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...Michael Herzfeld Democracy and National Identity in Thailand . By Michael Kelly Connors . New York and London : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . ix, 271 pp. $114.50; £70.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T A S I A 1069...

...David A. Titus The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-war Japanese Politics . By Lesley Connors . London : Croom Helm , 1987 . 224 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 372 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N S T U D I E S anything less...

... the deep trance of Rangda and Barong's followers in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's classic 1930s film {Trance and Dance in Bali) to the more contemporary Geertzian conception of "the theatre state." One of the contributions of this collaborative project by Linda Connor, Patsy Asch, and Timothy BOOK...

... to these unpublished papers. Linda Connor, an anthropologist, is concerned in her article with the export of psychiatric care, based on European ideas of the etiology and treatment of mental illness, to Bali, where patients have different beliefs about the cause of mental distress. In surveying patients using mental...

... of Massachusetts, Boston The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-war Japanese Politics. By L E S LEY CONNORS. London: Croom Helm, 1987. 224 pp. $55.00. Lesley Connors clearly states her intention "to substitute for the bland and passive public persona attributed to Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940) a picture...

... by the postChristian feminism that informs Brewer s analysis. OONA THOMMES PAREDES Arizona State University Democracy and National Identity in Thailand. By MICHAEL KELLY CONNORS. New York and London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. ix, 271 pp. $114.50; £70.00 (cloth). In this constructively controversial work of political...

... was also employed in the effort to fend off these domestic pressures to introduce democracy (Connors 2012 ; Thompson 2001 ). This attack put pro-democracy campaigners on the defensive, leading them to reinterpret culturalist arguments to favor their struggle for political liberties. While these two...

... REVIEWS JAPAN 373 Connors also makes it clear that Saionji was committed to the development of enlightened democracy in Japan. That commitment did not necessarily mean support for political parties and party government. If party leaders did not measure up to his standards of enlightened international...

... organizations (NGOs), academics, and civil society activists. 3 Most members of the network have no direct contact with the King himself, but act out of loyalty to what they see as his intentions. As Michael Connors has brilliantly argued, the dominant political idiom in Thailand since the 1970s has been...

...Gregory V. Raymond Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution . Edited by Michael Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand . Copenhagen : NIAS Press , 2021 . viii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9788776942854. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Less than a year...

... trance and possession begun in the 1930s by Jane Belo, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson and carried out more recently by Linda Connor, with films by Tim Asch and Patsy Asch. It is rare and valuable to have multiple accounts of trance and possession in one society over a sixty-year period. A final...

... on the interplay between traditional and modern medicine, provided by Boedihartono, Connor, and Muninjaya, and the ethnomedical data on Sumba by Gunawan and Mitchell. The focus of the work is on Indonesia and the authors have only summarily connected their data to general theoretical discussions of such topics...

... two films, which are treated in more conventional chapters. The Medium Is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage, deals with Jero's work as a masseuse, particularly with the treatment and case history of Ida Bagus, a man suffering from seizures and sterility. Massage, Jero explains to Connor, opens...

... and upholding ethnically plural states and concomitant nation-building approaches. Walker Connor, a leading expert on nationalism, had raised this issue as far back as the 1960s although little heed was paid to his warnings at the time. But confronted with intractable ethnic conflicts that conventional conflict...

... project by Linda Connor, Patsy Asch, and Timothy Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Trade and Structural Change in Pacific Asia . Edited by Colin I. Bradford Jr. , and William H. Branson . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1987 . xx, 558 pp. ...

... political discipline that of democracy. A key question that Connors has left unanswered and that an anthropologist would expect to approach ethnographically is that of the actual modalities of popular engagement with these political processes. In the absence of such local-level analysis, many readers...

... (paper). The onset of violent ethnic conflict in many states after the fall of Communism has seriously called into question the efficacy of maintaining and upholding ethnically plural states and concomitant nation-building approaches. Walker Connor, a leading expert on nationalism, had raised this issue...

... with institutions which seem at first not to change such as cremations. Hence Linda Connor's elaborate work on the discourse about cremation practices from the 1920s on, when the first attempts at changing these practices were being made. She gives a close account of the reformist debates: the challenging modernist...

... and possession begun in the 1930s by Jane Belo, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson and carried out more recently by Linda Connor, with films by Tim Asch and Patsy Asch. It is rare and valuable to have multiple accounts of trance and possession in one society over a sixty-year period. A final chapter proposes...

... was to Shinoda Jisaku a terra nullius . This Latin term, despite claims that is derived from the Roman legal term res nullius , is arguably a modern invention (Connor 2005 ; Fitzmaurice 2007 ). Usually translated as “no man's land,” terra nullius actually does not refer to an uninhabited or less-populated...