...Penelope Francks Technological Change in Japan's Beef Industry . By James R. Simpson , Tadashi Yoshida , Akira Miyazaki , and Ryohei Kada . Boulder, Colo. : Westview , 1985 . (Westview Special Studies in Agricultural Science and Policy.) xiv, 264 pp. Illustrations, Notes, English...

...Chris Ames Abstract After the U.S. victory in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, devastated Okinawans lived off of U.S. military rations, including unfamiliar foods such as pork luncheon meat and corned beef hash. Okinawans incorporated these and other U.S.-made goods into daily life as “ Amerikamun...

... research and will provoke further scholarship on women's language and related issues. SENKO K. MAYNARD Rutgers University Technological Change in Japan's Beef Industry. By JAMES R. SIMPSON, TADASHI YOSHIDA, AKIRA MIYAZAKI, and RYOHEI KADA. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. (Westview Special Studies...

... Eating meat, particularly beef, has become an increasingly controversial subject in Indian public discourse since the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the 2014 general election. Contemporary Indian media might lead one to conclude that the nation is divided between supporters of Muslim, Christian...

... of producing marbled beef, which results in animals being fed and maintained for uneconomically long periods. The authors see the key to overcoming these structural problems and improving the competitiveness ofJapanese beef producers as lying in newly available technology. The final part of the book describes...

..., but it was preferred to Brahmanization for several reasons: Brahmanization is subsumed in the wider process of Sanskritization though at some points Brahmanization and Sanskritization are at variance with each other. For instance, the Brahmans of the Vedic period drank soma, an alcoholic drink,1 ate beef, and offered...

... policy instruments. A more detailed and lengthy second section examines the grain, dairy, beef, sugar, fruit, forest, and fishery sectors of Japanese agriculture. A shorter concluding section focuses on adjustment issues and the need for agricultural reform. The book's organization facilitates...

... and on the sacred cow. Regarding the latter point, his case is convincing enough. A good handful of passages in ancient texts are shown to confirm that the Vedic cattle-herders considered beef a normal part of their diet. In the pre-Buddhist age, the cow's (like the horse's) very aura of sacredness sometimes...

... during the Meiji regime. Instead of rice and beans, ranchers left strychnine. In a bid to modernize Japan's agriculture, to raise more beef and horse flesh, the government (especially the Kaitakushi on Hokkaido) established a bounty system and imported expert wolf killers from the United States. By 1905...

... the number of people killed in India in the past two to three years alone over accusations of beef eating or intercaste marriage, this is surely an understatement. Davis does treat the reception and transformation of Dharmaśāstra during the colonial period, and includes a brief section on Dharmaśāstra post...

... equally worthy in the United States. There is little if anything in this book that has not already been published in this country. The American publisher seems to have recognized the limitations of this volume since an effort was made to beef it up by having Admiral Theobald provide textual insertions...

... become their permanent home. Chung-Sok Suh's examination of the Korean beef trade is interesting, but might have looked more at home in a political-economy collection. Likewise, Richard Chauvel's thorough exploration of Australia's historical relationship with West New Guinea seems rather out of place...

... of them now become their permanent home. Chung-Sok Suh's examination of the Korean beef trade is interesting, but might have looked more at home in a political-economy collection. Likewise, Richard Chauvel's thorough exploration of Australia's historical relationship with West New Guinea seems rather out...

... and Frederick to the cultural contexts and implications of words and concepts. This results in translations that sometimes make things more exotic than they really are (as when "dendeng ragi," beef with coconut, is translated as "meat in yeast") or that oversimplify complex things (in 'Acceptance," Frederick's...

... accurately on a word-for-word basis, he is less sensitive than McGlynn and Frederick to the cultural contexts and implications of words and concepts. This results in translations that sometimes make things more exotic than they really are (as when "dendeng ragi," beef with coconut, is translated as "meat...

... to consume beef, one performed into being a new kind of identity that rendered irrelevant the status that one was born under, with all the normative expectations for conduct that such status brought into play expectations that provided the basic building blocks for Edo ction. This glimmering of social...

... of occupations at first but retained their old caste title for a time. Both beef-eating and widowremarriage are highly disapproved by the Bene Israel, even when they know that such prohibitions are not found in the Pentateuch. One older man even volunteered to remark on the subject, "But don't you think...

... Young Bangal as ultra-radicals because they were ardent Westernizers. Ultra-radicalism, in terms of actual behavior, is evidently equatable with eating beef, drinking brandy, dressing like a European dandy, reciting quotations from Shakespeare, and behaving like an English lord on a clerk's salary...

... at first but retained their old caste title for a time. Both beef-eating and widowremarriage are highly disapproved by the Bene Israel, even when they know that such prohibitions are not found in the Pentateuch. One older man even volunteered to remark on the subject, "But don't you think the Hindu...

... of Gaon and near the family farm; the family's property will be valued at between ten and twenty thousands of Rupees; he/she will eat meat but not beef, and if Maratha by caste, the village's three vegetarian castes will refuse, because of casteascribed pollution taboos, to accept food from him/her...