...Marlene J. Mayo Abstract The Iwakura embassy's encounter with Hamilton Fish at the State Department in 1872 is far more than a quaint but insignificant episode in the relations between Japan and the United States and deserves resurrection from the footnotes of history. The two sides, much...

...Milton J. Esman Market Power, Vertical Linkages, and Government Policy: The Fish Industry in Peninsular Malaysia . By Ishak Haji Omar . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xii, 192 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Joanna Kirkpatrick Gender Transformation, Power and Resistance among Women in Sri Lanka: Fish Don't Talk About the Water . By Carla Risseeuw . New Delhi : Manohar , 1991 . xvi, 399 pp. Rs. 350. Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh . By Sarah C. White...

...Say Sok Life, Fish and Mangroves: Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia . By Melissa Marschke . Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press , 2012 . xi, 179 pp. ISBN: 9780776607726 (paper). 20 Caroline...

...Carolyn S. Stevens Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World . By Theodore C. Bestor . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University fo California Press , 2004 . xxviii, 411 pp. $60.00 (cloth) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1022 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...

...Cheryl Crowley The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns . By Howard Hibbett . Tokyo and London : Kodansha International , 2002 . 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 955 general...

...Susan D. Russell The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community . By Janet Carsten . New York : Oxford University Press , 1997 . 314 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society...

...G. William Skinner Rusembilan: A Malay Fishing Village in Southern Thailand . By Thomas M. Fraser Jr. Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1960 . Cornell Studies in Anthropology, I. xviii , 281 . Appendices, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index, Foreword by Lauriston Sharp. $5.75...

...Bert A. Gerow Takashima, A Japanese Fishing Community . By Edward Norbeck . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1954 . xi, 232 . Appendix, Bibliography and Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 117 Whatever the future, Mr. Bisson...

... Japanese social mores. What is oppressive for Owada Masako in the 1990s was liberating for women in the 1890s. BOB TADASHI WAKABAYASHI York University Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan. By A R N E KALLAND. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. 355 pp. $38.00. Given the longstanding scholarly focus...

...Susan Bayly Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community . By Kalpana Ram . London and New Jersey : Zed Press , 1991 . xix, 216 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 760 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...William W. Kelly Shingū: A Study of a Japanese Fishing Community . By Arne Kalland . London : Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 44), 1981 . xii , 198 pp. Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Figures, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography. $16.25...

...Joseph R. Morgan Fishing in Troubled Waters: Proceedings of an Academic Conference on Territorial Claims in the South China Sea . Edited by R. D. Hill , Norman G. Owen , and E. V. Roberts . Hong Kong : Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong , 1991 . ix, 359 pp. HK$160.00...

...Robert B. Marks Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China . By Micah S. Muscolino . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2009 . vi , 286 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Most...

...Peter Reeves Fishing in the Sea of Greed . Directed by Anand Patwardhan . 1998 . 44:18 minutes. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 492 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES thus becomes much more than Makiko's story; it is a "household diary." In the section...

... stabilized so that the figures are both accurate and reasonably predictive. Over half these chapters, on landforms, climate and soils, fishing, manufacturing, and various staples, were written by Robert Huke himself, several times a Fulbright In turn, the author treats of the physical environment...