... Until they eat stones. By RUSSELL BRINES. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1944. 340 pp. $3.00. Historians of the present war will prize all books of recollection written by persons under Japanese control in the period after Pearl Harbor. Until they eat stones is such a volume...

... of title is puzzling—the reader half-expects a personal narrative—but Eating Her Curries and Kway follows a standard academic format. The Singapore neophyte will find it pleasantly readable, but the serious cultural scholar will also benefit from Tarulevicz's steady stream of insights and fresh...

... difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubja brahmans of Katyayan gotra (primarily an exogamous group composed of several lineages) present this type of problem to the social...

... identify or are identified as nonvegetarian may eat meat only rarely, while those who identify as vegetarian may in fact eat meat on occasion, for instance, to signal their cosmopolitan sophistication. Second, while the operation of the local domestic beef trade depends in no small measure upon...

...Šumit Ganguly Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India . By Benjamin Robert Siegel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper). Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind . By Nico Slate...

...Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine . Edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer . Vancouver : UBC Press , 2011 . viii, 321 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

...Thomas DuBois Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000 . By Jacob Eyferth . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2009 . xv , 335 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Shirley Chang The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China . By Gang Yue . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1999 . 447 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS...