The art of rice : spirit and sustenance in Asia / Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-538) and index.

Introduction /  Roy W. Hamilton --  PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME --  Labor, ritual, and the cycle of time /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand /  Suriya Smutkupt,  Pattana Kitiarsa --  Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal /  Gisèle Krauskopff --  Rice culture in Manipur, India /  Mutua Bahadur --  The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank /  Stephen C. Headley -- Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam /  Vi Văn An,  Eric Crystal -- PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS --  The granary: a home for the rice spirits /  Roy W. Hamilton -- The granary of the Tharu of Nepal / Kurt W. Meyer, Pamela Deuel --  PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION --  Rice festivals: community and celebration ;  The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines /  Roy W. Hamilton --  The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali /  David J. Stuart-Fox --  Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand /  Roy W. Hamilton,  Thitipol Kanteewong --  The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand /  Ruth Gerson --  The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia /  Eric Crystal --  Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village /  Vũ Hông Thuât,  Roy W. Hamilton --  Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan /  Toshiyuki Sano, Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE --  The Goddess of Rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India /  Nanditha Krishna -- Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali /  David J. Stuart-Fox --  PART 5: SACRED FOOD -- Sacred food /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal /  Sohini Ray --  The art of rice in Balinese offerings /  Francine Brinkgreve -- Sake in Japanese art and culture / Mariko Fujita --  PART 6: STRAW MATTERS --  Straw matters /  Roy W. Hamilton --  PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE -- Rice, self, and state / Roy W. Hamilton --  Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India /  Nanditha Krishna --  Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period /  Toshiyuki Sano --  Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture / Francesca Bray --  PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE --  The future of rice /  Roy W. Hamilton --  Let's hope the bile is good / Aurora Ammayao,  Gene Hettel -- Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java / Rens Heringa -- The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play / Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono -- Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities / Kwang-Kyu Lee -- Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons / Michael Reinschmidt.