Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's The Monkey as Mirror, published by Princeton University Press, is a peer reviewed scholarly monograph examining how the monkey has served as a symbolic figure across Japanese history and ritual, from folk religion to social commentary. Its authority rests on standard university press review and Ohnuki-Tierney's standing as an anthropologist of Japanese symbolic culture. Its limit is that it is one scholar's interpretive synthesis across a broad historical span, so a claim about one specific period or ritual benefits from a source with narrower, more specialized focus as well.
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Reliability TierEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney's The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual, published by Princeton University Press, the top tier reflecting standard academic press peer review and Ohnuki-Tierney's standing as an anthropologist specializing in Japanese symbolism, drawing on both historical and ethnographic material for its argument about the monkey's shifting symbolic role in Japanese culture. Its limit is that it is a single scholar's interpretive synthesis, so a narrowly focused claim benefits from checking against more specialized studies as well. NotesA major academic monograph by a University of Wisconsin anthropologist, published by a leading university press and reviewed in academic journals, tracing the monkey as a symbol across Japanese history and ritual. Used here only for its specific, checkable three-factor argument identifying Sarutahiko as a monkey deity, not as a general authority on Shinto belief. 1 Citation
PublisherPrinceton University Press 1 Publication Year URLhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691028460/the-monkey-as-mirror 1 Sources
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