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.... This is a well-researched and carefully detailed work on an endangered indigenous foraging Raute community living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal. This work concentrates on a band of some one hundred and forty hunter-gatherers, who even these days subsist on langur and macaque monkeys (whom they call...

...Howard Spodek Wage Hunters and Gatherers: Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of Southern Gujarat . By Jan Breman . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xi, 422 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 488 THE JOURNAL...

...Eric I. Karchmer Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts . By Frédéric Keck . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2020 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781478006985 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 Avian Reservoirs...

... Willersev , Soul Hunters: Hunting. Animism and Personhood among the Siberian Yukahirs ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 2007 ) . In this book, Højer and Pedersen extend their research beyond the general social structural analyses of postsocialist transition studies. They develop...

...Janet Hunter Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan . Edited by Masanori Nakamura . Tokyo : United Nations University Press , 1994 . xiii, 213 pp. $33.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1274 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Janet Hunter An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830–1930 . By Giovanni Federico . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1997 . xv, 259 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 462 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES these are exclusively...

...Charles H. Hunter The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom. A Political History . By Merze Tate . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1965 . ix, 374 , Index, Sources, Appendices, Bibliographical Notes, Tables. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Janet Hunter Abstract Contemporary concerns about the difficulties faced by the Japanese economy following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 soon appeared to be unfounded as the economy recovered relatively quickly. This paper suggests that despite its limited impact on Japan's longer-term...

...., Anderson 1983; Gellner 1983; Hobsbawm 1990; Smith 1991). It is not unusual to find Japan cited as a prime example of this process, not only among theorists of nationalism, but among Japan specialists, as well (e.g., Beauchamp 1988, 226–29; Cummings 1980, 17–25; Hunter 1989, 192–97; Ienaga 1978; Pyle 1996...

...William R. Braisted Abstract After her disastrous defeat by Japan in the war 1894–95, China turned tardily to introduce such economic reforms as would facilitate her defense. She was pressed by concession hunters of many nationalities, who desired economic and political advantages which she...

... regions of the world. This has the consequence of making much South Asian scholarship insular and removed from ongoing discussions in the larger domains of social science. SUMIT GANGULY Hunter College of the City University of New York India: The Years of Indira Gandhi. Edited by Y. K. M A L I K and D . K...

... a single topic from many different angles, a perfect stimulant for critical thinking and classroom discussion alike. MANU BHAGAVAN City University of New York, Hunter College SOUTHEAST ASIA Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. By MICHAEL D. COE. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003. 240 pp. $39.95 (cloth...

... E. BULAG City University of New York, Hunter College Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire. By PAUL D. BUELL. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, no. 8. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003. xliv, 335 pp. $80.00 (cloth). This is a major work of reference...

... placed in considerable doubt. SUMIT GANGULY Hunter College, City University of New York Dalit Panther Movement in Maharashtra: A Sociological Appraisal. By LATA MURUGKAR. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991. xii, 264 pp. Rs. 250.00. There has long been a need in the literature on untouchability for a study...

... or (800) 235-3339- W. SCOTT MORTON Hunter College, City University of New York The Japanese Version. Produced and directed by L o u i s ALVAREZ and A N D R E W KOLKER. Center for New American Media, New York, N.Y. VHS and 3/4" format. 55 minutes. In its publicity statement, the video The Japanese Version...

... snapshots. Finally, perhaps the most irritating feature of this work is the poor quality of editing. For example, in several places proper names are misspelled and nonstandard abbreviations are used. SUMIT GANGULY Hunter College, City University of New York. ...

... political. Both of these studies breathe a rarified atmosphere, which removes them from the central problem of what inhibits the kind of economic development necessary to permit the masses of Asian people to escape dire poverty. PETER F. BELL Hunter College (CUNY) and Yale University Travel Accounts...

... work. ULKU BATES Hunter College, City University of New Yor\ On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES R. BRANDON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. xvi, 407 pp. Appendices, Note on Sources, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Despite...