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... contribution and will be of interest to scholars concerned with capitalist development and labor in Asia and the Pacific. DIANE L. W O L F University of Washington Folk Pottery in South-East Asia. By D A W N F. ROONEY. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987. xii, 73 pp. $15.95. This volume is intended...

...Pamela Bowren Vandiver Jomon of Japan: The World's Oldest Pottery . By Douglas Moore Kendrick . New York : Columbia University Press , 1995 . 144 pp. $110.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 210 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Jomon of Japan...

...Thomas T. Allsen The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figures from Han to Tang and Their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes . By Elfriede Regina Knauer . Zürich : Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie , 1998 . Copyright © The Association...

... of the council, prepared at the direction of the chairman. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE POTTERY OF THE PALAU ISLANDS Although the various types of Palauan pottery and its manufacture by the coil method have been described,1 the rim types have received little attention. This is regrettable, since it may be possible...

...Millard Rogers Ch'êng-tzŭ-yai: The Black Pottery Culture Site at Lung-shan-chên in Li-ch'êng-hsien, Shantung Province . Ed. Li Chi , Liang Ssŭ-yung , Tung Tso-pin , Fu Ssŭ-nien , Wu Chin-ting , Kuo Pao-chün , and Liu Yü-hsia . Tr. Kenneth Stark. Yale University Publications...

...Tingsen S. Wei Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 The Jomon Pottery of Japan . By J. Edward Kidder, Jr . Artibus Asiae Supplement XVII. Ascona, Switzerland : Artibus Asiae , 1957 . xvi, 200. Maps, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $12.75. 53.5 Swiss frs...

... of development professionals and critics, then in hybridizations constructed by local people to protect and to improve themselves (218–19). This paper is about such hybridized alternatives as they have developed over the past century among a group of pottery makers in rural Sri Lanka. These are not, however...

... and scientific data pouring out of China since 1949. A preliminary integration of such multifarious new data with rich archaic Chinese literary records has enabled me to reach the conclusion that the trait-complex of each of the major Chinese cultural elements—field agriculture, animal husbandry, pottery...

..., found in Korean sites. These are black pottery, red pottery, semi-lunar knives, and (possibly) painted pottery. All these items are found in the Pi-tzu-wo and Tan-to-tzu sites in the Liaoning area. Although these sites are regarded as the northern peripheral area for Lungshan culture, the artifacts from...

... Monash University Shigaraki: Potter's Valley. By LOUISE ALLISON CORT. New York: Kodansha International, 1980. 423 pp. Illustrations, Index, Bibliography. $60. Shigaraki is a cluster of pottery villages near Kyoto. Here pottery making has been carried on since at least A.D. 1300. The products of the kilns...

... to 9,000 years ago the sea coast was too far away for shells to be carried back to the caves but that by 7,000 years ago the sea shore was close to its present position, at the base of the Tabon formation. The earliest dated pottery is from Manunggul Cave with two dates of about 700 and 900 B.C. These date...

.... , “ Reconsideration of the ‘Pre-Pottery’ culture of Japan ,” Artibus Asiae , 17 ( 1954 ), 135 – 143 , describes this and related finds. Kidder presents the skeptic's side of the question, pointing to what he considers valid relations in form between the tools in question and implements of Early Jōmon culture...

... were virtually unknown until very recently. Before 1981 Bernard Groslier, former conservator of Angkor, was the only person familiar with pottery made by the Khmer of the ninth to fourteenth centuries. The book here reviewed is the second to be written on this subject. The first, published...

...); " T n e Tabon Pottery Complex" (pp. 75-103); VI. "The Cultural Assemblages of Six Jar Burial Caves and Chronological Developments" (pp. 105-56); VII. "Notes on the Cultural Chronology and Relationships of the Jar Burial Complex of the Tabon Caves and Palawan" (pp. 157-66); VIII. "Test Excavations...

...Laurie J. Sears 950 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The second through fourth chapters summarize the development of pottery (prehistoric, unglazed and glazed historic, and imported wares) and the uses of folk pottery (everyday, religious and ceremonial, architectural). Capsule histories describe...

... who have a personal association with Japan, interest in pottery, or empathy for the craft of ethnography. What Philip takes note of as she chats with people, observes the seasonal round of activities, and studies pottery making in the southern Kyushu hamlet where the folk pottery known as Naeshirogawa...

... comprehensive study of the entire field in four parts: Pre-Pottery, Jomon, Yayoi, and Tomb cultures. He begins with the general geographical setting of each. Then, in each period, he presents a stratigraphical or chronological view. He has so skillfully organized his complex subject that it appears simple...

... STUDIES and cognitive theory as represented by the work of Bourdieu (Outline of a Theory of Practice [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977 The body of data on pottery that is the focus of the present study, however, is not derived from an excavated prehistoric assemblage, but from a contemporary...

... of artifacts (pottery, bronze, stones and jades, bones and shells, etc). The manuscript of this volume is being prepared by Dr. Li Chi, and according to the latest information, is already more than half completed. The other volumes are also in competent hands; some of these are nearing completion. 301 302 FAR...

... is a multifaceted theme. Guided by this theme, Brian Moeran's anthropological study of "the total social processes surrounding the production, marketing, and appreciation" (p. 8) of Onta pottery speaks to social scientists, Japan specialists, potters, and craft enthusiasts. Aficionados ofJapanese folk ceramics...