Our cover contains a photograph of a Balinese funeral ceremony, which is being observed by a crowd made up of locals and international tourists. This photograph, taken by Thea Linke, comes to us courtesy of the authors of “The Bali Bombings Monument: Ceremonial Cosmopolis,” an article described below that engages in part with the way that the boundaries between sacred spaces and tourist sites become blurred in Indonesia—as indeed can be the case in many other settings, in Asia and elsewhere.
The issue as a whole, like many JAS numbers, is very diverse when it comes to the types of authors involved and subjects addressed in the “front of the book” articles as well as, of course, the “back of the book” review section. I am pleased to be able to report that authors based on four continents (North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia) contributed articles to this issue; that...
