...Robert L. Winzeler Voices from the Rainforest: Testimonies of a Threatened People . By Bruno Manser . Translated by Anthony Dixon and Johanna Veth . Kuala Lumpur : Bruno Manser Foundation and INSAN , 1996 . viii, 294 pp. $20.00. Power Play: Why the Bakun Hydroelectric Project...

... impersonator in various regional theater traditions, while the second considers his/her vexed counterpart: the actress. Scholarship of the past decade has argued that even while female impersonators played a significant role as arbiters of notions of femininity and fashion, such articulations were not without...

... that they are known, seen, witnessed, and always “conspicuously visible” in all that they do (100–104). Shadow Play gives us the interpretive structure to understand how such interactions foster and limit the ability of people to fight for their right to the city. The book is very much a case study...

...Margaret Sarkissian Malaysian Shadow Play and Music: Continuity of an Oral Tradition . By Patricia Matusky . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xiv, 149 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 258 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Thomas Rimer A Play of Mirrors . By Ōoka Makoto and Thomas Fitzsimmons . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . 308 pp. $28.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). A Thousand Steps … and More . By Yoshimasu Gōzō . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . 178 pp. $14.95...

...Herman Ooms Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society . By Nam-Lin Hur . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2000 . xii, 302 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1191 uses...

...Mark P. Whitaker Finally, though, Trawick's conversations with both the LTTE cadres and Tamil civilians prove allusively complex. Batticaloa people tease Trawick, as they do each other, with a kind of play talk that Trawick calls “ sūmma narratives.” Doing something sūmma, as Trawick points...

...Jane Richardson Hanks Children's Play and Games in Rural Thailand: A Study in Acculturation and Socialization . By Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson . Bangkok : Chulalongkorn University, Social Research Institute , 1980 . 395 pp. Index, Bibliography, Maps, Figures, Plates. N.p. Copyright ©...

...Jeffrey E. Hanes The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure . By David Leheny . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2003 . xiv , 188 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 194 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N...

...Lawrence A. Babb The Play of the Gods: Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town . By Akos Östör . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1980 . x, 218 pp. Notes, Glossary, References, Index. $27 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Alan Entwistle At Play with Krishna: Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindavan . by John Stratton Hawley . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1981 . xvi , 274 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $27.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 434...

...Sujane Wu Games Poets Play: Readings in Medieval Chinese Poetry . By Anne Birrell . Cambridge, UK : McGuinness China Monographs , 2004 . viii , 449 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 More than two decades ago, Anne Birrell made...

...Donald K. Emmerson The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow-Play . By P. L. Amin Sweeney . Kuala Lumpur : The National University of Malaysia Press , 1972 . xiii, 464 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Glossary, Works Cited, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Mahadev L. Apte Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India . By Kathryn Hansen . Berkeley : University of Calfornia Press , 1992 . xvii, 367 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 185 The colonial state took...

...Robert A. Hueckstedt Poétique du théâtre indien: Lectures du Nāṭyaśāstra . By Lyne Bansat-Boudon . Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. 169. Paris : École française d'Extrême-Orient , 1992 . 521 pp. £42.72 (paper). Sanskrit Play Production in Ancient India...

...Benedict R. O'G. Anderson The Struggle of the Naga Tribe: A Play . By W. S. Rendra . Translated and introduced by Max Lane . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1980 . xli , 101 pp. Translator's Preface and Introduction, Appendixes. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...