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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1310–1311.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Anne-Marie Gaston; Sahin Bekhradnia Ritual Art and Knowledge: Aesthetic Theory and Zoroastrian Ritual . By Ron G. Williams and James W. Boyd . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1993 . xv, 200 pp. $39.35. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 February 1991
...R. David Arkush Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual: “Mu-lien Rescues His Mother” in Chinese Popular Culture . Edited by David Johnson . Berkeley, Calif. : Chinese Popular Culture Project . Distributed by IEAS Publications, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, Calif., 94720, 1989 . xiii , 324 pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Michael R. Rhum Muang Metaphysics: A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual . By Richard Davis . Bangkok : Pandora Press , 1984 . 324 pp. Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behavior . By Gehan Wijeyewardene . Bangkok : Pandora Press , 1982 . 274 pp. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 761–764.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Keith Howard Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of the Korean Mudangs . Compiled and edited by Im Sok-Jae . Translated by Alan C. Heyman . Fremont, Calif. : Asian Humanities Press , 2003 . x , 364 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Shaman Ritual Music in Korea . By Lee Yong-Shik . Korean Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 546–551.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the Buddhist-majority countries of Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. A prolific veteran of South and Southeast Asian Buddhist studies, Holt begins by introducing the two fundamental terms in the book: “Theravada traditions” and “ritual cultures.” He defines “Theravada traditions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Gerard F. Kennedy Religion and Ritual in Korean Society . Edited by Laurel Kendall and Griffin Dix . Korea Research Monograph 12. Berkeley : University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies , 1987 . viii, 223 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 758–759.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Norman Cutler The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual . By Vasudha Narayanan . Columbia, S.C. : The University of South Carolina Press , 1994 . xvii, 265 pp. $42.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 758 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1112–1114.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with a muscular preface that introduces many of the positions that undergird subsequent chapters. To begin with, Copp stresses that the dhāraṇī or “spells” that constitute the centerpiece of his book are not exclusively oral; they are also tangible ritual objects, worn as amulets, gazed upon as forms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1059–1079.
Published: 01 November 2014
... are the assumptions that central institutions are definitive of authoritarian states, and divides between study of the sacred and secular. I propose the notion of “ritual governance” to address these conceptual issues and illustrate this with an ethnographic case study from a major development project in Laos...
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in Religious Resurgence, Authoritarianism, and “Ritual Governance”: Baci Rituals, Village Meetings, and the Developmental State in Rural Laos
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 1. Baci ritual in Dao Village with the two honored guests—the district governor and WMPA director—to the bottom right. Photograph by author.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 38 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Renato Rosaldo BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 215 Compadrinazgo: Ritual Kinship in the Philippines. BY DONN V. HART. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1977. xvi, 256 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. This study at once explores the structure and function of "compadrinazgo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 972–974.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Thomas E. Fricke Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Among Nepal's Tamang . By David H. Holmberg . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1989 . xvi, 265 pp. $29.95. Depicted Deities: Painter's Model Books in Nepal . By M. L. B. Blom . Groningen, The Netherlands : Egbert...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 February 2010
... China's middle period. But here he goes astray. De Pee builds on the work of others; he is not the first to address wedding practice or ritual, or the first to consider the meaning of ritual in China's middle period. Nor does he claim to be. What he does claim, however, is to be the first to read...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 May 2024
...David B. Gray 1. Jacob P. Dalton, “How Dhāraṇī s WERE Proto-Tantric: Liturgies, Ritual Manuals, and the Origins of the Tantras,” in Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation , edited by David B. Gray and Ryan Richard Overbey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 202...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 818–820.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Michael Tsin China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing . By Charles D. Musgrove . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . ix, 316 pp. ISBN: 9780824836283 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 625–627.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Peter J. Bertocci Kinship and Ritual in Bengal: Anthropological Essays . By Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör . New Delhi : South Asian Publishers , 1984 . x, 224 pp. $26. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1127–1128.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of California, Berkeley Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India. By STEPHANIE W. J A M I S O N . New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 340 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Jamison's new book will be a definitive one for those working in Vedic and epic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 713–715.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Monni Adams Art, Ritual and Society in Indonesia . Edited by Edward Bruner and Judith Becker . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University, Center for International Studies (Southeast Asian Series, no. 53), 1979 . vii, 189 pp. $13 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Susan S. Wadley Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village . By Gloria Goodwin Raheja . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1988 . xiv, 286 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 652–654.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Charles F. McKhann By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual . Edited by Richard Schechner and Willa Appel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 652 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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