Carmen Blacker

Biographic Data

ID289696
NAMECarmen Blacker
GIVEN NAMESCarmen
FAMILY NAMEBlacker
SIGNATUREBLACKER C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1929
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX3

  • Kathleen Basford, 1916–1998

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1999

  • Shinto and The State, 1868-1988

    Carmen Blacker, Helen HardacreARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1994

  • The shinza or God-seat in the Daijōsai

    Open AccessCarmen BlackerARTICLEJapanese Journal of Religious…1990

  • The Folklore of the Stranger

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1990Cited by: 3References: 1

    THE folklore of Japan is full of references to the mysterious figure of a Stranger, who wanders into a village from an unknown 'outside' world. The word for a Stranger in Japanese, ijin or 'different person' has a wide connotation. An ijin can be a traveller, for example, whose way of life is wandering, in contrast to the static agricultural life of the village. He may be a wandering woodcarver or tinker, a travelling priest or strolling player. …

  • Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan

    Carmen Blacker, Helen HardacreARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1988

  • Obituary

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1986

  • The Exiled Warrior and the Hidden Village

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1984

    FOR my last Presidential Address I present you with an enigma, a puzzle in Japanese folklore for which so far no satisfactory solution has been found. The most that I can give is a clue or two. The problem is this. All over Japan, with the exception of the northern island Hokkaid5, villages and communities have been discovered whose inhabitants claim to be descended from a fugitive warrior, fleeing for his life after the defeat of his family in a…

  • The Religious Traveller in the Edo Period

    Open AccessCarmen BlackerARTICLEModern Asian Studies1984Cited by: 2References: 2

    A curious and as yet little discussed phenomenon of the Edo period is the immense increase among ordinary lay people in journeys of pilgrimage. From the middle of the seventeenth century people of all classes, alone and in groups, began to make their way in ever larger throngs to the Ise Shrines, to Kōyasan, to Zenkōji, to Fujisan, and to the various circuits of thirty-three places dedicated to Kannon and the eighty-eight places dedicated to Kōbō…

  • Minakata Kumagusu

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1983Cited by: 1

    In Japan everyone knows that it was Yanagita Kunio and Origuchi Shinobu who were the giant pioneers of folklore studies. Everyone recognises that it was due to their prodigious efforts in tramping the countryside to collect tales and legends, to observe rituals in remote mountain villages, to note holy trees and tombs with curious names, that the disciplined study of folklore came into existence. These were the two men who by seeing connections b…

  • Obituary

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEFolklore1983

  • Divination and Oracles

    Margaret Shaw, Michael Loewe et al.ARTICLEThe South African Archaeological…1982

  • Miss I. B. Horner

    Carmen BlackerARTICLENumen1981

  • Shashin Gyōja Jitsukaga no Shugendō. Anne Marie Bouchy

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEHistory of Religions1979

  • The Catalpha Bow

    Hartmut O Rotermund, Carmen BlackerARTICLENumen1978

  • The Catalpa Bow. A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1976Cited by: 3

  • The Bridge to the Other World. Shamans and Shamanism in Japan

    H Byron Earhart, Carmen BlackerARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1976

  • The Catalpa Bow. A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

    Robert J Smith, Carmen BlackerARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1976

  • The Catalpa Bow. A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

    Robert S Ellwood, Carmen BlackerARTICLEPacific Affairs1976

    The bridge the sacred beings witch animals the other world Ascesis the ancient Sibyl the living goddess the blind medium the ascetic's initiation the visionary journey the symbolic journey the ascetic's power village oracles mountain oracles exorcism conclusion

  • Ancient Cosmologies

    Open AccessRobert Turner, Carmen Blacker et al.ARTICLERAIN1975

  • Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

    Byron K Marshall, Carmen Blacker et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1973

  • Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore

    Carmen BlackerARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1967Cited by: 2

  • Le Shugendō. Histoire, Doctrine et Rites des Anachoretes dits Yamabushi

    Carmen Blacker, G RenondeauARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1967

  • Obituary

    C P Blacker, Carmen BlackerARTICLEPopulation Studies1967Cited by: 2

  • Namazu-e and Their Themes. An Interpretative Approach to Some Aspects of Japanese Folk Religion

    Carmen Blacker, Carolijn OuwehandARTICLEMan1966Cited by: 1

  • Initiation in the Shugendo

    Carmen BlackerCHAPTERInitiation1965