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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (4): 722–724.
Published: 01 August 1974
...Doranne Jacobson I Give Thee My Daughter: A Study of Marriage and Hierarchy among the Anavil Brahmans of South Gujarat . By Klaas W. van der Veen . Assen, Netherlands : Van Gorcum & Company N.V. , 1972 . 297 pp. Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, dfl. 47.50. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 677–678.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Timothy D. Amos Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan . By Maren A. Ehlers . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018 . xiv, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674983878 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 339–360.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Douglas E. Haynes Abstracts During the nineteenth century, South Asian businessmen began to engage in modern forms of philanthropy. Focusing on the western Indian city of Surat, this essay explores the emergence of philanthropic activity within the larger “portfolios” of gift giving held...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1172–1174.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Yili Wu Giving Care, Writing Self: A “New” Ethnography . By Joseph Schneider and Wang Laihua . New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. , 2000 . 352 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1172 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Tsuneo Akaha The Manner of Giving: Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy . By Dennis T. Yasutomo . Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books , 1986 . Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, xii , 147 pp. $22.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 599–601.
Published: 01 May 1980
...Conrad Totman Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 . By Noel Perrin . Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher , 1979 . xii, 122 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Illustrations. $8.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 599...
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in Lady Qu's Inscriptions: Literacy and Sovereignty in a Native Domain, Southwest China
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Published: 01 February 2021
Figure 3. A page from a Nasu genealogical text. This unique text gives the names of the wives and daughters of the Luɦo chieftains and their natal lineages or the lineages into which they married (Yang 2010 ).
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 403–425.
Published: 01 May 2010
... have been adopted by Rmeet (Lamet) uplanders in northern Laos, where the main type of hierarchy is the decentralized superiority of wife-givers over wife-takers. In the process of adoption, title-giving was subordinated to wife-giving, and today the wife-givers are the ritual source of ranks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 327–345.
Published: 01 February 1970
... clique of princes and dignitaries, who influenced Ch'ing policy in these years, on Perovskii's mission to China and on the mutual present giving after the conclusion of the Sino-Russian treaties. The Soviet document collection Vneshnaia politika Rossii v XIX i nachale XX veka gives new facts about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Robert W. Hefner Abstract In the first years of the postcolonial era, students of politics in the new nation- states often assumed that “primordial” ties of kinship, language, ethnicity, and religion would gradually give way to a more encompassing sense of national political community...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (4): 341–366.
Published: 01 August 1945
...Sidney D. Gamble Abstract Four hundred farm families were studied in 1927 by the Social Survey Department of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement in an effort to secure figures that would give a picture of the economic life and activities of the farm families of Tinghsien...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 148–152.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Constance A. Cook Abstract In the history of chinese religions the Ch'un-ch'iu or Spring and Autumn period (eighth to fifth centuries B.C.E.) was a time of transition between the court rituals of the Western Chou gift-giving society and the private or local cult practices evident in the later...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 379–396.
Published: 01 May 1998
... is the largest civic organization in Taiwan, claiming 4 million members worldwide in 1994, and nearly 20 percent of Taiwan's population. It gives away well over US $20 million in chanty each year, runs a state-of-the-art hospital, and has branches in fourteen countries. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1031–1047.
Published: 01 November 2010
... vitalization. Many analysts have emphasized the influence of postcolonial secularisms, neoliberal disciplines, and ascendant civil societies in the religious resurgence. Although these factors have indeed played a role, the macro-narratives of the state, capital, and democratization often give insufficient...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (4): 1047–1078.
Published: 01 November 1995
... and Weber, analyze culture into publicly accessible forms and the interpretations different actors give those forms. Despite recent criticisms by political economists as well as postmodernists, this approach continues to guide much of the current research by anthropologists working in Southeast Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 81–93.
Published: 01 February 1996
... on a page, the actual events of reading, interpretation, and commentary are what give a poem a vital historical life. We are fortunate that over a millennium and a half of Sanskrit scholarship has yielded up to us actual records of historical moments of reading. And, since these recorded “moments” have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... To be sure, more-hidden body parts may lurk below the surface that signal our membership in certain social categories—gender, to give a prime example. In practical terms, however, when we see strangers walking toward us from a distance, we are in the habit of assuming they are a man or a woman not because we...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 5–20.
Published: 01 June 1964
... behavior no less than with its hopes and beliefs. These papers are not intended to give a systematic coverage of the two religions; each is rather a systematic analysis of a certain part of the religion as practiced. The emphasis is on structure and process more than on description and content. The gods...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 November 1964
... of all else, and we are forced in our teaching to attempt a broad coverage of both the humanities and the social disciplines, to give our students a reasonably broad academic education oriented around China. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Comments on the 'Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 941–962.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Historically, few men or women had doubts about the real struggle involved in making a living from Nature. In a lecture given in 1877, William Morris explained that “the race of man must either labour or perish. Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree” (W...
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