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Folklore of the Atayal of Formosa and the Mountain Tribes of Luzon

Edward Norbeck 1950
Edward Norbeck offers a translation of folk tales of the Atayal, a tribe from the island of Taiwan. Norbeck presents the possibility that these tales are related to the mythology of other Indonesian and southeast Asian groups, especially the mountain tribes of Luzon, in the Philippines.
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Series
  • Anthropological Papers Series
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-951519-62-9 (ebook)
  • 978-1-949098-38-9 (paper)
Subject
  • Archaeology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Notes on the Atayal Group
  • A Comparison of Atayal and Luzon Folklore
    • I. Tales of Magic Appearance of Food and Requisites for Living
    • II. Flood Tales
    • III. Tales of the Mythical Period
    • IV. Tales of Transformation
    • V. Miscellaneous Tales
  • Translations of Folk Tales of the Atayal
    • 1. The Place of Origin of Our Ancient Ancestors
    • 2. The Origin of Divination of the Silek Bird
    • 3. The Story of the Shiguts Tribe
    • 4. The Story of Cutting the Sun in Half and Returning Home
    • 5. The Flood
    • 6. Halus
    • 7. A Story of the Ancient Way of Life
    • 8. The Story of the Man Who Turned into a Monkey
    • 9. The Story of the Girl Who Turned into a Pigeon
    • 10. The Story of the Origin of Tattooing
    • 11. The Marriage of Brothers and Sisters is Unlucky
    • 12. The Story of Turning into a Pheasant
    • 13. The Story of the Separation of the Skhamayun and the Atayal and the Origin of Head-hunting
    • 14. The Story of Buta Driving Away the Skhamayun
    • 15. Buta's War Strategy
    • 16. The Road to Paradise
    • 17. The Origin of the Wind
    • 18. The Distribution of the Atayal
    • 19. The Flood
    • 20. Food Appears Spontaneously
    • 21. The Deceased Man Makowai
    • 22. Eating Children
    • 23. Turning into a Wild Pig
    • 24. Turning into a Monkey
    • 25. Turning into a Kite
    • 26. The Village of Only Women
    • 27. The Branching Off of Our Ancestors
    • 28. Tattooing
  • Bibliography
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