... A R K R. W O O D W A R D Arizona State University The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community. By J A N E T 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...

...Patricia Sippel Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan . By Arne Kalland . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1995 . 355 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 794 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES My summary does scant justice to the complexity...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Joseph R. Morgan Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 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...

...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...

... ; Say Sok , “ Limited State and Strong Social Forces: Fishing Lot Management in Cambodia ,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 45 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 174 –93 . 21 Ronald...

...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...

... into the aesthetics and genres of Kazakh oral narratives. NATHAN LIGHT University of Toledo JAPAN Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World. By THEODORE C. BESTOR. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xxviii, 411 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). When my husband was a university...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Albert W. C. T. Herre Abstract Fish and fisheries have an importance in the economy of rice eating populations that is difficult for people here to comprehend. Rice is the most important item in the life of such countries. Though not important in bank clearings or financial statistics, fish...

... formation, and naval units consisted of fishing vessels that were commandeered for transporting armies within bow-range or sword-reach of the enemy. Thus, all battles, whether on land or at sea, were little more than “monster fencing matches.” But the introduction of the Portuguese arquebus...

..., Nagasaki and Hakodate, lacked the hinterland to make them much more than coaling or victualling stations. The third port was a small fishing village of twenty or thirty huts. It was built on a mud bank, backed by an odious swamp and commanded by surrounding hills. The Japanese called the place Yokohama...

.... On the morning of the chosen day, villagers flock to the main village temple, where wooden statues of the divine occupants are congregated with those from other local temples. Each family sets up a table in the courtyard, lights incense and candles, and presents its offerings (of chicken, duck, goose, fish, rice...