Heather Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 235079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9225-1648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Learners Read in Two Languages: Understanding Chinese-English Bilingual Readers Through Miscue Analysis
The number of Chinese-speaking students in Canadian schools is increasing dramatically. This article discusses a study in which we explored reading processes in Chinese and English through examining children’s reading in both languages. Based in a socio-psycholinguistic framework (K. Goodman, Wang, Iventosch, & Y. Goodman,2012; Kabuto, 2017) and through using miscue analysis, we examined how children apply their knowledge of language to Mandarin …
Smith At Play
What I would most like to carry forward, or perhaps better, recuperate, from J. Z. Smith’s work is an orientation toward play, especially play as it opens onto polysemy, irony, and unfixed or fugitive meanings. On this point, I draw inspiration from Sam Gill, who has suggested, “following Smith, that religion is a term that makes sense only when seen in a ludic frame—the frame of metaphor, irony, and joke” (Gill 1998, 201). Compared with Smith’s …
Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō)
Ladylike Religion: Ritual and Agency in the Life of an Eleventh-Century Japanese Noblewoman
Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan
Engi and Interchange
Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan
During the Heian period (794 1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the Peak of Gold, came to cultural prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. Real and Imagined depicts their one-hundred-kilometer trek from the capital to the rocky summit as well as the imaginative landscape they navigated. Kinpusen was believed to be a realm of immortals, the domain of an un…
Rites and Rule: Kiyomori at Itsukushima and Fukuhara
Heather Blair offers a correction to the politically centered paradigm for early medieval history. English-language historians have generally focused on the political and military history of the Genpei War (1180-1185), attending to the war's victors, the Minamoto, while defining Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) primarily as a failed warrior. Placing Kiyomori in the context of Heian court culture, Blair instead argues that ritual played an important …
Religion and Politics in Heian-Period Japan
The religious culture of Japan's Heian period (794-1185), like that of other times and places, was structured by power differentials; it can therefore fruitfully be understood as political. Combining kami worship (popularly known as Shinto), esoteric and exoteric Buddhism, spirit possession, and local traditions, as well as moral and ritual practices derived from Confucianism and Daoism, Heian religious life was characterized by multiple religiou…
Our Journey to Becoming Ethnographers: An Exploration of Rhetorical Structures as Lived Experience
This article, originally written as a performative piece, presents the experiences and perceptions of five graduate students and one professor as they reflect on and write about becoming ethnographers throughout a graduate-level research course. Data sources include reflective journals, synthesis papers, and academic literature. Following the completion of the course, the group came together and applied grounded theory to analyze the data and wri…
The Development of Suijaku Stories about Zaō Gongen
L'article traite du culte de Zaō Gongen au mont Kinpusen, dans la préfecture de Nara. Cette divinité d'origine indienne occupe une place à part dans le panthéon du shugendō. Elle semble avoir été à l'origine vénérée comme un « bodhisattva » (bosatsu), puis comme une « manifestation provisionnelle » (gongen). Selon l'auteur, cette évolution reflète une « naturalisation » du dieu et son adaptation au contexte japonais. Au demeurant, Zaō est forteme…
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Rage, Rage, against the Dying of the Light
The literature on obsolescent languages provides both helpful and discouraging perspectives. The authors place the circumstances surrounding and the condition of indigenous languages in Western Canada in relation to that found in other parts of the world. Based on sociolinguistic research in Saskatchewan, Canada, a reflection of the significance of language loss for indigenous communities is set forth
Systemic Violence in Education: Promise Broken edited by Juanita Epp and Ailsa Watkinson
Naming an experience is central to understanding, analyzing, and deconstructing it."Systemic violence is any institutionalized practice or procedure that adversely impacts on disadvantaged individuals or groups by burdening them psychologically, culturally, spiritually, economically or physically.It includes practices and procedures that prevent students from learning, thus harming them " (p.190).The editors of this collection have not only named…
Our Journey to Becoming Ethnographers: An Exploration of Rhetorical Structures as Lived Experience
This article, originally written as a performative piece, presents the experiences and perceptions of five graduate students and one professor as they reflect on and write about becoming ethnographers throughout a graduate-level research course. Data sources include reflective journals, synthesis papers, and academic literature. Following the completion of the course, the group came together and applied grounded theory to analyze the data and wri…
