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... it to a broader international context. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 anthropology Chinese nationalism genetics Homo sinensis the Human Genome Project Peking Man racial discourse In 2001, the Journal of Asian Studies published an article titled “Peking Man...

... of South Korean intended parents entering inter-Asian gamete markets to explore how donated gametes from Taiwanese egg donors have become a “pan-East Asian” genetic commodity that both troubles and reveals the racialized categories and ideologies in South Korea. By examining the marketing and matching...

... frequently in home ceremonials. Realizing that the historico-genetic study of any religion seeks the point of view of the worshiper himself, we set out to find, if possible, the answer to this insistent question: What are the benefits which the ordinary householder wishes to obtain for himself and his family...

... States, and China. China s inclusion in this consortium is indicative of the international stature that Chinese geneticists currently enjoy, yet genetics is a relatively new eld in China, having only taken root in the 1920s. In this comprehensive history of biological science in modern China, Laurence...

... and Geography of Human Genes. By L. LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA, PAOLO M E N O Z Z I and ALBERTO P I A Z Z A . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiii, 526 maps, 541 pp. text. $150.00. This encyclopedic volume summarizes major contributions to our knowledge of genetic differences between modern...

..., and Prejudices . Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies . Ballinger Scott , et al. 1992 . “ Southeast Asian Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Reveals Genetic Continuity of Ancient Mongoloid Migrations .” Genetics 130 ( 4 ): 139 –52. Barmé Geremie. 1999 . In the Red...

... , pp. 163 –64, relying upon James Sauvé, “The Divine Victim,” in puhvel , as well as the articles by Puhvel and Ward in that volume. 7 Larson , p. 172. The phrase “genetic model” has been used before, e.g. by Evon Vogt in studiesof Mayan culture. See also Littleton's article in this issue...

... ,” Journal of the Folklore Institute (Indiana University), vol. 6 ( 1969 ), pp. 70 – 84 . 16 Dumézil was a student of the eminent French philologist Antoine Meillet. See Littleton, The New Comparative Mythology , p. 1. 17 I should emphasize that my use of the term “genetically related...

... or hyperbolic partisan perspectives that currently dominate this global rift. The dominant response to novel challenges of the genomics revolution was, in Scott's terms, “high modernist”: a global panopticon of linked state structures to classify, register, and control products of genetic engineering...

... the investigations and interactions of a transnational cadre of scienti c elite working in many countries. Chinese scientists engaged in plant genetics, for example, regularly cited and referred to the work of prominent Japanese or Russian scientists (p. 98). Chinese geneticist Tan Jiazhen took advantage...

... Lindee makes a similar argument in regard BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 561 to science in her study of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) and its effort to determine what, if any, inheritable human genetic mutations were produced by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book's title is derived...

..., hence some repetition (e.g., Southworth's pidginization hypothesis is discussed three times). A large section of the book (pp. 16-115) is devoted to the problems of subclassification in each of the four principal South Asian genetic stocks and to the suitability of various linguistic models from...

... to believe that the Tharu consist of one people in the genetic sense, that they must have shared one language in the past even if they do not do so today, and that any study of Tharu ethnicity must seek to prove this and be based on this premise. The point that Hechler has missed is that even if it is shown...

... classical genetics (Morganism) was banned in favor of Soviet-derived Michurin genetics, controlled by Lysenko. In addition, in 1956, at the time this essay was written, the Qingdao BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 537 Genetics Conference broke that ban, permitting classical genetics to compete...

..., it is indistinguishable from Soviet Russia, as the two Communist powers share the same basic genetic traits. Such a focus on genus characteristics to the exclusion of individual traits implies not only a rejection of the possibility of mutation in political evolution, but also a denial of the sovereignty and individual...

... they are popularly imagined to be, though they have little choice if confined in pens (Mizelle 2011 ). Genetic and zooarchaeological evidence indicates that pigs were domesticated from wild boars in multiple locations across Eurasia (Price and Hongo, forthcoming ). This process began with people managing wild...

... 1983 194 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The discussion is somewhat confused by the authors' idiosyncratic use of the term typology to refer to all types of linguistic classification, including genetic (sometimes, it would appear, also to linguistic description), thereby blurring the distinction...

... that the Tharu are genetically adapted to their malarial habitat; he remarked that, "[although Tharus are popularly believed to be immune to malaria, it is more probable that the populations which came to be known as Tharu lived here because they could establish themselves nowhere else" (pp. 753-54). In Many...

...Lothar von Falkenhausen The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia . Edited by Victor H. Mair . Volume I: Archaeology, Migration and Nomadism, Linguistics; volume II: Genetics and Physical Anthropology, Metallurgy, Textiles, Geography and Climatology, History...