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Also by Jonathan H.X. Lee:

Encyclopedia Of Asian American Folklore And Folklife, January 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

Also by Kathleen M. Nadeau:

Encyclopedia Of Asian American Folklore And Folklife, January 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE AND FOLKLIFE
By: Jonathan H.X. Lee, Kathleen M. Nadeau

ABC-Clio
January 2012
On Sale: December 21, 2011
1254 pages
ISBN: 0313350663
EAN: 9780313350665
Kindle: B00CW55KXI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences.

The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.

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