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Tables of Contents for The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series Editors' Foreword
ix
Preface
xi
1 The Jewel Maiden and the Murder Stone: Orientations to Shapeshifting and Signification
3
32
Metamorphosis and Duplicity
9
9
Imagined Foxes, Imagined Worlds
18
3
Shapeshifting and Signification
21
14
2 Foxes, Wives and Spirits: Shapeshifting and the Languages of Marriage
35
36
Vampires, Lovers and Ancestors
39
8
"A World Never Quite Her Own"
47
4
Visiting Husbands, Visiting Wives
51
9
Good Sons and Wives on Probation
60
7
Shapeshifting, Marriage and the Sacred
67
4
3 To Whom Am I Speaking? Shapeshifting and the Semiotics of Revelation
71
30
"Is it really you?"
74
7
Shifty Means and Hidden Ends
81
12
Foxes and the Politics of Revelation
93
5
Foxes in Semiotic Theory and Practice
98
3
4 The Gift of the Fox: Shapeshifting and the Power of wealth
101
36
Shifting Values and Shitty Wealth
103
17
The Black Lineage of the Nouveaux Riches
120
13
Foxes, man and the End of the World
133
4
5 Using the Fox: The Crafts of Shapeshifting and Signification
137
28
Signification and the Contest of Sorcerers
140
9
The Persistence of Heresy
149
12
Foxes and the Foreign
150
6
Foxes and the Folk
156
3
Foxes Past and Future
159
2
Man Into Fox
161
4
Glossary
165
4
Bibliography
169
14
Index
183