Foster University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2019) 132 (525): 329–331. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.132.525.0329 Ci…
Secret Eroticism and Lived Religion
Through interviews and personal observation, this essay introduces the photographer Ogano Minoru, exploring his particular take on the practice of matsuri photography. In his photos, Ogano tries to visually capture the affective aspects of matsuri as experienced by participants. He suggests that even when matsuri are not organized through religious institutions, they emerge from deeply held beliefs and everyday life concerns in the local communit…
Eloquent Plasticity
This paper explores Namahage of Akita Prefecture as it assumes three different instantiations: 1) enactment as a private ritual within individual households on New Year’s Eve; 2) performance as a public festival at a shrine in mid-February; and 3) celebration as an “element” inscribed on UNESCO ’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. I argue that in the first instance, Namahage is part of a vernacular religious “st…
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