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Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 8. The Double Pigeon Chinese Typewriter (Author's Collection). More
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Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 3. Domon Ken, Hato no machi (Pigeon Town), Machi no. 3, Camera , December 1949 . More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Muhammad A. Kavesh Abstract Despite the invention and sophistication of drones and unarmed aerial vehicles, satellites, and more recently, cyber espionage, “spy pigeons” remain a serious threat at the India-Pakistan border. The entanglement between flying pigeons for “sport” and capturing pigeons...
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Published: 01 May 2023
Map 1. Locations of captured spy pigeons along the India-Pakistan border since 2010. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 121–123.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and interpret histories of practice in East and South Asia. Based on extended field research in Pakistan, M uhammed A. K avesh provides a critical analysis of the perceived threat that so-called “spy pigeons” pose to geopolitical stability, national security, and cultural understandings along a contested...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 715–716.
Published: 01 May 1983
... into a processual mold puts the cat among the pigeons, but in this case the pigeons fly off with the honors. This kind of quickly produced, paperbound volume is useful in making accessible the results of recent ethnographic fieldwork and in raising issues that test current theoretical constructs. MONNI ADAMS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 713–715.
Published: 01 May 1983
... of the house emerges as a cosmic scenario for chiefship, why should this symbolic system apply to any other sphere? Having Bruner attempt to force these rule-oriented papers into a processual mold puts the cat among the pigeons, but in this case the pigeons fly off with the honors. This kind of quickly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 574–575.
Published: 01 May 1978
... CHANDRA seems to have followed Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Duggirala Gopalakrishnayya, edi- BOOK REVIEWS 575 tors and translators of The Mirror of Gesture: ror has changed "a she-pigeon's neck" (s'lokas Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikesvara 85-86) to "a male-pigeon's neck" (ka- (Harvard Univ. Press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 575–577.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of The Mirror of Gesture: ror has changed "a she-pigeon's neck" (s'lokas Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikesvara 85-86) to "a male-pigeon's neck" (ka- (Harvard Univ. Press, 1917; 2nd ed., E. Weyhe, potikantha). In two cases (slokas 201 and 211), 1936) a work Ghosh seems rather ambivalent Ghosh has treated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 725–753.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Figure 8. The Double Pigeon Chinese Typewriter (Author's Collection). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 261–262.
Published: 01 February 1958
... by the major ideological schools which contended for the mind of China after his death: Kuomintang nationalists apotheosize him as a veritable sage, while Chinese Communist historians usually relegate him to the pigeon-hole labeled "nationalist-bourgeois-democratic." (In a recent essay the veteran...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 November 1972
... into the standard systematic pigeon holes, the author then proceeds in an even longer descriptive chapter to describe what he perceives as the geographical regions of Chinese and of Central Asian culture. While his choice of regionalization criteria do not necessarily conform to those of other scholars...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 864–865.
Published: 01 May 1975
... in nonliterate societies. The ideal social typologies, kinship groupings and categories, and the "pigeon-holing" attempts for studying social structure simply do not work. With the absence of' traditional means of interpretation, anthropologists have resorted to using another set of concepts, those which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 February 1973
.... *r)io : TB "rjya; 'to boil' Ch. *tio : TB *tsyow; 'foot' Ch. *srio : TB *kray; 'son-in-law' Ch. *sio : TB krway (2) 'pigeon, turtledove' Ch. *kiog : TB *ku(w); 'animal' Ch. *sjog : TB sa; 'to laugh' Ch. (in Chuang-tzu) *zi&g : TB rya-t (3) 'nipple, milk, suckle, breast' Ch. *niu : TB *nsw; 'to count...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 716–717.
Published: 01 May 1971
... into the actual circumstances about Ghalib's pension, one is rather surprised to see mention made of pigeons and piles. The book assumes its importance for being the first study of Ghalib in a major Western language, but it does not entirely rule out the possibility and need of a further more conclusive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 675–679.
Published: 01 August 2009
... colony as opposed to a protectorate. Her aim is to explicate the meaning of the works of a single, complex, and hard-to-pigeon-hole author, who has been characterized by some as a realist and by others as a modernist and was, Park claims, “one of the most accomplished leftist writers in Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 384–386.
Published: 01 February 1986
... vision underlay his reformist thought and action. However, she is careful to stress Wei's eclecticism, noting that he cannot be "neatly pigeon-holed into the New Text School" (p. 17). Indeed, as Benjamin Elman has recently pointed out in his seminal study of Qing scholarship, New Text studies did...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 November 1960
... of an ideology or interest, but as one who should passionately care how people solve the problem of reconciling conflicting interests. He does not find the answer to this problem in a system of classification which will tell him what is the right pigeon hole for Iraq, or whether Turkey is more "competitive...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 93–96.
Published: 01 November 1949
..., monkey, elephant, snake, tortoise, frog, worm, ant, flea, fly, bee, wild duck, chicken, hen, cock, pigeon, fish, whale, shark, goldfish a total of thirty-nine terms. These might all be useful at one time or another, but some of them certainly belong to a vocabulary of 30,000 words rather than...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 November 1949
..., rabbit, hare, fox, wolf, stag, leopard, tiger, lion, monkey, elephant, snake, tortoise, frog, worm, ant, flea, fly, bee, wild duck, chicken, hen, cock, pigeon, fish, whale, shark, goldfish a total of thirty-nine terms. These might all be useful at one time or another, but some of them certainly belong...