...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire . By Maria Platt . London : Routledge , 2017 . xii, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780415662611 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Maria...

...Allen D. Grimshaw The Anglo Indians: A Study in the Problems and Processes Involved in Emotional and Cultural Integration . By V. R. Gaikwad . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . xvii , 300 pp. Tables, Appendices, Index. $6.50. Marriage among the Anglo-Indians . By Shiva...

...William Harman From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture . Edited by Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xiii, 250 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

.... It contains on almost every page a powerful indictment of the Japanese government and the men who created prewar Japanese society. It is deliberately partisan, and in places it gives direct testimony of injustice that blazes like a conscience on fire. ROBERT J. SMITH Cornell University Marriage in Changing...

...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 ©...

...David C. Buxbaum Marriage Law and Policy in the Chinese People's Republic . By M. J. Meijer . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1971 . viii, 369 pp. Notes, Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $16.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK...

...Leighton W. Hazlehurst Marriage and Family in India . By K. M. Kapadia . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1966 . Third Edition , xxx, 395 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 733...

...Ralph Pieris Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship, and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon . By Nur Yalman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1967 . xi , 406 pp. Tables, Maps, Figures, Glossary...

...Pauline M. Kolenda Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Marriage and Kinship among the Indians of Surinam . By J. D. Speckmann . New York : Humanities Press , 1966 . 302 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Maps, Photographs, References Cited, Appendix, Index. $11.00. 670...

...Elizabeth LaCouture Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China . By Lisa Tran . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2015 . viii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781442245891 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... of its broad coverage and its varied sources of data, this collection comprises a veritable goldmine of vital information. It represents a solid and important contribution to scholarship on contemporary China and on marriage and the family generally. A number of the authors, including in particular...

...Tuen Yi Chiu Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China . By Chigusa Yamaura . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . 203 pp. ISBN: 9781501750144 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Beverly Bossler Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang . By Bettine Birge . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . vii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780674975514 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

...Chigusa Yamaura Abstract This essay examines Japanese-Chinese arranged cross-border marriages and investigates the ways in which participants legitimate and render such marriages comprehensible in light of national and local histories. Marriageability in this context is produced not through...

... the source language with a great deal more than the simple translation of the content. It is a nice example of art in translation. Yale University ISIDORE DYEN Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore. By MAURICE FREEDMAN. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1957. Colonial Research Studies No. 20. 249...

... . vi, 460 . Appendix, Index. 24 figures, 38 plates. 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. 486 JOURNAL...

...Erica Vogel Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea . By Caren Freeman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2011 . xiv, 263 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 In Making...

...Chuan-Kang Shih Abstract Marriage has been widely accepted as a universal institution that allows a kinship system to establish and perpetuate itself (Levi-Strauss 1963). Although the well-known case of the Nayar in Central Kerala of India has seriously problematized the anthropological definitions...

...Beverly Bossler The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period . By Patricia Buckley Ebrey . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , 1993 . xviii, 332 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Pauline Kolenda Family, Kinship and Marriage in India . Edited by Patricia Uberoi . Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . x, 502 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 980...