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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1333–1334.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Ann P. McCauley Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide . By Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 264 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., but resembles a ghost that haunts and possesses temporarily the body of the translated text, and thence onward to the next literary performance. The clearest example of this possession is in “parody,” which both critiques and renews the parodied text in its very structure; it ensures some continued existence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 464–468.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Eliza F. Kent Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . By Kristin C. Bloomer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xv, 325 pp. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India . By David Mosse...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 251–253.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Sally Ann Ness Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines . By José S. Buenconsejo . New York : Routledge , 2002 . xix , 424 pp. $100.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W...
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Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays
Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1143–1145.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Joseph Parker Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays . By Etsuko Terasaki . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 38. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xvii , 329 pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 866–867.
Published: 01 August 1998
... the relationship between the Japanese and nature. KENDALL H. BROWN University of Southern California A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in the The Tale of Genji. By D O R I S G. B A R G E N . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. xx, 379 pp. $24.95 (paper). Spirit possession episodes make up some...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Sherry B. Ortner Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas . Edited by John T. Hitchcock and Rex L. Jones . Warminster, England : Aris and Phillips , 1976 . xxviii, 401 pp. Map, Bibliography, Illustrations, Notes on Contributors. £10.00; $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 273–274.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Cecilia Van Hollen Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern . By Kalpana Ram . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xiii, 317 pp. $57.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 Kalpana Ram's book Fertile...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1055–1057.
Published: 01 November 2000
...JaHyun Kim Haboush My Very Last Possession and Other Stories . By Pak Wansŏ . Translated by Chun Kyung-Ja et al. Armonk, NY : M. E. Sharpe , 1999 . xiii, 220 pp. $45 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 1055...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 May 1967
... Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867 . By Charles Burton Buckley . Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1965 . xii, 790 , xii pp. Index. $10.15. BOOK REVIEWS 531 gists to an understanding of Buddhism in Southeast Asia. As such it presumably reflects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (4): 793.
Published: 01 August 1966
...Gordon P. Means Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India . By John Cameron . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1965 . xii, 408 . Appendices, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 793 as was once thought, obstinately opposed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 May 1977
... is that, in India, kings—however powerful politically—did not formally possess religious or ritual authority; whereas in Indochina, however weak they were, kings formally possessed religious as well as political prerogatives. This is the contention cited above. The second is that, the first being true, it is also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 101–125.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Richard Burghart Abstract At the turn of the nineteenth century three different indigenous concepts were central to the Nepalese understanding of their polity. These were the possessions ( muluk ) of the king, the realm ( deśa ), and the countries (also deśa or des ) of a people. Each...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 649–664.
Published: 01 August 1967
... of socialist realism in literature. Western literary critics have maintained that while the appreciable part of literature produced during the last thirty-five years “possesses artistic qualities of high worth” in its postwar development Soviet literature in general has simply become a “perfect propaganda...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 August 1968
..., the muttettu , which were cultivated gratis by the villagers who possessed other fields either in return for this service or in recognition of the king's suzreignty. This meant that there were no intermediaries farming (renting) the right to collect the tithe. It also meant that the villager held his paddy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 591–594.
Published: 01 August 1964
... distinct. Santayana said that to learn another language is to acquire another soul; we might add that in the case of Chinese there is less certainty about which is the possessor and which the possessed. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Note: Reflections on Chinese Language...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 437–456.
Published: 01 May 2017
... agreement reached in July 2015 between Iran, the European Union, and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council will be a step toward eliminating nuclear weapons throughout Asia and the rest of the world. As we will discuss below, any country possessing a nuclear arsenal is on a path...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (4): 489–503.
Published: 01 August 1955
..., and landmen dependent on agriculture with the same habit and ways of thinking drilled into them through forty centuries.” In a recent work we find this statement: “Essentially a land people, the Chinese cannot be considered as having possessed seapower…. The attention of the Chinese through the centuries has...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 February 1952
..., and a book by Haruyama. Since the last, published in 1947, has not been long in my possession, I have not attempted so far to read more than the author's final chapter of “conclusions,” and to check his identifications of the controversial subjects of the Kondō panels. The book has been praised by Sawa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 433–449.
Published: 01 August 1963
... and leadership necessary to organize their work efficiently. Gotō also had the initiative and ability to make the right strategy move or policy decision when the occasion demanded. He possessed a unique talent for discerning which elements in the traditional society could be used to strengthen modern...
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