... pp. ISBN: 9780190610135 (cloth, also available as e-book). Why India Is Not a Great Power (Yet) . By Bharat Karnad . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 568 pp. ISBN: 9780199459223 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 “Brazil...

... of the cult but rather in notions, preserved generally in popular Hinduism, of the special accessibility of power at special times. VOL. XXXVII, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1977 Special Time, Special Power: The Fluidity of Power in a Popular Hindu Festival JOHN M. STANLEY T HE cult of Khandoba...

...Wilbur W. White Foundations of national power. Readings on world politics and American security . Edited By Harold and Margaret Sprout . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1945 . x, 774 p. $4.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 470...

...Albert Parry American-Russian rivalry in the Far East. A study in diplomacy and power politics, 1895–1914 . By Edward H. Zabriskie . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1946 . vii, 226 p. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK...

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...Beverley D. Causey, Jr Abstract In the fall of 1925, representatives of the powers which had attended the Washington Conference met in Peking for the long-delayed discussion of China's claim to tariff autonomy. Germany was not one of this group and received no special invitation; however...

... and lower caste, even as they expertly unpack the power dynamics of caste, class, and gender that roil Tamil Catholic communities and their relations with non-Catholics. Both represent breakthrough scholarship that will be of interest not only to specialists in Indian Christianity but also those engaged...

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...Anthony J. Spires The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China . By Stephen Noakes . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2017 . 208 pp. ISBN: 9781526119476 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

... of the Daode Jing 道德經 (Scripture on the Dao and Inner Power): “Appear plain and embrace simplicity; / Lessen selfishness and decrease desire.” More significantly, in chapter 4, Jia argues—with good reason and viable, circumstantial evidence—that the seminal, possibly eighth-century Zuowang Lun 坐忘論...

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..., sociology, environmental studies, and others. Throughout, several key concerns have anchored Scott's work: examining Southeast Asia as a site of research (albeit increasingly in conversation with other regions), probing how power functions in the world, and exploring the agency of individuals—including...

...Kevin W. Fogg Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Dā’ūd bin ‘Abd Allāh Al-Faṭāni in Mecca and Southeast Asia . By Francis R. Bradley . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2016 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9780824851613 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright ©...

...R. Barry Lewis Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300–1600 . By Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xxvi, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780198092216 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright ©...

...Madhuri Desai Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture . By Santhi Kavuri-Bauer . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2011 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9780822348993 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...: Bentian Dayak Authors and Indonesian Development Discourse.” PhD diss., Cornell University. Galanter Marc . 1974 . “ Why the ‘Haves’ Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change .” Law & Society Review 9 : 95 – 160 . Gaventa John . 1980 . Power and Powerlessness...

... : University of Toronto Press , 2011 . viii, 232 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts . By Tomohito Shinoda . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xvii, 328 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Malfunctioning...

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...V. Geetha Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present . By Sumit Guha . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . 236 pp. $127.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Sumit Guha's Beyond Caste seeks to detach the study of caste from...

...Jeongsoo Shin The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea . By Cho Hwisang . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2020 . xiii, 276 pp. ISBN: 9780295747804 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Cho Hwisang begins The Power...