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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Roger Jeffery Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners . By D. N. Kakar . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers , 1988 . xiv, 195 pp. Rs 125.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183 Much anthropological literature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 831–848.
Published: 01 November 2013
... history, addressing the classification of ethnicity and religion by both the colonial and postcolonial states. The article describes how Islamic finance is defined by practitioners in Malaysia and explains the key features they invoke to distinguish it from what they call “conventional finance”. Finally...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (3): 335–342.
Published: 01 May 1956
... work to those around him and to posterity? The distinction often made in the West between artist and craftsman did not affect India. The practitioner of one of the sixty-four recognized branches of art ( kala ), which provided channels for every possible kind of creative endowment to be trained...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 5–20.
Published: 01 June 1964
... are not catalogued nor are the main ceremonies enumerated; rather, the meaning of deities and of ritual in the lives of the practitioners is examined. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 1 This listing of the main features of each complex is a preliminary sorting out. As noted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1009–1041.
Published: 01 November 1998
... of information, a locus of leisure and social gatherings, an occasional office and marketplace for many practitioners, and an arena where various social forces competed for status and influence. Urbanization in the late Qing dynasty further contributed to the growth of teahouses, especially in the Yangzi River...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 184–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... world as its practitioners, but their power and position were less certain by the 1940s. Examining the arguments produced in newspaper articles and by the prominent Okinawan intellectual Iha Fuyū in 1913, this article argues that the campaign contributed to the erosion of these women's position...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 346–366.
Published: 01 May 1994
... not. During the 1970s, younger scholars of Japan attacked modernization theory with considerable passion (see Dower 1975), eliciting rather defensive responses from its practitioners. The 1980s saw the emergence of yet another, though somewhat smaller, generation of American scholars, which has been not so...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 770–786.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Ann Grodzins Gold Abstract The Pervasive Presence in Asia of ascetic practitioners—whether sedate, shorn, and robed monks or fierce, ash-smeared, naked yogis—has long fascinated Western observers and certainly nourished stereotypes of a mysterious, otherworldly, and impenetrable East. In India...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1165–1186.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Joseph S. Alter Abstract In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Said's interpretation of the history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 485–493.
Published: 01 May 1980
... to control the object of their scholarship; or, finally, is saying nothing of relevance to practitioners of other disciplines or students of other areas—anyone who harbors such suspicions may wish to consider the manner and substance of the following two passages, chosen from among documents that I happen...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 697–722.
Published: 01 August 1984
...David Holmberg Abstract Every religious system in Nepal, including that of the Tamang, is multifaceted and has numerous practitioners. Without apparent contradiction, western Tamang simultaneously engage Buddhist lamas who preside over elaborate rites of death, sacrificial lambu who propitiate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 7–35.
Published: 01 February 1987
... as part of the biological substratum of human experience, operating according to universal laws that apply to all human beings and to other living creatures as well. Older practitioners of the history of science, when confronted with the bewildering variety of customs, rituals, and medical aids...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 143–170.
Published: 01 February 2008
... examines the culture of merit making and morality building that leads clergy and lay practitioners to form translocal networks with the aim of constructing temples in rural areas where they have few or any cultural ties. The author explores how temple building is driven by differing moral visions within...
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in The Spiritual Land Rush: Merit and Morality in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2008
Figure 1. A poster from a temple in Jiangsu Province with ambitious renovation plans extols the achievements of its abbot and his temple. 3 The abbot's gaze toward the sky and away from the practitioners suggests both his focus on the divine (a potential source of merit) and his lack
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Kay K. Jordan Nityasumaṅgalī: Devadasi Tradition in South India . By Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1987 . xxii, 226 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 184 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES qualified practitioners...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... It casts a wider ethnographic net than Smyer Yü's study by including Hong Kong and Taiwan. While Esler makes clear that his primary focus is on understanding the perspectives of Chinese practitioners in these three interconnected but contextually distinct locations, his study gains additional breadth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1340–1341.
Published: 01 November 1994
.... Neither is there always a clear distinction between malign practitioners and those who practice a magical craft for the good of others. In Java (Ronny Nitibaskara) the term dukun refers to practitioners as diverse as midwives and sorcerers, and.only a further qualifier differentiates these roles. However...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1117–1119.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and deployed by “traditional” medical practitioners in aid of Unani's multiplicity. Specifically, Schmidt-Stiedenroth follows how many hakims conceptualize Unani medicine as ‘ilm or “knowledge itself” that can seamlessly appropriate “modern science as methodology” (p. 219). While carefully attending...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 841–862.
Published: 01 August 1972
... and characteristic of associational interest groups in general. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 1 For a recent, concise statement of the JMA's position on health insurance and a variety of related issues, see:
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 53–69.
Published: 01 June 1964
... deviations from Sanskritic norms (cf. Marriott, 1955), but many are of a different order. They supplement Sanskritic ritual but are not derived from it. Among these are the activities of a variety of religious practitioners such as shamans, diviners, exorcists, curers, and propitiators of particular gods...
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