...George W. Kent Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal . By Michael R. Saso . Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press , 1972 . 120 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS Taoism...

...Sebastian Veg Voting as a Rite makes a persuasive argument for the continuity of political practices from the late Qing to the one-party regimes on each side of the strait. Hill's command of the literature and the general historical context is outstanding, his primary sources plentiful...

...Richard B. Pilgrim Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life . Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion 1. Tokyo : Kokugakuin University, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics , 1988 . iv, 156 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Leo Howe Mantras Between Fire and Water: Reflections on a Balinese Rite . By Frits Staal . Amsterdam : Monograph No. 166, Koninklijke Nederlandse van Wetenschappen, 1995 . viii, 112 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 873...

...Timothy Lubin Rites of the God-King: Śānti & Ritual Change in Early Hinduism . By Marko Geslani . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 314 pp. ISBN: 9780190862886 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 In spite of efforts by the later...

... and Anthropology,” reprinted in Kroeber, The Nature of Culture ( Chicago , 1952 ), 93 . An Interpretation of Agricultural Rites in Southeast Asia, with a Demonstration of Use of Data from both Continental and Insular Areas P. E. DE JOSSELIN DE JONG SINCE World War II, the monopoly on Indonesian studies...

... hommes. AN INTERPRETATION OF AGRICULTURAL RITES 291 however, from the disadvantage that although I am tolerably familiar with some cultures of western Indonesia, I cannot say the same for those of Indochina. So I will end by reiterating the hope that the rise of a new international interest...

...John C. Sikora The Rites of Twice Born . By Sinclair Stevenson Mrs. . New Delhi : Oriental Books Reprint Corporation , 1971 . xxiv, 474 pp. Index. $8.50. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Missouri.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS...

... on the argument that new death rites are simply the result of recently emergent trends toward “individualization” and “nuclearization” of the household, as put forth by supporters of the “historical-transition thesis” (p. 144). Rather, Kawano argues that both household structures and the succession ideology...

..., as well as for Chinese esoteric Buddhist traditions. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang: Rites and Teachings for This Life and Beyond . Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein and Sam van Schaik . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 2010 . 300 pp...

...Robert Menzies Rites of Spring: Gājan in Village Bengal . By Ralph W. Nicholas with an essay by David Curley . New Delhi : Chronicle Books , 2008 . xii , 216 pp. Rs 650 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Folk ritual traditions have long...

...Laura Hostetler Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs . Edited by Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu . Zürich : Völkerkundemuseum Zürich , 1998 . 396 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 159 tended to reinforce...

...Pamela Crossley The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China . By Macabe Keliher . Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , 2019 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780520300293 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The author suggests an explanation...

...Subah Dayal Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights . By Michael Laffan . London : Bloomsbury , 2017 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9781350022614 (cloth, also available as paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022...

...Susan S. Wadley BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 935 Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India. By WILLIAM G. ARCHER. Edited by BARBARA STOLER MILLER and MILDRED ARCHER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xl, 188 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography of the Writings of William G. Archer, Notes...

...Sharon A. Carstens Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community . By Jean DeBernardi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xiv , 318 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I...

...Herbert P. Phillips Thai Buddhism, Its Rites and Activities . By Kenneth E. Wells . Bangkok : Published by the author , 1960 . Distributed by Christian Bookstore, Bangkok, viii, 320 . Illustrated, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...A. L. Basham Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Krishna: Myths, Rites, and Attitudes . Edited by Milton Singer . Foreword by Daniel H. H. Ingalls. Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1966 . xvii, 277 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index. $6.50. BOOK REVIEWS 667...

...Caterina Guenzi Rites Hindous: Transferts et transformations . Edited by Gérard Colas and Gilles Tarabout . Paris : Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , 2006 . 504 pp. $45.00 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

... value, which was to be given visible representation in the performance of ancestral rituals. Christian missions, Catholic and Protestant, faced a conflict between filial piety and ancestral rites on the one hand, and the proscription of the performance of idolatrous rites on the other hand. From the end...