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...Douglas G. Haring Social Anthropology in Melanesia: A Review of Research . By A. P. Elkin . Published under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1953 . xiii, 166 . 27/6 Social Anthropology in Polynesia: A Review of Research...

...Nicola Tannenbaum Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand . By Katherine A. Bowie . New York : Columbia University Press , 1997 . xx, 393 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Jeffrey E. Hanes A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets . By Brian Moeran . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1996 . xi, 322 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 541 data on the subject...

...Andrew Turton Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand . By Eric Wakin . Madison : University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph No. 7 , 1992 . 319 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $14.95(paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Shohini Ghosh Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics . By Naisargi N. Dave . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . vii, 280 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Over the last two decades...

..., what is left unsaid and under-synthesized here raises more important questions about the risks and limitations of native anthropology under political repression in Tibetan regions of the PRC. Based at a university in the PRC's west, Tenzin Jinba knows well the extreme risks of publicly debating Tibetan...

...Barbara N. Ramusack Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the Present . By Aya Ikegame . London : Routledge , 2013 . xvi, 216 pp. $145.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Although some stellar...

...Masao Imamura Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien . By Hjorleifur Jonsson . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications , 2014 . xv, 154 pp. ISBN: 9780877277644 (paper, also available in cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...Nicholas Harkness An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945 . By Robert Oppenheim . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . xx, 423 pp. ISBN: 9780803285613 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...Richard K. Beardsley Proceedings of the Fourth Far-Eastern Prehistory and the Anthropology Division of the Eighth Pacific Science Congresses Combined . Part I: Prehistory, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology (First Fascicle and Second Fascicle: Section I). Ed. H. Otley Beyer . Diliman...

...J. Joseph Errington Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts, … Showbiz . By James A. Boon . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1999 . xxi , 361 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

...Robert Rozehnal Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult . By Pnina Werbner . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2003 . xvi , 348 pp. $49.95 (cloth): $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I...

...Susan Rodgers The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction . By Victor T. King and William D. Wilder . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xxii , 384 pp. $37.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U...

...Robert Oppenheim Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 List of References Allen Chizuko T. 1990 . “ Northeast Asia Centered Around Korea: Ch'oe Namson's View of History .” Journal of Asian Studies 49 ( 4 ): 787 – 806 . Asad Talal , ed. 1973 . Anthropology...

...Hirokazu Miyazaki Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique . By Sonia Ryang . New York : Routledge , 2004 . xiv, 256 pp. $100.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1028 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S citizen), and kokka (state; nation...

... and Anthropology in the People's Republic of China . Edited by Alice Rossi . Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press , 1985 . 161 pp. References, Appendixes. $3 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 826 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Despite these shortcomings, Seymour...

...Peter F. Laird An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand . By Louis Golomb . Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 1985 . (Illinois Studies in Anthropology, no. 15.) xiv, 314 pp. Map, Photographs, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $23.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

..., and a map of his Indian travels all help to make this volume an indispensable one for Forster scholars and Indophiles alike. ROBIN JARED LEWIS Columbia University Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. By MARK HOLMSTROM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x, 342 pp...

...J. H. Broomfield India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization . By Bernard S. Cohn , Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall , 1971 . xv, 164 , pp. Maps. $6.96 (hardbound) $2.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 712 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lasting...

...Eugene Cooper The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society . Edited by Emily Martin Ahern and Hill Gates . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1981 . 491 pp. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 VOL. XLII, N O . 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1982 Book...