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...Ruhi Grover Village Voices, Forest Choices: Joint Forest Management in India . Edited by Mark Poffenberger and Betsy McGean . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xviii, 356 pp. $24.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998...

...Mario De Grandis Mystical Forest: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Dungan Ethnographer Ali Dzhon . By Kenneth J. Yin . New York : Peter Lang , 2023 . xxii, 174 pp. ISBN: 9781433192654 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The Dungan, a community of Chinese-speaking...

...David Biggs Brian Lander's first chapter, “Deforestation in Early China,” is a fitting introduction to the volume for it explores some of the earliest accounts of deforestation in Asia and even documented grievances against creeping expansion of state control over communally managed forests...

...Deborah Winslow Above the Forest: A Study of Andamanese Ethnoanemology, Cosmology, and the Power of Ritual . By Vishvajit Panday . Delhi : Oxford university Press , 1993 . xxxiii, 319 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 246 THE JOURNAL...

...Robert Wessing The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas . By Valerio Valeri . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1999 . 592 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1444...

...Nawaraj Chaulagain The study of this unique community opens up other research possibilities on the remaining Rautes residing in Nepal and India. The writer's assumptions that Rautes’ cultural practices closely match with those of Austro-Asiatic-speaking forest foragers from northern India...

...Chris Deegan Uncommons in the Commons: Community Initiated Forest Resource Management . By Rucha Ghate , with Alka Chaturvedi . New Delhi : Concept Publishing , 2004 . 206 pp. Rs 350 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 776 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...

...Reed L. Wadley The Forest, Source of Life: The Kelabit of Sarawak . By Monica Janowski . British Museum Occasional Paper no. 143. London : The British Museum Press , Kuching : The Sarawak Museum , 2003 . vi , 154 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006...

...Nikolay Tsyrempilov In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms . By Matthew W. King . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xviii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9780231203616 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...James D. Ryan The Forest Book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampaṉ . Translated by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . x , 402 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183...

...Gail Fondahl Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya . Edited by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie . New York : Berghahn , 2015 . xiv, 198 pp. ISBN: 9781782386308 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Ken MacLean In the Forest: Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese History (1858–2006) . By Vishvajit Pandya . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2009 . ix, 427 pp. $65.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Much of the literature...

... (paper). Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand . Edited by Peter Kunstadter , E. C. Chapman , and Sanga Sabhasri . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1978 . 402 pp. Photographs, References, Index. $24.00. Decisions Against...

...Nancy D. Volk Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Free in the Forest: Ethnohistory of the Vietnamese Central Highlands, 1954–1976 . By Gerald Cannon Hickey . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1982 . xxi, 350 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Maps, Charts...

... , translated in prose under the title The Tibetan Arts of Love (trans. Jeffrey Hopkins [Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion, 1993]). For readers who are not familiar with Gendun Chopel, Tibetan poetry, or Tibet, In the Forest of Faded Wisdom will act as a great introduction to a refined, tongue-in-cheek...

...Barbara Stoler Miller The Mahābhārata. Book 2: The Book of the Assembly Hall; Book 3: The Book of the Forest . Translated and Edited By J. A. B. Van Buitenen . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1975 . xi, 864 pp. Map, Notes, Index. $33.00 Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Karl L. Hutterer Rain-Forest Collectors and Traders: A Study of Resource Utilization in Modern and Ancient Malaya . By F. L. Dunn . Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Monograph No. 5 , 1975 . xii, 151 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography. M$20.00 Copyright ©...

...Jill M. Belsky Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines: The Dynamics of Participatory Conservation . Edited by Peter Utting . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development , 2000 . xiii, 237 pp. $22.00 (paper...

...Richard P. Tucker Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Teak and Arecanut: Colonial State, Forest and People in the Western Ghats (South India), 1800–1947 . By Marlene Buchy . Pondichery : Institut Français de Pondichery , 1996 . $18.00 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS...

...K. Sivaramakrishnan Abstract During the period from 1795 to 1850, the East India Company Raj in India viewed forests chiefly as limiting agriculture. In Bengal, forested lands, classified as wastelands, had been included in zamindari (landlord) estates (Ribbentrop 1900, 60). Colonial administrators...