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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 215.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Hans-Dieter Evers Rethinking the Substantive Economy in Southeast Asia: On the Margins between Utilities and Meaning . By Takashi Tomosugi . Tokyo : Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo . 1991 . xvii, 258 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 August 1991
...David Strand The Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre . By Michael S. Duke . Layton, Utah : Peregrine Smith Books , 1990 . x, 160 pp. $7.95 (paper). China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen . By Lee Feigon . Chicago : Ivan R. Dee...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 766–767.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Herman van Olphen Making Meaning of Indian Cinema . Edited by Ravi S. Vasudevan . New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 317 pp. $12.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 766 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Overall, this volume reiterates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 387–409.
Published: 01 May 2016
... that if migration largely means “the movement of people, their goods and their ideas,” migrancy is “a state that grows out of and develops both as consequence of and as part of that movement.… [M]igrancy directs the observer's attention not just to where migrants have gone and where migrants have been but, perhaps...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 422–423.
Published: 01 February 1968
...Eliot Deutsch Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning . By Frederick J. Streng . Nashville : Abingdon Press , 1967 . 252 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 422 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES riod from 1876 to 1907...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 625–627.
Published: 01 May 1981
...J. Bruce Long The Many Faces of Murukaṉ: The History and Meaning of A South Indian God . By Fred W. Clothey . With the poem “Prayers to Lord Murukaṉ” by A. K. Ramanujan. The Hague : Mouton Publishers (Religion and Society No. 6), 1978 . vxi , 252 pp. Notes, References, Index. DM76...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 949–950.
Published: 01 August 1970
...Karl H. Potter Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning . By Gerald James Larson . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1969 . xii, 312 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 949...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 533–535.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Pashaura Singh Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning, and Identity . By Doris R. Jakobsh . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xii, 296 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 946–947.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Thomas B. Gold Searching for Life's Meaning: Changes and Tensions in the Worldviews of Chinese Youth in the 1980s . By Luo Xu . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2002 . xi, 359 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 946...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 885–887.
Published: 01 August 1995
... works as a meaning system for participants and performers alike. In other words, she answers the fundamental question she raised at the beginning: "how does Qawwali musical sound become meaningful outside itself?" (p. 5). This work is a genuine tour de force: it is lucid, thorough, and compelling...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 551–553.
Published: 01 May 1995
...David P. Shea Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language . Edited by Jane M. Bachnik and Charles J. Quinn Jr . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1994 . xix, 309 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 February 1996
... on the meaning of being Chinese taking place in Hong Kong and Taiwan. These are, after all, branches of the "living tree" that are currently undergoing complex, challenging, and meaningful changes. LIANG HONGMING Washington University, St. Louis Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1943-1992: Uncertain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Ronald Provencher In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History . By Lorraine M. Gesick . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1995 . 98 pp. $12.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 81–93.
Published: 01 February 1996
... scholars begin to take the art and artifice of the Sanskrit literary commentary more seriously as a means to chart trends in South Asian intellectual and aesthetic history, our general view of developments in South Asian literature will be far more meaningful, nuanced, and complete. List of References...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 793–795.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Gene Ammarell The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village . By Michael Southon . Canberra : Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University , 1995 . xiv, 159 pp. Au$25.00. Copyright...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 988–989.
Published: 01 November 1991
...James J. Fox Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm . By Shelly Errington . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . 1989 . xvi, 322 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 988 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES received by the population...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 556–557.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Andrew Bernstein Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku . By Ian Reader . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . xiv , 350 pp. $29.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Once again, Ian Reader has written a work...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 445–447.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Steve Rabson Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics ofKitasono Katue (1902—1978) . Harvard East Asian Monographs 178. By John Solt . Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 1999 . xiv, 395 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 250–251.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Carol Radcliffe Bolon Many Heads, Arms and Eyes: Origin, Meaning and Form of Multiplicity in Indian Art . By Doris Meth Srinivasan . Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, volume xx. Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1997 . 355 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 276–277.
Published: 01 February 2008
... by literary and sociological theories distinct from the approaches employed in most social scientific work on Taiwan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Legitimacy, Meaning and Knowledge in the Making of Taiwanese Identity . By Mark Harrison . New York : Palgrave...