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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 909–910.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Loretta E. Kim Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire . By Matthew W. King . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . xiv, 281 pp. ISBN: 9780231191067 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 In Ocean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 663–681.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sachi Schmidt-Hori Abstract This essay proposes that “milk kinship,” which upper-class individuals in premodern Japan formed with their milk kin— a menoto (wet nurse) and a menotogo (foster sibling)—occupies the core of an institutionalized erotic fosterage. In this “ menoto system,” the surrogate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 797–798.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of developments on either side of the Pacific. Robert Hellyer begins Green with Milk and Sugar with a challenge to presentist views of American and Japanese tea cultures. Contrary to national habits in recent decades, he writes, Americans once drank more green tea than black; while sencha , the variety...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1045–1054.
Published: 01 November 2009
... people to celebrate by eating kiribath (milk rice) and launching (peaceful) rockets, as fireworks are commonly called. People waved the Lion Flag and compared the president to the famous second-century bce Sinhalese hero Dutugemunu, another son of the Ruhuna (Southern Sri Lanka) who succeeded...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1001–1004.
Published: 01 November 2014
... behavior of bankers that her colleagues did not, that she was educated not as an economist, but as a social anthropologist. In the course of earning her PhD in social anthropology, Tett spent a year milking goats in Tajikistan, an experience she insists helped her to understand the behavior of the bankers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1344.
Published: 01 November 1994
... milk, Severin and his crew visit the Festival of the First Mare's Milk. Buddhist lamas now preside over the first mares' milking and bless the milk on behalf of the local agricultural collective. Mongolian Buddhism, or "Lamaism," is enjoying a vigorous renewal, although Severin's discussion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Women's Association (SEWA) which offers 3 to 10 thousand members a variety of services, such as collective bargaining, legal aid, skills and literacy training, technical assistance and supplies, and credit and savings in its own cooperative bank. The milk producers of Kaira, subsistence farmers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1343–1344.
Published: 01 November 1994
... shot arrows, soldiers dressed up as Genghis Khan's cavalry, and a four-year-old bareback rider won a horse race. Recalling William of Rubruck's description of the preparation of fermented mare's milk, Severin and his crew visit the Festival of the First Mare's Milk. Buddhist lamas now preside over...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 902–904.
Published: 01 August 1995
... practices as well as quantity and nutritional properties of the breast milk were also the subject of investigations. The most significant finding of the studies seems to be that child malnutrition begins before birth: "It is very likely that early growth faltering is partly or exclusively attributable...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 151–197.
Published: 01 June 1964
... vegetables as a gift to his patron. Cow's milk is ritually pure and cannot be defiled. In theory, a Brahmin can accept a cup of milk from an Untouchable; but Brahmins to whom I posed this problem replied that should the occasion ever arise, they would refuse for fear that the milk had been diluted with water...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 898–900.
Published: 01 August 1969
..., as compared to 35 pages on West Africa and the Sudan. One must infer that Whyte is looking for natural grasslands in the low-latitude climatic zones characterized by seasonal rain. The implicit purpose of Whyte's first book seems to be improvement of the fodder supply for milk- and/or meat-producing animals...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 559–561.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and revealing contrast, offering a cultural perspective on the articulation of gender, intimacy, and sexuality in the context of the premodern Japanese state. The focus of her article is the institution of milk kinship. Building on, but extending beyond, the role of the wet nurse within the structure of family...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 904–906.
Published: 01 August 1995
... this to seasonal fluctuations in food availability (with lactating women in particular not being able to increase their food consumption) as well as the nature of the diet, which is "bulky" and "low energy." A marginal diet allows women to produce adequate quantities of breast milk, but apparently the fat content...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 705–729.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of pesticides, calling the former nongyao canliu (pesticide residuals) and the latter youdu shipin (toxic foods). The last type of poisonous food is a challenge to the imagination—it is simply fake or counterfeit food, such as the 2004 case of fake milk powder made out of starch in Anhui province...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 115–150.
Published: 01 June 1964
... Monaragala in the Wellassa province. 2. Bali Ceremony in Ma\ulle Village An extremely elaborate structure (maduva) has been erected with plantain trunks and decorated with the usual objects used in many of the rituals of the Sinhalese. This bali is referred to as a \iri maduva (milk hut; milk signifying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1020–1022.
Published: 01 November 2000
... started in the 1960s to mobilize urban voters by providing its members with inexpensive vegetables, safe milk, and natural soap. Thus, its membership is made up almost entirely of urban housewives in metropolitan Tokyo and Yokohama. The co-op business provides a financial base for SC to support NET's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 527–543.
Published: 01 May 1986
... doomed missions to test their devotion. Carrying dirt, then flowers, and finally a pot of honey-milk, the gods are sent out chanting Siva's names as they march up to the ramparts of the Triple City, in a direct challenge to the demons, and each time, when the demons hear the gods' procession, they act...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1076–1079.
Published: 01 August 1975
... with milk which will be offered to major part of the musical style. Indeed, the the Murugan image in Batuk Cave temple. extensive comparison of the two styles on the Also prepared are the commonly used imple- basis of "meaningless syllables" would indi- ments that accompany the kavati-carrying cate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 7–35.
Published: 01 February 1987
... . Stone Lawrence . 1977 . The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 . New York : Harper and Row . Sussman George . 1982 . Selling Mother's Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France 1715–1914 . Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press . Topley Marjorie . 1970 . “ Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 427–434.
Published: 01 August 1961
... is born into another existence, therefore is one not freed from one's evil deeds." Still puzzled, King Milinda asked for an illustration, and Nagasena gave him several, including the following: "Your majesty, it is as if a man were to buy from a cowherd a pot of milk, and were to leave it with the cowherd...
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