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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tobie Openshaw , Dean KaralekasPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 02 Weight: 0.646kg ISBN: 9789004708334ISBN 10: 9004708332 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 25 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword Sharing Legends of Short-Statured People across Space and Time David Blundell Acknowledgements Tobie Openshaw List of Figures and Tables Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction Myth and Mystery Tobie Openshaw 1 The Vanishing Dwarf Domas Ayang 2 Pre-Neolithic Populations as Inspiration for Taiwan’s Mythical Little People A Survey of the Available Evidence Paul Jen-kuei Li 3 Tracing Negritos and Their Paths in Ancient Taiwan New Findings Raise More Questions Hsiao-chun Hung, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Mike T. Carson 4 Do Formosanisms in Austronesian Languages Originate from a Substrate of Taiwan’s Earliest Inhabitants? Roger Blench 5 Negrito Populations of Insular and Peninsular Southeast Asia P. Bion Griffin 6 Ljeljeman and Her Short Friends Kereker Palakurulj 7 The Place of koko’ ta’ay among the Saisiyat People The Origin of the Legend and Its Instantiation in the PaSta’ay Liu Yu-ling 8 Ritual Tools, Ritual Songs, and the ta’ay A Lexicon of the PaSta’ay Lancini Jen-hao Cheng 9 A History of Research into the Little People Finding Patterns in the Formosan Dwarf Legends Liu Yu-ling 10 Makasino Lulyang Nomin 11 The Primordial Little People Tale-Type Tracing Pacific Dwarf Myths throughout the Austronesian Expansion Dean Karalekas 12 What Ancient Taiwanese Negritos Might Tell Us about Mystery Hominoids in Indonesia Gregory Forth 13 Walking with Dvorovoi A History of European Imagery of Little People Igor Sitnikov IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTobie Openshaw, Affiliated Research Fellow, Centre of Austronesian Studies, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Tobie has engaged with the topic of the ta’ay alongside SaiSiyat elders for over a decade. He lectures on Indigenous issues and documentary filmmaking in Taipei. Dean Karalekas, Ph.D. (2016), Affiliated Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has edited several academic books and is the author of Civil-Military Relations in Taiwan: Identity and Transformation (Emerald Publishing, 2018) and The Men in No Man's Land: A Journey Into Bir Tawil (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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