.... Birobijan, he states, was established by Stalin as an autonomous Jewish area because of "Jewish influence Wesleyan University DAVID ABOSCH Haniwa: The Clay Sculpture of Protohistoric Japan. By MIKI FUMIO. English adaptation by ROY ANDREW MILLER. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, i960. 161. Color and Gravure...

...Vijaya Nagarajan 820 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in which the goddess transforms herself and her human worshipers, this book makes a profound contribution to the study of the feminine dimension of the divine in India. ELAINE CRADDOCK Southwestern University Gifts of Earth: Terracottas and Clay...

...Katherine Anne Paul Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, Late 10th to Early 13th Centuries . By Christian Luczanits . Chicago : Serindia , 2004 . xiv , 353 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 442 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...

...Donald Clay Johnson Historical Dictionary of India . Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 20. By Surjit Mansingh . Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press , 1996 . xl, 512 pp. $78.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 255 the "Poor...

...Donald Clay Johnson Atlas and Survey of South Asian History . By Karl J. Schmidt . Armonk, N. Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1995 . xvi, 168 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 195 The book is organized...

...Donald Clay Johnson The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives . Edited by Francis Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . 520 pp. $49.40. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

...Donald Clay Johnson ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index. Volume 1. . Edited by Karel R. van Kooij . London : Kegan Paul , in association with International Institute for Asian Studies, 1999 . xxxiv, 597 pp. $161.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... with joint discussions of China and India: the relationship between democracy and development. We invited economist Pranab Bardhan, author of a forthcoming book on the political economy of India and China titled Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay , to reflect on the subject, concentrating in particular on issues...

... contribution to the study of the feminine dimension of the divine in India. ELAINE CRADDOCK Southwestern University Gifts of Earth: Terracottas and Clay Sculptures of India. By STEPHEN P. HUYLER. Middletown, N.J.: Grantha, 1996. 232 pp. 203 illustrations. $75.00 (cloth). Lavishly illustrated, Stephen Huyler's...

... painter reinterprets Rama as an artist, thereby affirming his own professional identity. The depiction of Rama making a festival icon of the goddess (fig. 4) draws upon the form and organization of clay icons for special celebrations, and the scroll thereby refers to the interrelated making and meaning...

... activism in colonial India to a banal jockeying for power. ROCHONA MAJUMDAR University of Chicago Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, Late 10th to Early 13th Centuries. By CHRISTIAN LUCZANITS. Chicago: Serindia, 2004. xiv, 353 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Even for those of us fortunate enough...

... is narrow, including only browns, blacks, yellowish brown and bluish black. But the glaze is typically streaked or mottled, and the various types have been called "hare's fur," "partridge feather," or "oil spot." It is reasonably certain that these glazes resulted from fusible clay slips, and were in most...

... of Fukuzawa, second series) ( Tokyo , 1933 ), 1 : 742 – 749 . 21 JWM , Mar. 3, 1888. 22 MacCauley Clay , Memories and memorials: gatherings from an eventful life ( Tokyo : Fukuin Printing Co. , 1914 ), 504 – 505 ; “Unitarianism in Japan; views of Mr. Kentaro Kaneko...