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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1083–1105.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Yoko Hayami Abstract This paper analyzes multi-layered religious practices among local Buddhist Karen on the plains of Karen State in Burma, within the context of the larger socio-political dynamics of Burmese Buddhism. The purpose is threefold: first, to give ethnographic details of the hybrid...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 297–328.
Published: 01 February 1968
.... , “ Language Contact between Related Languages: Burmese Influences upon Plains Chin ,” Anthrop. Ling. , IV (April, 1962 ), 2 – 6 . 4 Tadaw Saw H. , “ The Karens of Burma ,” JBRS , XLII (Dec, 1959 ), 32 . 5 Bastian A. , Reisen in Birma in den Jahren 1861–1862...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 November 1962
...Theodore Stern Karen Linguistic Studies. Description, Comparison, and Texts . By Robert B. Jones, Jr. , University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 25 . Berkeley : U. of California Press , 1961 . xi , 283 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 February 1982
... of Hawaii Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Thai Frontier with Burma. Edited by CHARLES F. KEYES. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979- ix, 278 pp. References, Notes on Contributors, Index, Photographs. $19-50. A curious tension of ethnography is that its practitioners...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 230–231.
Published: 01 November 1970
...Robert B. Jones Proto-Karen: A Reanalysis . By Robbins Burling . Lahu and Proto-Lolo-Burmese. By James A. Matisoff. Edited by A. L. Becker . Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, The University of Michigan , 1969 . 221 pp. n.p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (4): 1150–1151.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Robert L. Brown The Karen Drums of Burma: Types, Icongraphy, Manufacture and Use . By Richard M. Cooler . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1995 . xx. 233 pp. $137.25 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1150 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Karen Drums of Burma...
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Published: 01 November 2011
Figure 1. Map of the area surrounding Mount Zwe Kabin in Karen State (with locations of Duwne pagodas at Dong Ying, Thammalone, and Klannou). More
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Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 9. Backdrop detail, painted by A. Ngarobi (Gesang) in Sokaraja, late 1950s, hanging in City Photo Studio, Yogyakarta. (Photo by Karen Strassler) More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Karen L. Thornber Abstract The term “Anthropocene,” coined in the 1980s by the ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and popularized at the turn of the twenty-first century by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, has been used increasingly in the past decade to highlight human activity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Karen Eggleston; Jean C. Oi; Scott Rozelle; Ang Sun; Andrew Walder; Xueguang Zhou Abstract China's 2010 census revealed a population of 1.34 billion, 50 percent urban, 13.3 percent above age sixty, and with 118.06 boys born for every 100 girls. In this article, we discuss how gender imbalance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 816–818.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Karen M. Gerhart Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu . By Christina Laffin . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . viii, 270 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Karen G. Ruffel Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries . By Anna Suvorova . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2004 . xii , 244 pp. $115.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 450 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 254–256.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Kären Wigen Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan . By Philip C. Brown . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2011 . xv, 268 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Property regimes, long...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1167–1169.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Kären Wigen The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson . By William E. Naff . Edited by J. Thomas Rimer . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2011 . 664 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Shimazaki Tōson (1872–1943...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1331–1333.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Karen Pechilis The focus of part I is miracles, though miracle stories permeate the book. It is admirable that the author seeks to present Aiya's central emphasis on the Goddess's miracles as a coherent and viable religious worldview. However, it is my view that Dempsey's discussion at times...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Karen S. Kingsbury Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature . By Jiwei Xiao . New York : Routledge , 2022 . xiv, 226 pp. ISBN: 9781032197852 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Readers who have been eagerly anticipating this volume will find much therein...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 749–775.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Karen L. Thornber Abstract This article analyzes interactions among the early twentieth-century Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese literary worlds. The author first develops a general conceptualization of intra–East Asian literary contact nebulae. These were the ambiguous spaces, both...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Karen Pechilis Pintchman rightly questions the necessity of viewing all of women's activities through the lens of “empowerment” in chapter 5, and her theoretical discussion is excellent (pp. 179–86). Less convincing is her turn toward the women's own gender-essentializing discourse in support...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 395–432.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Figure 9. Backdrop detail, painted by A. Ngarobi (Gesang) in Sokaraja, late 1950s, hanging in City Photo Studio, Yogyakarta. (Photo by Karen Strassler) ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Karen M. Gerhart The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e . By Sandy Kita . Honolulu .: University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . xii, 412 pp. $42.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 177 throughout his oeuvre...