...Jérôme Rousseau Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine Among the Taman of Borneo . By Jay H. Bernstein . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner , 1997 . xiv, 209 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK...

...Jérôme Rousseau Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down . By Bernard Sellato . Translated by Stephanie Morgan . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . xxiii, 280 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... articles in journals and magazines. The writings of John Stuart Mill ranked next in popularity. Other Western thinkers—such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Guizot, Haeckel, T. H. Huxley, Darwin, Bentham, and Bagehot—received much less public attention. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954...

... to John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte rather than Diderot or Rousseau, because their goal was to expose Japan to those urbane modes of thought from abroad which would bring her to the “civilized” stage of development envisaged by European social philosophy. The means to be employed consisted of empiricism...

... dedicated to the pursuit of a liberal polity. The social contract theory of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the constitutionalism of Baron Charles de Montesquieu, the laissez-faire economics of Adam Smith, and the reflections of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton on the challenges...

...J. Peter Brosius Central Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society . By Jerome Rousseau . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1990 . x, 380 pp. $72.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1007 account...

...Robert L. Winzeler Kayan Religion: Ritual Life and Religious Reform in Central Borneo . By Jérôme Rousseau . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1998 . vii, 352 pp. $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 614 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a son he never...

..., but the chaos, unending civil wars, and later Japanese invasions, as well as the attractive example of two European political movements, fascism and communism, made this close to impossible. Mao Zedong said that he had read Adam Smith, Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Rousseau, Spencer, and Montesquieu (Snow 1968...

... of French thinkers that Vietnamese writers were introduced to Western political and autobiographical writings, including the Contrat social and Émile by Rousseau (p. 53). On the other hand, this kind of class criticism ignores the way in which genres such as the revolutionary memoir...

... to arrange for a state based on force in order to make them see reason, or to Rousseau's "social contract" which allowed men to organize their state in order to confer freedom on the individual by remaining collectively sovereign and absolute. Neither Hobbes' nor Rousseau's contract can be compared...

... of the Public World is written from an aloof and nonacademic perspective. Therefore I cannot recommend it for classroom use. KATHLEEN NADEAU California State University, San Bernardino Kayan Religion: Ritual Life and Religious Reform in Central Borneo. B Y JEROME ROUSSEAU. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1998. vii, 352 pp...

... interested in Borneo, and is certain to be cited in nearly all future work. As noted, there have been few attempts to synthesize the ethnography of central Borneo. Rousseau's attempt, while not completely successful, must be welcomed. To the extent that Rousseau has clarified how this social system...

... this book perhaps the best yet written on the subject for the general reader. Its style is notable for lucidity and simplicity; its exposition of ideas is always clear and logical; it draws illuminating comparisons between the Chinese thinkers and such men as Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel and other western...

... of his generation is passing from American academies. There are many reasons for this: the fracturing of faith in a broad, humanistic education, which means that fewer of us can speak intelligently of Montesquieu or Rousseau or, for that matter, Karl Marx; the increasing emphasis upon disciplinary method...

... in ethnographic accounts of various other Bornean peoples. It is possible that Rousseau thinks that the upper world-underworld dichotomy has been overstated, that it is unimportant (or even nonexistent) in Kayan belief, or that it is one of those things that got deemphasized with the Bungan reform, but any...

...,” as Aspinall puts it, is Indian democracy by any chance profoundly liberal? Do we need to draw a distinction between electoral vibrancy and liberalism? How does India's experience speak to the “Asian values” debate that Mark Thompson covers? How have Indian leaders dealt with the idea of a Rousseau-style mass...

..., discussing political methods, New Thoughts on Political Theory. Of course for many generations France has not lacked for men who could deal with political ideas. From the time of Rousseau and Montesquieu on, these men have analyzed fine points and dissected minutiae, laying bare the deepest mysteries...

... and 14, passim . 15 Ibid., 1:204ff. 1. 16 Feugère, 141. 17 Candide in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire , (Paris, 1877-1885, 21:196. 18 Discours sur l'origine de l'inègalitè parmi les hommes in Oeuvres complètes de Rousseau J. J. , ed. Musset-Pathay ( Paris...

... of the introduction of Western ideas of sovereignty feeding into the late Qing intellectual conundrum of the separation of state, emperor, and people. Chinese jurists, taking their cue from Rousseau and Bluntschli, elevated the state above emperor and people, and Liang Qichao followed suit. It appears he went...

... in English, is posture. Some of this is almost self-satirizing (e.g., Rousseau and Kant are dismissed not for specific ideas, but for being “two white, privileged European males,” p. 2). On such a foundation, Anand easily fixes most of the blame for what has befallen Tibet on Perfidious Albion...