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...Shiro Yoshioka Abstract As a research subject, Japanese animation or anime is like a nue , an imaginary Japanese bird that has the head of an ape, the torso of a raccoon, the tail of a snake, and the limbs of a tiger. Depending on the perspective from which you are looking at it, and what you want...

...James Wicks Chapter 3 focuses on the ways the so-called national style of Chinese animation—the primary representative being ink-painting animation in the early 1960s—was altered by the role of international relationships and cultural connections. For example, Du considers the effects of Soviet...

...Daniel Johnson The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation . By Thomas Lamarre . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . xxxvii , 385 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 How does anime “think...

...Mary Farquhar Animation in Asia and the Pacific . Edited by John A. Lent . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2001 . 280 pp. $44.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 678 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES etc., more common in casual oral conversation...

...Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation . By Susan J. Napier . New York : Palgrave , 2000 . viii , 311 pp. $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 727 second...

...Schuyler Cammann The Symbol of the Beast: The Animal-Style Art of Eurasia . By Dagny Carter . New York : Ronald Press Company , 1957 . Plates, Map, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 1 The author quotes from Deuteronomy...

... “Genuine” animism as opposed to an animism which is simply a residual category of non-canonical beliefs and behavior implies belief in separable spirit substances—souls, spirits, and ultimately deities. In Burma there are a number of classes of spiritual creatures in which most people believe and toward...

... discrimination, situational gait, and even behavioral and personality traits. The dog is also upheld as the representative of all nonhuman animals, undoubtedly because of its morphological and functional versatility but certainly also because it was the human's main interface and companion at the beginning...

...Pasang Yangjee Sherpa Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas . By Radhika Govindrajan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780226559988 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...Sumit Guha Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare . By James L. Hevia . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . 328 pp. ISBN: 9780226566285 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare is narrower than its title...

...Mary Augusta Brazelton Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter . By Lyle Fearnley . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2020 . viii, 280 pp. ISBN: 9781478011057 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Peter Braden Keith Knapp traces the perception among early medieval scholars that animals, like humans, practiced filial piety. Knapp credibly argues that this belief was not simply anthropomorphic projection. To be sure, humans’ interpretive framework was likely inspired by notions including...

...Frédéric Keck Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China . By Liz P. Y. Chee . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2021 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9781478014041 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 As the COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on animal...

...Pasang Yangjee Sherpa Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas . By Karine Gagné . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xxv, 232 pp. ISBN: 9780295744001 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In Caring...

... of the bearing that the history of this animal on the Subcontinent has on the so-called Indo-Aryan controversy. She refers to the work of N. Jha and N Rajaram, and likewise that of M. Witzel and S. Farmer. Her conclusion: “There are no convincing reports of dated horse remains from South Asian archeological...

...Teresa Mangum JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life . Edited by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2005 . xix , 370 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) . Copyright © The Association...

...Huaiyu Chen Ohnuma demonstrates how a close reading of Buddhist narratives as a method of traditional textual study can reveal the complexity of animals’ participation in human religious life. She successfully introduces some new issues from the perspectives of material culture and effect...

...John S. Major The Animal and the Daemon in Early China . By Roel Sterckx . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2002 . ix , 375 pp. $92.50 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 173 which suggests...

...Anne Schiller Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia . By Lorraine V. Aragon . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . xii, 383 pp. $21.95 (paper); $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...

... is that the central ideal, salvation, which legitimates all religious action, is itself practically unattainable. This fact must have far-reaching implications for the total religious system. Magical-animism and Buddhism: A Structural Analysis of the Sinhalese Religious System MICHAEL M. AMES T HIS paper is intended...