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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Clifford Reis Jones Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Nandikeśvara's Abhinayadarpaṇam : A Manual of Gesture and Posture Used in Ancient Indian Dance and Drama . Edited, annotated, and translated by Manomohan Ghosh . 3d rev. ed. Calcutta : Manisha...
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Published: 01 August 2021
Figure 2. Twister touts his overblown ego in a winner's gesture in Ip Man 2 . More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1181–1183.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the courtly and colonial periods, which in turn further elucidates the grave disparity between the fate of living devadasis today and their contemporary counterparts in the popular Chennai music and dance scene who are upheld as bearers of Hindu dance and music culture. Unfinished Gestures calls attention...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 1961
...: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japa- sate for dearth of workers. Barter succumbed nese Buddhist Sculpture. By E. DALE to wages (in tobacco and rice), and the Ainu SAUNDERS. Bollingen Series LVIII. New succumbed to misery and starvation, for the York: Pantheon Books, i960, xxiii, 296. wages were both low...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (4): 409–413.
Published: 01 August 1947
...Tran-Duc-Thao Abstract Last March, the Inter-Asian Conference at New Delhi gave clear expression to the sympathy of Asia's peoples with Vietnam in its fight against colonial imperialism. And this was not just an empty gesture. The Hindu government has decided to place limits on the passage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 843–848.
Published: 01 November 1987
... already know something about Long Bow villagers and what they have been through but because the filmmakers have skillfully kept narration to a minimum, allowing village people themselves to do most of the communicating. In their words, their gestures, their laughter, and their eyes, we recognize again...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 27–50.
Published: 01 February 1999
... be projected. In this way, Akutagawa's suicide achieved the status of an eminently historical gesture. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 List of References Aeba Takao . 1976 . Kindai no kaitai . Tokyo : Kawade Shobō Shinsha . Aeba Takao . 1987 . “Kaisetsu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1251–1276.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Perspectives . London : Routledge . Ghosh Manomohan . 1957 . Nandikesvara's Abhinayadarpanam: A Manual of Gesture and Posture Used in Hindu Dance and Drama . Calcutta : K. L. Mukhopadhyay . Grimshaw Anna . 2001 . The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology . Cambridge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 530–531.
Published: 01 August 1961
... RICHARD K. BEARDSLEY the labor of Ainu men and women alike to pre- University of Michigan paring salt fish and other marine products; no other activity could be capitalized to compen- Mudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japa- sate for dearth of workers. Barter succumbed nese Buddhist Sculpture. By E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 532–533.
Published: 01 August 1961
..., respectively. This is followed by ter had he limited his treatment of the Indian some speculation on the origin of the gesture, a background to the barest sketch. locus classicus from one of the tantric scriptures In addition, there is a great deal of technical in the Chinese canon, citation of iconographic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 253–254.
Published: 01 February 2011
... as standing in for a “white America,” which, in turn, gestures toward “larger racist and classist exclusionary practices, including those of the university” (p. 66). The second section focuses on a single extended family, to consider how the tension surrounding contemporary ideas of the university is made...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1148–1149.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in the expanding field of Korean studies. It might have been helpful to treat in a more sustained manner the burgeoning historiographic sphere outside Korea, which, as Em acknowledges by citing Bruce Cumings's influence, speaks to the “domestic” peninsular schools of thought ( hakp'ung ). Em gestures toward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1163–1165.
Published: 01 November 2014
... authority of Christian rituals and texts for nationalist purposes concomitantly ratified the institutional authority of the church. Chapters 7 and 8 increase in analytical granularity, as Rutherford investigates the multiple roles and meanings of pronominal usage and gesture in videos created...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 947–967.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... Butler gave me my language—partly because Gender Trouble was so committed to tracing rigorously nuanced philosophical lineages. When I wrote my dissertation on the Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–49), Butler, as I gestured to earlier, worked for me in two ways. The first pertained to Miraji...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 647–648.
Published: 01 August 1957
... geste ” (the gesture). It has the meaning of the old English “gest,” or epic. BOOK REVIEWS 647 of its members from boards and councils when its demands were refused, resulted in a reversal of British policy and the holding of elections. Subsequent negotiations have led to a promise of complete self...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 253–254.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in the United States—particularly immigration rights for women to unite or form families—while international lobbyists were content with symbolic gestures that barely changed conditions. Moreover, repeal bills had to be framed narrowly to pass through a Congress that remained committed to sharply limiting Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 951–952.
Published: 01 November 1992
... the relationship between the soul which desires liberation, the divine reabsorption of the cosmos, and the detailed sequencing of ritual gestures from lowest evolutes to highest essence. Conversely, he shows the relationship between the soul which desires worldly enjoyment, the divine emission of the cosmos...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 573–576.
Published: 01 May 1994
... and the reader, and proceeds to discuss recent social change as a matter of national destiny. His analysis of the knowledge-value revolution is foregrounded by two solicitous gestures toward his reader: First, Sakaiya provokes his reader's worry about herself or himself as a business person, bureaucrat...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 274–275.
Published: 01 February 1958
... and describes the types of speeches and songs, the gestures and postures, costumes, make-up and stage properties associated with each of the traditional roles. Although the nature of the material and the thoroughness of coverage make this a less readable portion of the book, the contents nevertheless constitute...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 454–455.
Published: 01 May 1992
... aspect of reading film texts a problem that affects my own work in the area as it does Heider's the problem of coping with the possibility of diverse readings. Heider gestures toward this when he acknowledges that different regional audiences will read different meanings into a film. But it remains...