...Mana Kia The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu . By Pasha M. Khan . Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press , 2019 . xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780814345993 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021...

... that aim to serve them. DAVID W HAINES U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Spell of the Ancestors and the Power of Mekkah. By SVEN CEDERROTH. Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis (Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology, no. 3), 1981. x, 315 pp. Note on Orthography and Names, Appendix...

...Graeme MacRae The Peoples of Bali . By Angela Hobart , Urs Ramseyer , and Albert Leeman . Oxford : Blackwell , 1996 . xiii, 274 pp. $54.95 The Spell of Power: A History of Balinese Politics, 1650–1940 . By Henk Schulte-Nordholt . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . ix, 389 pp...

...Ryan Richard Overbey Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals . By Koichi Shinohara . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xxii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780231166140 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

... the body or other sites, including cadavers. Enchanted ash, soil, dust, oil, and most intriguingly, shadows figure prominently as vectors of transference. In this context, one of the chief material supports for spells is the dhāraṇī -pillar. Copp closely ties the unique practice of erecting these stone...

...Steven B. Miles Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Governance in Late Imperial China . By Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2009 . xii , 314 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Some...

... for the omission of some irrelevant material at the end. Modern versions of place names, when identifiable, are given in brackets. The spelling and grammar are Walter's. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 1 The standard account of the Burlingame Mission is Williams F...

... be separated from his innovations in the language and form of fiction. He employed a variety of dialects and deviated from conventional spelling and grammar, to draw the reader into the rural universe of sound. He included indigenous genres, such as the folk song, folktale, and rural drama, within the frame...

... Abstract Kathleen Erwin's name was spelled wrong in JAS 60.1. She is the author of the review of Jun Jing's Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children and Social Change which appears on pp. 164–166). We regret the error. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...

...Indrani Chatterjee Abstract From the 1960s to the present, scholars of Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and other regional literatures and cultures have spelled out their differences with either their Freudian or Foucauldian counterparts on the articulation of love, desire, and embodiment...

...Anne Hardgrove Abstract T he legal debate in india over the worship and glorification of sati (widow burning, previously spelled “suttee”) stands unresolved at present. After several years of controversy, the practice of worshipping sati was made illegal in 1987 after the death of a young Rajput...

...Wendy Doniger Abstract L et me begin with a story about General Sir Charles James Fox Napier, who was born in 1782 and in 1839 was made commander of Sind (or Scinde, as it was often spelled at that time, or Sindh), an area at the western tip of the Northwest quadrant of South Asia, directly above...

... that the received models of Minangkabau social life are suspect, including the “idealised categories of nagari [village], adat [customs], matrilineal kinship, lineage property rights, and the autonomy of village communities governed by panghulu [titled men, Minangkabau spelling]” (Young 1994, 12). Anthropologists...