Volume One
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Asian American Folklore and Folklife
Pan Asian Americans
Asian American Ethnomusicology and Folklore
Asian American Family, Memory, and Folklore
Asian American Female Suicide and Folklore
Asian American Folklore and Children's Literature
Asian American Folklore, Folklife, and Material Culture
Asian American Grocery Stores
Asian American Humor and Folklore
Asian American Popular Culture and Folklore
Asian American Queer Folklore and Folklife
Asian American Queer Studies and Folklore
Asian American Religious Studies and Folklore
Asian American Theater and Folklore
Asian American Visual Culture and Folklore
Asian American Youth Culture and Folklore
Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Avalokitesvara
"Got Rice?"
Lotus Flower
Model Minority
Mother-Daughter Narrative in Asian American Literature
Orientalism and Folklore
Reincarnation in Dharmic Religions
Root Quest
Second and Subsequent Generations
Sexuality, Love, and Folklore in Asian America
Siddhartha Gautama (c. 6th-5th Centuries BCE)
Swastika
"Twinkie," "Banana," "Coconut"
Mixed Heritage, Mixed Race Asian Americans
Myths of Origin
Amerasians
Hapa and Folklore
Interracial/Interethnic Marriage and Romance
Afghan Americans
History, People, and Culture
Culture and Language
Folk Dance, Folklore, and Children's Tales
Identity
Religion
Rites of Passage
Burmese Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts and Crafts
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Folktales
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Humoral Medicine and Spirit Beliefs
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Mythological and Legendary Deities
Names and Name Giving
Nature and Animals
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Temples
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Cambodian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decorations
Children's Folklore
Clothes and Jewelry
Dance, Music, and Performance
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
"The Killing Fields"
Literature
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folktales
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette, Customs, Superstitions, and Taboos
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Urban Legends
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Chinese Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts and Crafts
Bok Kai Temple and Parade
Children's Folk Songs
Chin, Vincent (1955-1982)
Chinatown
Chinatown Ghost Stories
Chinatown Opera Theaters
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Martial Arts
Chinese Zodiac
Clothes and Jewelry
Confucian Traditions
Domestic Religious Practices
Donald Duk (Frank Chin) (1991)
Dying and Death Rituals
Fa Mu Lan
Family and Community
Feng Shui/Geomancy
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dances and Performances
Folk Music
Folklore in Children's Literature
Foods and Foodways
Fortune Cookie
Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan
Guandi
Ha Jin (1956-)
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Hong Fook Tong
Identity
Kingston, Maxine Hong (1940-)
Lee, Bruce (1940-1973)
Lin, Maya Ying (1959-)
Literature and Folklore
M. Butterfly
The Monkey King (Sun Wukong)
Mythological and Legendary Deities
Names and Name Giving
Narcissus Festival and Queen Pageant (Honolulu)
Narrative Folktale
Paper Sons/Paper Daughters
Proverbs and Maxims
Qing Ming
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Taiwanese American Religious Temples
Tan, Amy (1952-)
Taoism
Tianhou/Mazu
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Vernacular Overseas Chinese Architecture
Yin and Yang
Filipino Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts and Crafts
Balikbayan Boxes
Beauty Pageants
Beauty Standards
Bulosan, Carlos (1911-1956)
Children's and Folk Song
Clothes and Jewelry
Debutantes
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Filipino American Churches
Filipino American National Historical Society
Filipino Turntablism/Mobile DJs
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Gender Folklore
Gonzalez, N.?V.?M. (1915-1999)
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Identity
Igorot Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Igorot Balikbayans
Igorot Dying and Death Rituals
Igorot Family and Community
Igorot Foods and Foodways
Igorot Home Decoration
Indigenous Folk Dance and Performance
Indigenous Identity
Jeepneys
Literature and Folklore
Malakas at Maganda
Manilamen
Mestizaje
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folklore
Pakikisama
Pilipino Cultural Night
Pinoy and Pinay
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Santo Niño Festival
Social Etiquette and Customs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Index
Volume Two
Hmong Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Bride Capture
Children's Literature and Folktales
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Music
Folk Songs
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Music
Names and Name Giving
Narrative/Oral Folktale
Nature and Animals
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Shamanism
Social Etiquette and Customs
Story Cloths
Textiles
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Indian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Ayurveda
Children's Folk Songs
Clothes and Jewelry
Dance
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Henna
Heroes and Heroines
Hindu Temples in America
Home Decoration
Indian American Writers
Jain Temples
Literature and Folklore
Little India
Mukherjee, Bharati (1940-)
Muslim Mosques
Mythological Hindu Deities
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folktale
Nature and Animals
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Threshold Designs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Indonesian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children's Folk Songs
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Javanese Puppets
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folklore
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Restaurants and Cuisine
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette, Customs, Superstitions, and Taboos
