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...Susan Rodgers Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba . By Jill Forshee . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . xiv , 265 pp. $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 918 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES have...

...Jill Forshee Although not a deeply informative study of Chin culture or artistic significance, in its scope of pictorial references through its quality and quantity of textiles, Mantels of Merit will appeal to many weavers, collectors, and textile scholars. Moreover, as noted, the book...

...Jill Forshee By comparison, the formal portraits of governor-generals (most in the service of the VOC) begin with the darkly severe, angular likeness of Jan Pieterszon Coen (ca. 1650, p. 79), infamous for his ruthless brutality in the coveted “Spice Islands” of Banda and beyond. The portraits...

... to determine cost of living, based on the price of rice, but when I wanted to find it again, there appeared to be nothing in the index referencing it. LILLIAN TRAGER University of Wisconsin-Parksick Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba. By JILL FORSHEE. Honolulu: University...

..., and entrepreneurs provide rich examples of how individual motivations are tied to artistic production in an arena in which artworks are still primarily unsigned. In this sense, Adams's work contributes to the kind of detailed and personal ethnography of local artistic traditions that Jill Forshee provided...

...] DRAKARD, A Kingdom of Words: Language and Power in Sumatra O O H N R. B O W E N ] EDER, A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines [LILLIAN TRAGER] E M M E R S O N (ed Indonesia Beyond Suharto [ W I L L I A M H . F R E D E R I C K ] FORSHEE, Between the Folds...