We are pleased to announce the publication of the new issue of Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, 19, special issue on Religions of the Central Region of Hunan. Here is its Table of Contents:

Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 19 (2010)

Religions et société locale : Études interdisciplinaire sur la région centrale du Hunan / Interdisciplinary Studies on the Central Region of Hunan

Responsable de rédaction / Guest editor
Alain Arrault

Sommaire / Contents

1    Alain Arrault          Introduction
9    James Robson       Among Mountains and Between Rivers:
                                 A Preliminary Appraisal of the Arrival, Spread
                                and Development of Daoism and Buddhism
                                in the Central Hunan [Xiangzhong] Region
47   Alain Arrault       La société local vue à travers la
                                statuaire domestique du Hunan
135  Michela Bussotti Observations sur les sculpteurs de statuettes
                                religieuses du Hunan
183  Mechtild Mertz   A Study of the Wood Species of 73 Deity
    & Itoh Takao         Sculptures of the Hunan Province, from
                                Patrice Fava Collection
217  Mark Meulenbeld  From “Withere Wood” to “Dead Ashes”:
                                Burning Bodies, Metamorphosis, and the Ritual
                                Production of Power
269  David Mozina     Daubing Lips with Blood and Drinking Elixir
                                with the Celestial Lord Yin Jiao: The Role of
                                Thunder Deities in Daoist Ordination in
                                Contemporary Hunan

Rapports de recherche / Research Reports
305  Georges Favraud  Liturgie et construction d’une identité
                      culturelle régional en Chine contemporaine

Comptes rendus / Book reviews
331  Gil Raz              James Robson, Power of Place. The Religious
                                Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak
                                (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China
337  Aurélie Névot    Daniel McMahon, Restoring the Garden: Yan Ruyi
                               and the Civilizing of China’s Internal
                                Frontier, 1795-1805
343  Aurélie Névot    Eli Albert, A History of Daoism and the Yao
                                People of South China
347  Pascal Bouchery  Aurélie Névot, Comme le sel, je suis le cours
                                de l’eau. Le chamanisme à écriture des Yi du Yunnan

Auteurs du pressent volume / Contributors to this volume

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