Smith At Play
What I would most like to carry forward, or perhaps better, recuperate, from J. Z. Smith’s work is an orientation toward play, especially play as it opens onto polysemy, irony, and unfixed or fugitive meanings. On this point, I draw inspiration from Sam Gill, who has suggested, “following Smith, that religion is a term that makes sense only when seen in a ludic frame—the frame of metaphor, irony, and joke” (Gill 1998, 201). Compared with Smith’s …
Ladylike Religion: Ritual and Agency in the Life of an Eleventh-Century Japanese Noblewoman
Systemic Violence in Education: Promise Broken edited by Juanita Epp and Ailsa Watkinson
Naming an experience is central to understanding, analyzing, and deconstructing it."Systemic violence is any institutionalized practice or procedure that adversely impacts on disadvantaged individuals or groups by burdening them psychologically, culturally, spiritually, economically or physically.It includes practices and procedures that prevent students from learning, thus harming them " (p.190).The editors of this collection have not only named…
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Rage, Rage, against the Dying of the Light
The literature on obsolescent languages provides both helpful and discouraging perspectives. The authors place the circumstances surrounding and the condition of indigenous languages in Western Canada in relation to that found in other parts of the world. Based on sociolinguistic research in Saskatchewan, Canada, a reflection of the significance of language loss for indigenous communities is set forth
The Development of Suijaku Stories about Zaō Gongen
L'article traite du culte de Zaō Gongen au mont Kinpusen, dans la préfecture de Nara. Cette divinité d'origine indienne occupe une place à part dans le panthéon du shugendō. Elle semble avoir été à l'origine vénérée comme un « bodhisattva » (bosatsu), puis comme une « manifestation provisionnelle » (gongen). Selon l'auteur, cette évolution reflète une « naturalisation » du dieu et son adaptation au contexte japonais. Au demeurant, Zaō est forteme…
Our Journey to Becoming Ethnographers: An Exploration of Rhetorical Structures as Lived Experience
This article, originally written as a performative piece, presents the experiences and perceptions of five graduate students and one professor as they reflect on and write about becoming ethnographers throughout a graduate-level research course. Data sources include reflective journals, synthesis papers, and academic literature. Following the completion of the course, the group came together and applied grounded theory to analyze the data and wri…
Rites and Rule: Kiyomori at Itsukushima and Fukuhara
Heather Blair offers a correction to the politically centered paradigm for early medieval history. English-language historians have generally focused on the political and military history of the Genpei War (1180-1185), attending to the war's victors, the Minamoto, while defining Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) primarily as a failed warrior. Placing Kiyomori in the context of Heian court culture, Blair instead argues that ritual played an important …
Religion and Politics in Heian-Period Japan
The religious culture of Japan's Heian period (794-1185), like that of other times and places, was structured by power differentials; it can therefore fruitfully be understood as political. Combining kami worship (popularly known as Shinto), esoteric and exoteric Buddhism, spirit possession, and local traditions, as well as moral and ritual practices derived from Confucianism and Daoism, Heian religious life was characterized by multiple religiou…
Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan
Engi and Interchange
Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan
During the Heian period (794 1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the Peak of Gold, came to cultural prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. Real and Imagined depicts their one-hundred-kilometer trek from the capital to the rocky summit as well as the imaginative landscape they navigated. Kinpusen was believed to be a realm of immortals, the domain of an un…
Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō)
Ladylike Religion: Ritual and Agency in the Life of an Eleventh-Century Japanese Noblewoman
Smith At Play
What I would most like to carry forward, or perhaps better, recuperate, from J. Z. Smith’s work is an orientation toward play, especially play as it opens onto polysemy, irony, and unfixed or fugitive meanings. On this point, I draw inspiration from Sam Gill, who has suggested, “following Smith, that religion is a term that makes sense only when seen in a ludic frame—the frame of metaphor, irony, and joke” (Gill 1998, 201). Compared with Smith’s …
When Learners Read in Two Languages: Understanding Chinese-English Bilingual Readers Through Miscue Analysis
The number of Chinese-speaking students in Canadian schools is increasing dramatically. This article discusses a study in which we explored reading processes in Chinese and English through examining children’s reading in both languages. Based in a socio-psycholinguistic framework (K. Goodman, Wang, Iventosch, & Y. Goodman,2012; Kabuto, 2017) and through using miscue analysis, we examined how children apply their knowledge of language to Mandarin …
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)