GARY SEAMAN

PUBLICATIONS:

• 1978. Temple Organization in a Chinese Village. (sole author)
• 1987. Journey to the North: An Ethnohistorical analysis and annotated translation of the Chinese Folk Novel Pei-yu chi. (sole author)
• 1989. Ecology and Empire: Nomads in the Cultural Evolution of the Old World. (sole editor)
• 1991. Rulers from the Steppe: State Formation on the Inner Eurasian Periphery. (joint editor)
• 1991. The Taoist Tradition in Chinese Religion. (sole editor)
• 1992. Foundation of Empire: Archeology and Art of the Eurasian Steppes. (sole editor)
• 1993. Chinese Religion: An annotated bibliography of publications in western language, 1981 though 1990. Association of Asian Studies Monographs. (Compiled by Laurence G. Thompson).
• 1994. Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas. U Washington Press. (joint editor with Jane Day)
• 1994. Resources for Mulian Studies in China and the West. (joint author with Fei Peng)
• 1995. The Literati Tradition in Chinese Religion. (editor, translated by Laurence G. Thompson)
• 1996. The Buddhist Tradition in Chinese Religion. (editor, translated by Laurence G. Thompson)
• 1997. The Chinese Religious Traditions Collated. Books (editor, translated by Laurence G. Thompson)
• In Preparation. An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Religious Books from Taiwan.
• 1997. Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight. Coauthored by Peter Biella and Napoleon Chagnon. Published by Harcourt, Brace, Ft. Worth. Computer interactive analysis, contextualization and nonlinear presentation of a well-known ethnographic film.
• CD-ROM in preparation. Mulian Dramas from Taiwan: a computer interactive analysis.
• CD-ROM in preparation. The Tiv of Nigeria: The collected works of Paul Bohannan.

Articles (sole author):

• 1976 . Ancestors, Geomancy and Mediums in Taiwan. In Ancestors (ed. William Newell). Mouton: The Hague.
• 1978. Ethnographic Film From the Field to the Classroom: Methodological and Practical Considerations in the Collection and Dissemination of Film Records of Popular Religion in China. Chinoperl Papers 7: 107-35.
• 1980. In the Presence of Authority: Hierarchial Roles in Chinese Spirit Medium Cults. In Normal and Deviant Behavior in Chinese Culture. Reidel: Dordrect.
• 1981. Blood Bowls and Black Dogs: The Sexual Politics of Karmic Retribution in a Chinese Hell. In The Anthropology of Chinese Society in Taiwan (ed. E. Martin Ahern and Hill Gates Rosenow). pp. 381-96. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 1982. Chinese Spirit Money: An Interpretation. Journal of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions 10:81-90.
• 1986. Only Half-Way to Godhead: The Chinese Geomancer as Alchemist and Cosmic Pivot. Asian Folklore Studies 45,1: 1-18.
• 1986 . Authorship of the Pei Yu Chi: Journey to the North. Journal of Asian Studies 45,3: 483-497.
• 1989. Mulien Dramas and Funeral Ritual in Puli, Taiwan. In The Mulien Operas of China: Their Ritual Context and Social Significance. Berkeley: University of California Press
• 1989. The Emperor of the Dark Heavens and the Han River Gateway into China. In Ecology and Empire: Nomads in the Cultural Evolution of the Old World
• 1992 . Winds, waters, seeds and souls: folk concepts of physiology and etiology in Chinese geomancy. Pp. 74-97 in Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge, Berkeley: Univ CA
• 1994 . The Emperor of the Dark Heavens: Inner Asia Origins in Chinese Shamanism. In Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas.
• 1997. A blow-by-blow description of the ax fight. In Yanomamo Interactive: The Ax Fight. Ft. Worth:Harcourt, Brace.

Articles (joint author):

• 1992. Hypermedia in Ethnography (Homer Williams, joint author). Pp. 300-311 in Film as Ethnography, Manchester University Press.
• 1993 Processing Visual Data in Ethnography: Fieldwork, Filework and Fieldinfo. (Homer Williams, joint author)

FILMS

• 1990 Writer/Director A Yangtze Pilgrimage A film series based on footage shot in 1980-81 in the Yangtze River basin by Japanese film crews of Sada Planning, Inc.
• 1974 Writer/Director/Editor CHINESE POPULAR RELIGION. A series of ten films dealing with varied topics of Chinese religious life and ritual.
• 1977 Writer/Director/Editor
• THE CHINESE CULT OF THE DEAD. (16mm 34 minutes)
• 1977 Writer/Director/Editor
• CHINESE SHAMANISM. (16mm 34 minutes)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Association of Asian Studies
• American Anthropological Association
• Society for the Study of Chinese Religion
• Asian Folklore Scholars
• Research Associate of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
• Council for Museum Anthropology
• Society for Visual Anthropology