...Earl H. Pritchard China under the Empress Dowager . By J. O. P. Bland and E. Backhouse . Peking : Henri Vetch , 1939 . xxvi, 470 p. U. S. $6.00. Japan among the great powers . By Seiji Hishida . London, New York, Tororonto : Longmans , 1940 . xvi, 405 p. $3.50...

... Conditions Obtaining among Rural Homes . By Antonio G. Tan . Quezon City : Community Development Research Council, University of the Philippines , Study Series No. 10, 1960 , xv, 59 , iii, mimeo. Bibliog., Maps, and Photo. An Analysis of the Social Effects of Donated Radios on Barrio Life...

... in 1962). An article on “Social Mobility among Businessmen in a Korean Town” is also ready for publication. 5 It has to be kept in mind that in an earlier generation, some 25 years ago, merchants may have failed in business. The extent of such failures cannot be established now. We cannot...

...William Henderson Southeast Asia Among the World Powers . By Amry Vandenbosch and Richard A. Butwell . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1957 . viii, 336 . Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 247...

..., the reader may feel a momentary twinge of annoyance. No use is made of monographic studies in Chinese, Japanese, or Western languages. Yale University ARTHUR F. WRIGHT The Westerners among the Figurines of the T'ang Dynasty of China. By JANE GASTON MAHLER. Serie Orientale Roma XX. Rome: Istituto Italiano per...

...Maurice Freedman; Marjorie Topley Abstract The Social organization of the Chinese in Singapore is so complex that many studies of it will have to be made before we can understand it as a whole. Three anthropologists and one sociologist have worked among the Singapore Chinese, two of them...

...Daniel M. Neuman Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India . Edited by Imtiaz Ahmed . 2nd rev., and enl. ed. Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1978 . 314 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index. $16.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 400 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Felix M. Keesing A Solomon Island Society. Kinship and Leadership among the Siuai of Bougainville . By Douglas L. Oliver . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1955 . xxii , 533. Plates, Maps, Notes, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956...

...Edwin M. Loeb Frontier land systems in southernmost China: a comparative study of agrarian problems and social organization among the Pai Yi people of Yunnan and the Kamba people of Sikang . By Chen Han-seng . New York : International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations , 1949...

... difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubja brahmans of Katyayan gotra (primarily an exogamous group composed of several lineages) present this type of problem to the social...

... Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India . By M. N. Srinivas . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1965 . Distributed in U. S. by Taplinger Publishing Co., xiv, 269 . Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966...

...William James Hail China among the powers . By David Nelson Rowe . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1945 . x, 205 pp. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 388 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY genuine scholarship of the book, but would contend...

...Carroll McC. Pastner; Stephen L. Pastner Millennium and Charisma among Pathans: A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology . By Akbar S. Ahmed . London : Routledge & Kegan Paul (International Library of Anthropology) , 1976 . xvii, 173 pp. References, Index. $12.50 Copyright ©...

...David Arase BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 217 in Japan. On that basis, it is probably worth wending one's way through the lessinformative and overstated portions of the book. ALLAN BIRD California Polytechnic State University Japan Among the Powers, 1890-1990. By SYDNEY GIFFARD. New Haven: Yale University...

...Allen Bird The Change of a Lifetime: Employment Patterns Among Japan's Managerial Elite . By John C. Beck and Martha N. Beck . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . $39.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Jérôme Rousseau Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine Among the Taman of Borneo . By Jay H. Bernstein . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner , 1997 . xiv, 209 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK...

...Gerald Figal Abstract The death of Emperor Hirohito on 7 January 1989, followed more recently by the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, has indeed incited a degree of historical awareness among Japanese from all walks of life. In the wake of an enigmatic period of social self...

... of the previous millennium, but were divided among themselves when the Muslim forces of Muhammad bin Tughluq swept over the South in the early decades of the fourteenth century: “When these dreaded invaders reached the Krishna River the Hindus to their south, stricken with terror, combined, and gathered in haste...

...Margaret Meibohm The Christians of Kerala: History, Belief and Ritual among the Yakoba . By Susan Visvanathan . Madras : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvii, 279 pp. $27.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1054 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... the magnitude of which is difficult to fully comprehend, either for them or for those inflicting these changes on them. NANDINI SUNDAR Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780-1950. By SAURABH D U B E . Albany: State University...