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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 532–533.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Irene Joshi The Sari: Styles, Patterns, History, Techniques . By Linda Lynton . Photographs by Sanjay K. Singh. New York : Harry N. Abrams , 1995 . 206 photographs. 208 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 532 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 840–842.
Published: 01 August 2012
... form) on the U.S. West Coast. An ambitious undertaking, Sweating Saris draws from historical, ethnographic, performance studies, feminist, and political methods of inquiry. Srinivasan's book chronicles the receptivity and influence of Indian dance forms and artists' labor within both the U.S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1228–1229.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Meena Khandelwal White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India . By Sarah Lamb . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2000 . xvii, 294 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 53–76.
Published: 01 November 1972
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 13–29.
Published: 01 November 1962
...: today was the day of the weekly market, and the “god” on his journey had reached this town to make a day's halt. My guide and I picked our way through heaps of millet and wheat and rice, through pots and pans, through bales of cloth and saris, toys and hand-mirrors, vegetables and sweets—everything...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 5 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 November 1945
..., p. 30. 23 The voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 , ed. Satow Ernest by sir ( London , Hakluyt Society , 1900 ), p. xlix. 24 Firando, now known as Hirado, a small island at the north-west corner of Kiushiu island. 25 Adams' letter 1, p. 31...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 531–532.
Published: 01 May 1997
... product is a thought-provoking book about sexuality and mystical experience, and how in the end the two are "joined at the hips." D A V I D L. H A B E R M A N Indiana University The Sari: Styles, Patterns, History, Techniques. By L I N D A L Y N T O N . Photographs by Sanjay K. Singh. New York: Harry N...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 533–534.
Published: 01 May 1997
...), and kora (border) in Rajasthan will be a veshti, attam, and kara in Kerala. That ubiquitous motif in South Asian textile design, the mango, is never described as paisley. The glossaries include Indian terms used in the text; a description of textile terms to assist the "weaving challenged"; the word sari...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 527–529.
Published: 01 May 2020
... a “clothes reading” of Syrian Christian women's sartorial choices over the last few centuries, during which the standard three-piece garment (of thuni/munda, chatta, and kavani ), which clearly identified the wearer as Syrian Christian, gave way first to the sari and then to the churidar (or salwar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 February 2004
...-HANG T. NGUYEN Yale University Les relations franco-chinoises au vingti`eme si`ecle et leurs ante´c´edents. Edited by LAURENT CE´ SARI and DENIS VARASCHIN. Arras, Fr.: Artois Presses Universite´s, 2003. 290 pp. 21. Despite the best intentions of the organizers, it is never easy to produce an edited...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 67–77.
Published: 01 November 1962
... place. Less than 1.5% of all informants felt that school children could be regarded as good sources of information. Sari-sari store keepers within the barrio do not rank high as sources of information, only 2.3% being given first place, although the sari-sari store is visited frequently...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1326–1328.
Published: 01 November 2003
.... Based on extensive interviews with students, political activists, and labor organizers, the book provides penetrating details about both the shifting political and economic context for organizing as well as the personal trajectories of key players, such as Muchtar Pakpahan and Dita Sari, and a host...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Delhi, Bangalore, and Calcutta: blonde and brunette hair coloring on naturally black-haired, middle-class Indian women; sari-clad Barbie dolls in American-style shopping malls and department stores named Shoppers Stop, Westside, and Pantaloon; McAlooTikis in McDonald s; Subway sandwiches for vegetarians...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 February 1996
... which shops were Muslim, after all, they had been neighbors for years. At daybreak, a charred corpse lies in a street while people hurry past as if the macabre sight did not exist. Then the scene cuts to the leering faces of youths: "We taught them a lesson . . . we don't wear saris." Patwardhan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1162–1163.
Published: 01 November 2014
... a democracy (p. 68). In the first half of the book, Rainsy charts the course of his life. He was born in 1949. His father was the politician Sam Sary, who was sent by King Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate Cambodia's independence from France in 1954. Sam Sary lost favor with Sihanouk, however...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 962–963.
Published: 01 November 1990
... the Kodalikaruppar brocaded and printed sari which was woven for the Thanjavur royal family. These saris were woven of sheer cotton, incorporated golden jamdani (brocade) encapsulated by a complex printed all-over design. She mentions that the Weavers Service Center in Madras has revived this style of weaving (p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 779–798.
Published: 01 August 1970
... of the wedding necklace, direction of wrapping the sari, use of the sacred thread, and the color of a widow's garments. All of these except the last also bear some relation to the distinction between Brahman and Kshatriya in the classical texts.21 For the purpose of this initial effort at measuring subcaste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 797–798.
Published: 01 August 1984
... by means of kin and ethnic ties, while retailing was limited to sari-sari shops and urban bazaars. The change taking place after 1930 is of particular interest; the general-line trade companies began to be challenged by firms with new norms of specialization which handled'a restricted set of products drugs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 February 2004
... vingti`eme si`ecle et leurs ante´c´edents. Edited by LAURENT CE´ SARI and DENIS VARASCHIN. Arras, Fr.: Artois Presses Universite´s, 2003. 290 pp. 21. Despite the best intentions of the organizers, it is never easy to produce an edited volume that is thematically uni ed and even in quality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 February 2004
... . xi , 111 pp. $24.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 130 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S Paris to advance Beijing s national interests. Ce´sari s discussion of Georges Pompidou s policy toward China between 1969 and 1974...