The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities
of Michael Bathgate
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For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter fox imagery in Japanese history. Michael Bathgate finds that the shapeshifting powers of the fox make it a surprisingly fundamental symbol in the discourse of elite and folk alike, and a key component in formulations of marriage and human identity, religious knowledge, and the power of money. The symbol of the shapeshifter fox thus provides a vantage point from which to understand the social practice of signification.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 191 pages
- Publisher Routledge
- Publication Date December 1st 2003
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780415968218
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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