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... the republic secured its independence. In her book, Drexler paints a different portrait. It is not at all clear that the majority of the population ever desired the absolute break with the republic for which the more extreme elements of the GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or Free Aceh Movement) strove. The origins...

... of events” (p. 13). Most contributors, especially Edward Aspinall and William Nessen, position themselves against Geoffrey Robinson's seminal 1998 essay examining the post–Soeharto GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or Free Aceh Movement) rebellion as a response to economic exploitation and Indonesian military...

...) subsumes all rituals concerning the devaya: - i.e., an keliya, gam maduva (see below), maleliya, perahera (Processions) Prayers directed to the deities. Also known as: kattandiya, yakku vedarala, dehi vedarala. Also known as nekatrala (time master). dola (food) Possession Dancing Singing...

... displacement as a strategy because control over population was key to legitimacy in the conflict. Edward Aspinall examines displacement in Aceh as the result of Indonesian military security strategies and GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or Free Aceh Movement) campaigns against Javanese transmigrants. However...

... used it for years in teaching classes on language and culture. "Possessed" is the other essay and was written specifically for the new edition. It deals with the Gerakan Acheh Merdeka (GAM), the movement that has sought independence and political-economic justice for Aceh since the early years...

... of Chang-cha should be read as the more familiar Chinese form Chang-chia (Tib. ICangs-skya). Mrs. Gordon also perpetuates the pretty but somewhat discredited myth of Buddhism being introduced by the two wives of "Song-tsen Gam-po" (p. 5) and gives the date of ca. A.D. 747 for Padmasambhava being summoned...

... this and other monuments in Mukhalin- nately remaining in India: sixth century bronzes gam. Intricate cursive scrolls and other devices from AmaravatI (in the Madras Museum) (many unfortunately still plastered over) eighth century Pallava bronzes in the Prince border door and niches. In style they lie...

... bronzes gam. Intricate cursive scrolls and other devices from AmaravatI (in the Madras Museum) (many unfortunately still plastered over) eighth century Pallava bronzes in the Prince border door and niches. In style they lie be- of Wales Museum in Bombay, ninth century tween earlier Gupta forms...

... of Chang-cha should be read as the more familiar Chinese form Chang-chia (Tib. ICangs-skya). Mrs. Gordon also perpetuates the pretty but somewhat discredited myth of Buddhism being introduced by the two wives of "Song-tsen Gam-po" (p. 5) and gives the date of ca. A.D. 747 for Padmasambhava being summoned...

... of citizen auxiliaries to assist police in each neighborhood is also a contrast to the lack of communal cooperative efforts with the police in this country. The handling of the "victimless crimes" (gam- The contents of the book include a beginning bling, prostitution, alcohol, pornography, ho- chapter...

... of the "victimless crimes" (gam- The contents of the book include a beginning bling, prostitution, alcohol, pornography, ho- chapter showing that Japan is a free but self-dis- mosexuality, and drugs) is studied as a special ciplined law-abiding society ("heaven for a problem in the two countries. Among other cop...

... survived, and ethnography of law, but the perspective built how the institutional and substantive legal amal- there does not seem to consistently inform the gams of colonial history have fared since. Unlike rest of the book. On methodological grounds most other studies, however, he pays attention alone...

... two "plays of the Gods:" the rituals of Gam Maduva and An keliya. A communal Gam Maduva had not been performed for three years, and even though the paraphernalia were still treasured in the homes, An \eliya had not been performed, it was said, for twenty years. The Gam Maduva ritual has been described...

... the sections on the Vasco da Gam a epoch. It enables us to see ourselves in terms of the way our deeds affected Asians and appeared to Asians. It was one of the wisest of Americans who said: "What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say." Mr. Panikkar's book helps us to know ourselves in this way...