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Title	:	The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities
Author	:	Michael Bathgate
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2003 by Routledge
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Religion

The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities Hardcover | Pages: 191 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities (Religion in History, Society and Culture-Outstanding Dissertations, 7)
ISBN:	0415968216 (ISBN13: 9780415968218)
Edition Language:	English

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This book was not what I expected it to be. I expected more a collection of folk tales and characteristics of the foxes in Japanese culture.What I found was more of a study, searching for the shifting meanings of these foxes and the stories they feature (e.g. from blessing ancestor to progenitor of a cursed lineage, from divine agents to malicious fiends) as well as interpretations of the myths, symbols and development in the context of social-economical change in Japan over the time. Now while

This book was not what I expected it to be. I expected more a collection of folk tales and characteristics of the foxes in Japanese culture.What I found was more of a study, searching for the shifting meanings of these foxes and the stories they feature (e.g. from blessing ancestor to progenitor of a cursed lineage, from divine agents to malicious fiends) as well as interpretations of the myths, symbols and development in the context of social-economical change in Japan over the time. Now while

Analysis isn't bad, but I'm not convinced that his focus wasn't too wide.