...David Hicks Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia . Edited by Frans Hüsken and Jeremy Kemp . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1991 . 221 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 781 The remainder of the contributions do...

... containing supplementary material to existing entries. There are also corrections and regroupings of some of the cognates of the original. The new sets of cognates are more convincing in that they eliminate some irregular correspondences. If two or more languages have developed a new, but related, meaning...

... on the Sinhalese of the Dry Zone of Northern Ceylon; and Professor Mabuchi on the Atayal, Paiwan, and Puyuma aborigines of Formosa. For such systems, the editor as well as Drs. Freeman and Leach propose the adoption of the term "cognatic" signifying "akin by birth." As Dr. Freeman points out (p. 85), our...

... argues in this book that Korean and Japanese are cognate languages, in the technical sense used by linguists: both descend from a single linguistic parent, proto-Japanese-Korean. The book will be of interest to linguists, archaeologists, and historians concerned with the late prehistory of Northeast Asia...

...-Tai on the basis of comparative analysis. The present work provides an exposition of Li's proposed reconstruction of Proto-Tai phonology, a reconstruction based on the analysis of sound correspondences in cognate word sets drawn from languages representing the major subgroups of the Tai language...

... at Manoa Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia. Edited by FRANS H U S K E N and JEREMY K E M P . Leiden: KITLV Press, 1991. 221 pp. Since I960, when George P. Murdock published his Social Structure in Southeast Asia (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Viking Publications in Anthropology 29...

... A Preliminary Description of the Javanese Kinship System. By R. M. KOENTJARANINGRAT. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Cultural Report Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. 111. Glossary of Javanese Terms, References. $1.50. The analysis of cognatic kinship is the biggest remaining problem...

... Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. 111. Glossary of Javanese Terms, References. $1.50. The analysis of cognatic kinship is the biggest remaining problem in the study of descent systems, one that has been neglected by the great majority of anthropologists and to which even the specially directed works...

.... Part two outlines some basic features of the Burmese cognatic kinship system. Spiro reviews three realms of information: cultural conceptions of kinship (e.g., notions of consanguinity and affinity, biological bonding, and moral obligation as essential elements in kinship), kin groupings (the family...

... social history in general. Peterson argues that patriarchal, patrilineal, patrilocal society was perfected in Korea only in the late Choson, from about 1724 to 1910, when Korea completed the process of Confucianization. By contrast, the early Choson had an ambilinial or cognatic descent system, in which...

... of a cognation of the meanings is just as "unscientific" and risky as categorical ideographic or pictographic interpretations of a compound graph in which one has failed to recognize a "phonetic." Suppose the earlier meaning was something like "the sides" which the prototype of ~fo could very well have been...

...) that the Japanese particle ga may have been borrowed from the Wu dialects is extremely unlikely, in view of cognates in Ryukyu and Korean, together with etymological affinity (in both Japanese and Korean) with the interrogative particle ka. The examples, which are mostly cited from early Japanese literature...

... in their ideological and cultural features as well. From Madagascar to Hawaii, language communities not only share cognate words, but cognate words for specific ideologically charged relationships, concerning origins, ancestry, and alliance. Thus puqun (or something similar to it) often means something like "tree...

..., History, Narratives, Colonial English. By K U M K U M SANGARI. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999- xlix, 503 pp. Rs 650 (cloth). Kumkum Sangati's formidably intelligent book presents itself as a critique of two cognate projects that of European and North American literary modernism and postmodern theory (in which...

... proved the impossibility of a cognation of the meanings is just as "unscientific" and risky as categorical ideographic or pictographic interpretations of a compound graph in which one has failed to recognize a "phonetic." Suppose the earlier meaning was something like "the sides" which the prototype...

... the difficulty of proving genetic relationship in Altaic, by providing an excellent example which shows that apparent cognates in Turko-Chuvash, Mongolian, and ManchuTungus may, in fact, prove on deeper investigation to have resulted from a sequence of borrowings. The contribution of Hovdhaugen (pp. 71-77...

... that his achievements had guaranteed his status as an Ancestor among all those Khmers who were connected with his kinship group, which was bound to be an extended one because it was organized in accordance with the principle of cognatic kinship. (Wolters 1982a, 7) Apart from the issues of male prowess...

... prayer in Tibetan script. Sino-lndian studies 5, no. 3/4 (1957), 192-99. . A Kottish-Tibetan-Chinese word equation. Academia Sinica. Inst. of History and Philology. Bulletin 1 (1956), 441-43. . Tibetan gseb and cognate words. BSOAS 20 (1957), 523-32. SIMONSSEN, NILS. Indo-tibetische Studien; die Methoden...

.... Marcus, which argued for fresh approaches to how we think about “doing ethnography.” 1 In the scholarly sphere, Rutherford argues, this means engaging with our cognate disciplines more than we are wont to do, and in the human sphere she suggests we should “take responsibility for the worlds we build...

... such cognate but still significantly distinct terms as “reality,” “the thing,” “object,” “the world,” and “the real” to point to the same referent, that is, what language is supposed to represent. The terms, however, originating from diverse intellectual traditions ranging from metaphysics to Lacanian...