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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1101–1104.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sree Padma Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy . By Shinjini Das . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108420624 (cloth). Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 . By Rohan Deb...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 523–524.
Published: 01 May 2024
... “biodynamically devours and expels . . . memories of [World War II], these hauntings and traces of the colonial/imperial divide” (xi). As such, the ocean materializes itself as “that wild and enormous container of cultural memory” (xiv). An attunement to such nonhuman agency, albeit an understated one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of human-nonhuman relationships. Many of the contributors to this volume, edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer, adopt this perspective, offering insights on changes over several millennia in human beliefs and practices involving animals. If we understand “Chinese history” to mean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1093–1096.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of nonhuman animals? How are prevailing theories of ownership, property transfer, or land use complicated when we acknowledge the presence of nonhuman animals or the impact of human policies on other species? How are concepts such as “family” disturbed by the rise of pet culture, given that dogs and cats...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 724–725.
Published: 01 August 2021
... innovations, which may also be a source of consternation for some readers. Keck is committed to a renewal of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralist approach to anthropology. He seeks to situate the work of epidemic preparation in East Asia within a broad structural framework for analyzing human-nonhuman...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 407–413.
Published: 01 May 2021
... power and simplifications, to anarchism and self-organization, and to ecological transitions and human-nonhuman interactions. The fact that Scott is one of the most-cited theorists in the field of political ecology is further proof of his influence, with authors using Scottian themes to launch critical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 589–613.
Published: 01 August 2015
... discrimination, situational gait, and even behavioral and personality traits. The dog is also upheld as the representative of all nonhuman animals, undoubtedly because of its morphological and functional versatility but certainly also because it was the human's main interface and companion at the beginning...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 753–755.
Published: 01 November 2023
... generations are appreciated for their positive cultural consciousness of belonging. In the chapters on myths, rituals, and communal organization, Fiskesjö considers Wa perceptions of nonhuman domains. The Wa do not believe that the human world conquers “nature” by “socializing” it, they do not imagine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 212–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
... that Chakrabarty sees the Anthropocene highlighting relates to modernity's presumption of a separation between human culture and nonhuman nature. Joining scholars who have come to exemplify posthuman perspectives like Donna Haraway and the late Bruno Latour, he contends that this notion of separation elides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 399–405.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and ecological contexts. The complex and interwoven nature of social and ecological contexts in which actors operate not only imposes limits and threats on human and nonhuman actors but also allows them to operate in a certain manner. Therefore, it is crucial to grasp the wholeness of relations in the contexts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 172–173.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of interdisciplinary scholarship on the “nonhuman turn” that has emerged in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book-length study to examine the remaking of the White Snake legends in the contemporary world. In her first monograph, The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China , 1 Luo discussed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 754–756.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., this meticulously researched book addresses major issues of Japan's modern history in fascinating detail. Focusing on the role and representation of nonhuman animals in one of the most popular institutions of modern Japan lends a fresh, innovative, and very much-needed perspective to our understanding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 222–225.
Published: 01 February 2022
...” in Ishimure's work and her notion of “hometown” not so much as a physical location, but rather as a vision of a “world otherwise,” an enchanted “conglomerate of assemblages” that includes humans, nonhuman animals and plants, landscapes, and spirits (the comparison with Yi-Fu Tuan's work is apt, I think...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and are affected by the built environment. The book, animated by its desire “to regard urban nature as a dynamic, ever-continuing, social-biophysical process” (1), resists viewing nature and culture as binaries to explore new ways of examining human-nonhuman interactions at a time when the world is hurtling toward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 May 2021
... economy melds the imperative of subsistence with the nonhuman worlds of flora and fauna. Again shifting the frame, and writing through the lens of political ecology, Pamela McElwee claims Scott as a (somewhat) unrecognized titan of that field in his attention to how both material resources...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 101–105.
Published: 01 February 2022
... orders for nonhumans and humans to counter and gradually replace prevailing economic, social, and cultural norms; these cooperatives and groups have centered their movements on building a new culture around the principle of renewing life ( saengmyo˘ng )—that all living entities draw from the same living...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 May 2017
... holistic understanding of the human and nonhuman worlds, one in which the conventional epistemological divide between “science” and “society” is obliterated (Latour 2014 ). Given that the disciplinary orientations of the four papers in the collection remain clearly visible, the papers do...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the agencies of their environment. The first theme, symbiotic indigeneity , considers how indigenous communities throughout the region understand their lifeways and well-being as interconnected with those of other nonhuman beings residing throughout the landscape in the mountains, waterways, rocks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 926–928.
Published: 01 August 1994
... that these texts, which he accepts as prototypes of the elusive Huang-Lao school, exemplify what he calls "foundational naturalism": a view that ascribes absolute BOOK REVIEWS C H I N A AND INNER ASIA 927 regularity and value to the nonhuman cosmos and posits its regularities as the sole legitimate basis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the dual victimhood of people and the nonhuman. See also Minh Chuyen's nonfiction essay “Le Cao Dai and the Agent Orange Sufferers” ( [2005] 2010b ), which draws attention to the many American veterans who are victims of Agent Orange. 9 Ch'oe Sŭngja's “Rhapsody” even more acerbically ridicules...
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