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...William McCormack Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship . By Louis Dumont . (Occasional Papers of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 12.) London : Royal Anthropological Institute , 1957 . 45 . 14 figures. 10 s. $1.50. Une sous-caste de l'Inde du Sud...

...Brooke Schedneck The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma . By Ward Keeler . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780824865948 (cloth). Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism...

...Narendra Subramanian From Hierarchy to Ethnicity: The Politics of Caste in Twentieth-Century India . By Alexander Lee . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . xiv, 272 pp. ISBN: 9781108489904 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

...Donald A. Messerschmidt The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal: A Study of the Muluki Ain in 1854 . By András Höfer . Innsbruck : Universitätsverlag Wagner (Khumbu Himal: Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya, Band 13/2), 1979 . 215 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography...

... : Princeton University Press . Taylor Romeyn . 1976 . “ Ming T'ai-tsu and the Nobility of Merit .” Ming Studies 2 : 57 – 69 . Taylor Romeyn . 1977 . “ Ming T'ai-tsu and the Gods of Walls and Moats .” MingStudies 4 : 31 ' 50 . Taylor Romeyn . 1986 . “Hierarchies of Value in Chinese...

..., and understanding a population in the midst of dynamic transformation as it moves into the second decade of the twenty-first century. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy . By Xiaojian Zhao . New Brunswick, N.J...

...Ann Kumar Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature: The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness . By Donald E. Brown . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1988 . x , 384 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Hierarchy...

...S. O. Robson Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City . By James T. Siegel . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . viii , 338 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 684 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES fluence...

...David C. Schaberg Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals . By Newell Ann Van Auken . New York : Columbia University Press , 2023 . xxiv, 328 pp. ISBN: 9780231206501 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In this study, a model...

...Paul G. Hiebert Caste, Cult, and Hierarchy: Essays on the Culture of India . By Pauline Kolenda . Meerut : Folklore Institute , 1981 . viii, 350 pp. Rs. 125 (Distributed by Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, India.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK...

... that of the Hindus? 41 Further discussion of this and of the subject of n.40 will be found in Fruzzetti 1976. VOL. XXXV, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1976 Hierarchy Purified: Notes on Dumont and His Critics STEVE BARNETT LINA FRUZZETTI AKOS OSTOR The importance of Louis Dumont's work both...

...Pauline Kolenda Abstract I began the work of this paper by trying to specify the different kinds of “hierarchy” that Louis Dumont uses in Homo Hierarchicus . Such an inventory, I thought, might be helpful to those who find the book difficult to read. Unexpectedly, in the course of the exercise, I...

...McKim Marriott From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village . By D. B. Miller . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xviii, 229 pp. Tables, Maps, Diagrams, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Rs. 60; $9.75 Copyright ©...

...Dennis McGilvray The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India . By Lawrence A. Babb . New York : Columbia University Press , 1975 . xviii, 266 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 567 one can...

...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 ©...

...Byunghwan Son Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in Post-hierarchy South Korea . By Michael M. Prentice . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . xiii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781503631878 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Large companies in South Korea...

...Miho Matsugu An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel . By Ken K. Ito . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2008 . 328 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Imagine how...

...Steven Kemper Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual . By Lawrence A. Babb . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xii, 244 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper). Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society...

...Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands . By Susan McKinnon . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1991 . xvii, 324 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $16.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994...

...Bruce McCoy Owens Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and Its Hierarchy of Ritual . By David N. Gellner . Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambrige : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xxiii, 428 pp. $79.95. Copyright © The Association...