... with Nature warns us that we ign­ ore our re­lat­ ional ontologies and symb­ i­otic re­la­tion­ship with natureculture at our own per­il. Suzy Kim Rutgers University DOI: 10.1215/00219118-11493413 City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism. By Se-Mi Oh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University...

... an innovative way to research the Yellow River history. It is worthwhile to note that the book extensively discusses the role of climate change in the long history of the Yellow River. Drawing on climatic proxy data, including tree rings, ice cores, lake and peat sediments, and glacier fluctuations, Mostern...

..., East Pakistan, in 1964 under the joint sponsorship of UNESCO and the Government of Pakistan, drew fifty-four participants, whose papers and ensuing discussions have been arranged in the present report in the following seven sections: (1) geomorphology, sedimentation, and pedology; (2) hydrography...

... the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, despite the far greater loss of life in that event? We have a long process of analysis and contextualization ahead before the traumatic events of March 2011 have sedimented into history. Meanwhile, the nuclear disaster continues. When the Japanese government announced...

... the fossils occur are sediments formed of outwash from the south slopes of the emerging Himalayas, thus suggesting a fortuitous clustering of the fossils. He suggests that recent work in Nepal and other northeastern Siwalik beds points toward an area where this ambiguity may be overcome with additional...

... STUDIES 84:1 February 2025 One area in par­tic­u­lar mer­its fur­ther ex­plo­ra­tion. Coursing un­der­neath City of Sediments is an aquif­er of memo­ ry that runs from the Chos n past to the erst­while co­lon­ ial prese­ nt. In col­o­nial Seoul, ref­lec­tions of the Chos n Dynasty served not only...

... ­cal conf­ licts, Making Peace with Nature warns us that we ign­ ore our re­lat­ ional ontologies and symb­ i­otic re­la­tion­ship with natureculture at our own per­il. Suzy Kim Rutgers University DOI: 10.1215/00219118-11493413 City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism. By Se-Mi...

..., in response to decades-long scholarly conversations ranging from Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz to Catherine Bell and Robert Orsi, among others. Srinivas argues that wonder is apparent in everyday ritual in Bangalore and that it reflects moments of creativity that occur sporadically but then sediment...

... and turns, the history that does not capture the unexpected falls flat. What should constitute the intellectual history that accompanies that twisted tale? Should it be a description of the sedimentation of ideas into what this book refers to as “the Chinese state,” or should it reflect the fits and starts...

.... This practice is consistent with the larger schemes of cultural classification; it is also a sedimentation of history, that is, inscribed in people's dispositions as the "right" way to use bonito hooks. These cultural and social structural aspects are not considered in Terrel's analysis. His major quest...

... imagination” with “contingent contagiousness” produced a rationale for urban renewal that extended into the countryside (see Prashant Kidambi, “An Infection of Locality: Plague, Pythogenesis and the Poor in Bombay, c. 1896–1905,” Urban History 3, no. 2 [2004]: 249–67) that sedimented into an active, though...

... water, but since the concentration and intensity of runoff are distinct from those in humid lands the resulting land forms are different. Many desert rivers which rise in distant snow-covered mountains lose water and wither as they cross the dry lowlands, so that their sediments accumulate in great...

... in the West as South Asia. Tarikh-i Firishta , written by Muhammad Qasim Firishta in the early seventeenth century, forms the basis for Asif's exploration: “This Persian history, and its own intellectual genealogy, constitutes the bedrock—a sedimentation—for this book” (p. 6). The book advances four...

..., and numerous local, superior sites were separated from each other in space and situation. The total central area of such landscapes is in the vicinity of 200,000 square miles. After the close of the glacial era, as loess deposition and alluvial sedimentation slowed down, this region would seem to have been...

... force that confronts the linguistic sediment of her transpacific exile” (26). While this point is well argued, considering Wu as an independent language by default and identifying Chang's translation from Wu vernacular to Mandarin Chinese as translingual confuses, to a certain degree, the conventional...

...: sedimentation, salinization, pollution, engineering debacles, sinking cities (including Beijing itself, according to recent news), exasperated peasants, and battles over Himalayan headwaters. Pietz chronicles how forty years of high modernism and high socialism reversed the South's millennium-long role...

..., epitomized as "sedimentation," ultimately attains a self-certification of knowledge. Involved in this process is a stratification of somatic modality, including tensionality (add-tcnsion, attention, engagement with the living ambience), de-tensionality (halting external sensory perception, achieving...

... of such landscapes is in the vicinity of 200,000 square miles. After the close of the glacial era, as loess deposition and alluvial sedimentation slowed down, this region would seem to have been the most attractive part of eastern Asia to groups of people just learning to handle the simplest problems of rudimentary...

... of the Neolithic is superseded by recent French discoveries in Pakistan at Mehrgarh, where a long pre-ceramic Neolithic is dated as early as the seventh millennium B.C. In India, known Neolithic cultures are not older than about 2500 B . C , but Agrawal notes that recent studies of lake-bed sediments suggest...

.... But why should even neo-Stalinists not learn from the expert consensus that big projects involving high dams are not only the worst way to obtain electricity, aid flood control, and enhance river navigation, but that they also produce negative side effects such as flooding, earthquakes, sedimentation...