...Elizabeth Bacon Polynesians: Explorers of the Pacific . By J. E. Weckler, Jr , (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, No. 6) Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1943 . iv, 77 p. Island peoples of the Western Pacific. Micronesia and Melanesia . By Herbert W. Krieger...

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...Josef Silverstein The Rice Industry in Malaya: 1920–1940 . By Ding Eing Tan Soo Hai . No. 2. 60 . A History of Port Swettenham . By Min Bin Jamaladdin . No. 3. 1963 . 35 . Fifty Years of the Anglican Church in Singapore Island, 1909–1959 . By Loh Keng Aun . No. 4. 1963...

...Robert Heine-Geldern Easter Island: A Stone-Age Civilization of the Pacific . By Alfred Métraux . Translated from the French by Michael Bullock . New York : Oxford University Press , 1957 . 219 . Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Ronald C. Miao Shore of Pearls. Hainan Island in Early Times . By Edward H. Schafer . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . ix, 114 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 433 inhuman...

...Julia Yonetani Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island . By Ruth Ann Keyso . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2000 . xv , 166 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 622 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Women...

...Lucian W. Pye Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands . Edited by Renato Rosaldo . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2003 . x , 228 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B...

..., cultural, and intellectual worlds outside Mazu. MARC BLECHER Oberlin College China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan. Edited by RONALD G. KNAPP. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, 1980. xv, 296 pp. Maps...

...David R. Sturtevant Sketches of the Island of Negros . By Robustiano Echauz . Translated by Donn V. Hart , with a historical introduction by John A. Larkin. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies Papers (Southeast Asia Series No. 50), 1978 . xxviii, 146 pp...

... Stenson. It provides excellent reading for all scholars interested in labor studies. AMARJIT KAUR University of New England Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia: Essays in Interpretation. Edited by D . M. ROSKIES. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993. ix, 321 pp. $25.00. The editor's introductory chapter...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island . By Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1998 . xiv, 314 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000...

...Norman G. Owen Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros . By Alan Berlow . New York : Pantheon Books , 1996 . xvi, 302 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 596 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES traditions...

...Kathleen M. Adams Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Island . By Paul Michael and Lorraine V. Aragon . Washington, D.C. : The Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution . 1991 . 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Harold Beyer Broch Minahasa Past and Present: Tradition and Transition in an Outer Island Region of Indonesia . Edited by Reimar Schefold . Leiden : Research School CNWS , 1995 . 128 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1082 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Susan Rodgers Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba . By Joel C. Kuipers . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...David Hicks The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island . By Patricia Spyer . Durham, NC. : Duke University Press , 2000 . xxiv, 354 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Katharine H. S. Moon Okinawa: Cold War Island . Edited by Chalmers Johnson . Cardiff, Calif. : Japan Policy Research Institute , 1999 . $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 556 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the nationalist vehemence...

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