... analysis of the results are informed by an anthropological consciousness uncommon to previous commentators. The analysis not only takes note of patterns of cousin marriage recognized by earlier commentators (e.g., Yu 1923; Zhou 1953; Wu 1961), but also discovers instances of several of the more obscure...

...L. S. Cousins An Understanding of the Buddha . By Oscar Shaftel . New York : Schocken , 1974 . viii, 247 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $8.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 120 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Christian writings, avoiding the kind of uncritical...

... a small community of the Hellenes for the whole population and called them Greeks. A Mediterranean sailor thought the New World was India and called its people Indians. In extreme western Europe the Christian Iberians, in seven bitter centuries, drove their Mohammedanized Berber cousins back...

...Christopher Lupke Abstract Overshadowed by its massive cousin just to the west, the island and civilization of Taiwan is easily overlooked but has long been a bastion of great intellectual activity on all disciplinary fronts. Many of us in Chinese studies visit Taiwan regularly, use its resources...

...). The focus of attention, however, is on tarboorwali. Through case studies, records, political and marriage analysis, and the painstaking description of village composition, he demonstrates that the society is structured around the opposition between cousins who struggle with one another within...

... about it is that a woman addresses her husband by the same term she uses for her father's sisters' sons and her mother's brothers' sons (her cross-cousins); similarly a man addresses his wife by the same term he uses for his female cross-cousins. The term for mother-in-law is essentially the same...

..., n.p.l. Jeronis Pieris, later to become an acknowledged leader of the kardva caste of coastal Sri Lanka, between 1853 and 1856 carefully copied and preserved twentythree letters he wrote while he was an employee and later partner of his wealthy cousins in their monopoly of the distribution and sale...

... matrilateral cross-cousin marriage as well as other marriage types; conceive forms of affiliation based on descent constructs such as blood, and non-descent constructs such as houses; and establish links of alliance both along open asymmetric pathways (implying hierarchy) and along closed asymmetric cycles...

... that emphasizes how Yangdi's personality, reasoning, and goals seem to fit more closely the pattern of medieval China. E U G E N E C O O P E R and M E N G Z H A N G employ an unusual combination of anthropology and literature in their article on cousin marriage in China. They demonstrate how marriages of members...

... convincingly, pointing out that " . . . many Dravidian-type systems feature distinct spouse and sibling-in-law terms . . . so that it is apparent that in these systems too the cross-cousin kin types are the foci of consanguineal classes, not derivative members of affinal categories" ("Dravidian-Iroquois...

... inclusive category of common mythological descent). On the basis of these preliminary clarifications, Chang is able not only to confirm the prevalence of bilateral cross-cousin marriage in ancient China (which has been noted by several previous scholars) but also to establish that during the Chou dynasty...

... an acknowledged leader of the kardva caste of coastal Sri Lanka, between 1853 and 1856 carefully copied and preserved twentythree letters he wrote while he was an employee and later partner of his wealthy cousins in their monopoly of the distribution and sale of arrack (coconut whiskey) in the coffee plantation...

... reached a national public through television. They were chosen "to depict the Pathans and their life and culture as presented by their own singers" (p. 15), and that is just what they do. Male cousins appear (because of Pathan inheritance patterns) as natural enemies, and the Pathan code of "hospitality...

... and the Road Ahead [CHAE-JIN LEE] SHAFTEL, An Understanding of the Buddha [L. S. COUSINS] WHITING, The Chinese Calculus ofDeterrence: India and Indochina [KARUNAKAR GUPTA] 537 119 117 537 117 539 535 538 540 711 121 711 535 120 713 Central Asia BELIAEV (Slobin, ed.; Slobin and Slobin, trans Central Asian Music...

... in their kinship systems. The most direct relevance of this book for those working in Asian societies is that many Malay and Indonesian peoples of Southeast Asia resemble their linguistic cousins in Eastern Oceania with respect to adoption and fosterage. Djamour, Firth, Geertz, Jay, and Freeman have reported...

... in music and dancing. After she became the favorite consort of the T'ang Emperor Hsiian-tsung (r. 712-56), her cousin Yang Kuo-chung was appointed chief minister. During the rebellion of the Sogdian-Turkish general An Lu-shan, Yang Kuei-fei and her cousin were blamed for the debacle and executed...

... Cousins rst in Ireland and after 1913 in India. Giving an overview of early feminist (and nationalist) activism in both places, the chapter analyzes the understanding of historiography and historical agency (p. 108) that motivated Cousins s presentation of herself as the primary originator (p. 107...

... about it is that a woman addresses her husband by the same term she uses for her father's sisters' sons and her mother's brothers' sons (her cross-cousins); similarly a man addresses his wife by the same term he uses for his female cross-cousins. The term for mother-in-law is essentially the same...

... descent groups, matrilateral cross-cousin marriage, and enduring affinal alliances between lineages. These kinship institutions pervade all aspects of social, political, and economic life and it is absolutely essential that they be thoroughly understood if one is to gain an adequate under- standing...