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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 869–870.
Published: 01 August 1998
.... It is a central process of personal growth: a continual testing of one's courage and of one's capacity for coping with the responses one gets from others and from the physical surround. Anybody can poke at the crotch of an anatomically correct doll. But I dare you to do it to that big anthropologist over...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 866–867.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Ronald Provencher Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia . By Douglas Raybeck . Prospect Heights, II. : Waveland Press , 1996 . xi, 248 pp. $10.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 866 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 412–414.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Eugene F. Irschick An Anthropologist Among Historians and Other Essays . By Bernard S. Cohn . Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 1990 . xxvi, 682 pp. Rs. 150.00. The Indian Nationalist Movement, c. 1912–1922: Leadership, Organisation and Philosophy . The Writings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 688–689.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Paul Hockings Life among Indian Tribes: The Autobiography of an Anthropologist . By Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1990 . x , 186 pp. Rs. 190.00. Philanthropologist, Selected Writings . By Verrier Elwin ; edited by Nari Rustomji . New...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 647–648.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Frank F. Conlon An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays . By Bernard S. Cohn . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1987 . xxvi , 682 pp. $48.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 647 An Anthropologist Among...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 481–497.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Donna M. Goldstein Abstract The four articles in this “Catastrophic Asia” collection, while showcasing distinct disciplinary approaches to the subject of what anthropologist George E. Marcus (1994) might identify as “technopolitical” catastrophes, are united in the attempt to uncover...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 953–970.
Published: 01 November 2018
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 251–272.
Published: 01 May 2013
... pre-Deng, Maoist past, or as an anthropologist, mapping in exquisite detail the lives of young Chinese engaged full-throttle in the building of China's future. One thing that struck me as I made my way through the trilogy is that, apart from differences in content and core themes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1017–1018.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Linda S. Lewis An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the Field . By Joy Hendry . New York : Routledge Press , 1999 . xiv, 167 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1017 Class debate should...
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in “Is Peking Man Still Our Ancestor?”—Genetics, Anthropology, and the Politics of Racial Nationalism in China
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2017
Figure 1. Anthropologist Liu Dongsheng lit the torch with fire created by wood-drilling. The torch was held by young people in caveman costumes who would pass the torch to cultural and athletic celebrities to start a relay from Zhoukoudian to the center of Beijing ( Renmin ribao 2008 ).
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (3): 340–343.
Published: 01 May 1951
... of the steps taken since the early colonial years to remove the shackles of despotic social systems from the peoples of Southeast Asia. THOMAS E. ENNIS West Virginia University Fijian village: an anthropologist's account of Fijian institutions, ethics, and personalities. BY BUELL QUAIN. Chicago: University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 261–275.
Published: 01 May 1963
.... Classical Indologists tend to look upon Indian anthropologists as mainly interested in almost inaccessible hill tribes, in village superstition, and sometimes in contemporary affairs; moreover a synchronistic bias in methodology has often limited the potential richness of their studies. Anthropologists who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 1975
... of different disciplines, which create in turn discontinuities between contemporary and historical studies of Indian society. Thus historians have generally not focused on caste or caste associations, while a central referent of anthropologists has been precisely the caste ( jati ) unit. Partly this reflects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (4): 1047–1078.
Published: 01 November 1995
...John R. Bowen Abstract If each world region has its own style of anthropological analysis, then surely Southeast Asia has come to be the place where interpretive approaches to culture have reigned, whether in anthropology, history, or politics. Interpretive anthropologists, drawing largely on Boas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 797–805.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Jennifer M. Blythe Abstract Melanesia is an area of cultural and ecological variety that has attracted anthropologists with diverse theoretical interests. However, the diversity of the region is tempered by recurrent patterns that represent local elaborations of common cultural themes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (4): 597–609.
Published: 01 August 1976
... that the talent to generalize from the particular (which is one of the strengths of anthropologists) has here run a little ahead of itself. My aim is not to discourage the use of Sanskritic materials, still less to imply that there are “real experts” in competition with whom the anthropologist who emulates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 895–917.
Published: 01 November 2012
... an anthropologist by trade and that many of my observations pertain to writings by anthropologists and historians, though I also engage work in other disciplines. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 My comments in this essay focus on recent scholarship on gender, sexuality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 425–427.
Published: 01 May 1964
... the nature of the phenomenon and hence the reopening of discussion by Professor Manning Nash at this time is very welcome. I should like to deal first with his main theme, and then with a few details of his paper. Professor Nash shows the usual reluctance of the cultural anthropologist to generalize; he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 10–19.
Published: 01 November 1956
...Rudra Datt Singh Abstract The current interest of anthropologists in the scientific study of the rural life of India has been faced from the very beginning with the question of comprehending the meaning of discrete village studies in the context of the universe of Indian society and culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 3–43.
Published: 01 November 1964
...G. William Skinner Abstract I set forth in this paper a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China. This neglected topic has significance with ranges far beyond the disciplinary concerns of economics. It interests anthropologists in particular because marketing...
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