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Japanese Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts and Crafts
Chanoyu (Japanese Tea Ceremony)
Cherry Blossom Festival
Children's Literature and Songs
Domestic Religious Practices
Draft Resisters during World War II
Dying and Death Rituals
Dynasty Warriors
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Floral Arrangements
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Folktales
Foods and Foodways
Hawaii Sugar Plantation
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Inouye, Daniel K. (1924-)
Internment Camps
Japanese American Artists
Japanese American National Museum
Japantown
Lemon Notebook (Remoncho)
Literature and Folklore
Martial Arts
Mori, Toshio (1910-1980)
Names and Name Giving
Nature and Animals
Noguchi, Isamu (1904-1988)
No-No Boys
Okada, John (1923-1971)
Origami
Pearl Harbor
Picture Bride/Shashin Hanayome
Pilgrimage to Japanese American Internment Sites
Pokémon
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Shinoda, Michael Kenji "Mike" (1977-)
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Taiko Performance
Tatami
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Yamamoto, Hisaye (1921-)
Zen Garden
Korean Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children and Folk Song
Children's Literature and Folklore
Clothes and Jewelry
Comfort Women
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Korean American Adoptee Film
Korean American Adoptee Literature
Korean American Adoptees
Korean American Martial Arts
Korean Church in America
Koreatown and Koreans Living Overseas
Literature
Music
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folklore
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Laotian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children's Folk Song
Clothes
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Jewelry
Literature and Folklore
Marriage Rituals
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folktale
Pii May Lao or Lao New Year
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Malaysian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Children and Folk Song
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folklore
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Superstition and Taboo
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Index
Volume Three
Mongolian Americans
History, People, and Culture
Children
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Folktales
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Identity
Music and Folk Song
Names and Name Giving
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Nepali Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Identity
Maxims and Proverbs
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Okinawan Americans
History, People, and Culture
Art and Dance
Festivals and Holidays
Foods and Foodways
Martial Arts
Music
Religion
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Pacific Islander Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Chamorro Folklore of World War II
Children and Folk Song
Clothing and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Fiji and Fijians
Filipino Material Culture on Guam
Folk Dance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Guam and Chamorus
Guam: Narratives of Female Deities among the Chamorro
Hawaii and Hawaiian
Hawaii: Nature and Animals
Hawaiian Folklore
Hawaiian Folk Music
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Narrative
Pidgin
Pigeons
Polynesian Cultural Center
Polynesians
Puku'i, Mary Kawena (1895-1986)
Religion
Rites of Passage
Samoa and Samoans
Surf and Surfing
Tahiti and Tahitian
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Pakistani Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts and Crafts
Children's Folk Song
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folktale
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Punjabi Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children's Folklore
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Foods and Foodways
Gurbani Kirtan
Gurdwara
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Sikh Gurus
Sikhism
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Sri Lankan Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Caste
Christians
Clothes and Jewelry
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Muslims
Names and Name Giving
Religion
Rites of Passage
Tamil Folktales and Proverbs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Thai Americans
History, People, and Culture
Ancestor, Ghost, and Spirit
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children's Folklore
Clothes and Jewelry
Community
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Ethnic Media
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folklore
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette, Customs, Superstitions, and Taboos
Thai Dance and Music
Thai Town
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Tibetan Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts, Crafts, and Home Decoration
Children and Folk Song
Clothes and Jewelry
Dalai Lama (1935-)
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Identity
Literature and Folklore
Names and Name Giving
Narrative Folktales
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Sand Mandala
Social Etiquette and Customs
Traditional Medicine and Healing
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Vietnamese Americans
History, People, and Culture
Arts and Crafts
Boat People
Children and Folk Song
Clothes and Jewelry
Domestic Religious Practices
Dying and Death Rituals
Family and Community
Festivals and Holidays
Folk Dance and Performance
Folk Music
Folktales and Narratives
Foods and Foodways
Heroes and Heroines
Home Decoration
Hurricane Katrina Experience
Identity
Indigenous Religious Traditions
Little Saigon
Monkey Bridge (Lan Cao)
Names and Name Giving
Proverbs and Maxims
Religion
Rites of Passage
Social Etiquette and Customs
Superstition and Taboo
Tet
Trung Sisters
Truong Van Tran Incident
Vernacular Language, Speech, and Manner
Viet Kieu
Appendix: Examples of Folktales in Asian America
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the Editors
