...Anna P. McCormack Culture Change in Tribal Bihar: Munda and Oraon . By Sachchidananda . Calcutta, Allahabad, Patna : Bookland Private Limited , 1964 . 5, 158 , Illustrations, Tables, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index, Research Programmes Committee List of Published Reports. Rs...

...Josef Silverstein The Structure of Chin Society: A Tribal People of Burma Adapted to a Non-Western Civilization . By F. K. Lehman . Illinois Studies in Anthropology No. 3. Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1963 , 228 . Bibliography; Index. $3.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Harold A. Gould The Psychodynamics of Tribal Behaviour . By Sourindranath Sarkar . Calcutta : Bookland Private Limited , 1965 . x, 167 . Bibliography. Rs. 10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 151 political forces to political...

...Lawrence A. Babb Tribal Religion: Religious Beliefs and Practices among the Santals . By Joseph Troisi . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1979 . xvi, 294 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980...

... and Society: Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society. By AKBAR S. AHMED. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. xvi, 406 pp.- Photographs, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35 (cloth). In writing about the Mohmand Pukhtun of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Political...

...Adheesh Sathaye Perhaps the most striking feature of Blackburn's work is a reversal of the usual Indian gaze toward its marginalized tribal communities, allowing the reader to experience a culture that actively regards most Indians as outsiders, as halyang. Tribal culture has long been...

...Mario D. Zamora On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well Being Among the Batak of the Philippines . By James F. Eder . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . xvi, 276 pp. $36.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Christopher V. Hill Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement . By Edward Duyker . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1987 . xviii, 201 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 904 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tribal...

...Kirk Endicott Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural, and Social Perspectives . Edited by Geoffrey Benjamin and Cynthia Chou . Leiden : International Institute for Asian Studies; Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 2002 . x, 489 pp. $50.00 (cloth...

... the promised revised and improved second edition of the Atlas of Pakistan is published. JONATHAN S. ADDLETON U.S. Agency for International Development, Islamabad Tribal Populations and Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent. By C. VON FURER-HAIMENDORF. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. vi, 182 pp. N . p. (paper...

...William Fierman Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan . By Adrienne Lynn Edgar . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2004 . xviii , 296 pp. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 816 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E...

...John Thomas Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism . By G. Kanato Chophy . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2021 . 460 pp. ISBN: 9781438485812 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 G...

...Frank J. Moore Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations . By Lionel Caplan . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1970 . xvi, 224 pp. Map. Photographs, Glossary...

...Herman Tull Edge of Empire: The British Political Officer and Tribal Administration on the North-West Frontier, 1877–1947 . By Christian Tripodi . Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate , 2011 . 253 pp. $124.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 “Now...

...Raj S. Gandhi Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat . By Hein Streefkerk . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1985 . xv, 280 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 60. 1110 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Tim Oakes Abstract In His Science-Fiction Novel The Diamond Age (1995), Neal Stephenson envisions a post—nation-state world of the future, where countless fragmentations of cultural identity differentiate humanity into spatially discrete tribal zones. Identity has become entirely spatialized...

... and present were carefully mapped through the organizing principle of genealogy. While the Afghan religious world was being reshaped by the impact of empire, in response, tales of expressly Afghan saints served to tribalize the ties of Islam. With the decline of Mughal power, the collective “Afghan” identity...

...George Devereux Abstract In thinking about the claims to independence of the large civilized nations of south and Southeast Asia, we are prone to forget or to ignore the fact that these regions also contain more than eighty million tribal minorities. These large minorities are not negligible...

...M. N. Srinivas Abstract The concept of “Sanskritization” was found useful by me in the analysis of the social and religious life of the Coorgs of South India. A few other anthropologists who are making studies of tribal and village communities in various parts of India seem to find the concept...

... of Therevada Buddhism were united into a national religious system. In recent years, the Thai government has attempted to involve the Buddhist Sangha in efforts to promote economic development among the Thai peasantry and assimilation of tribal peoples into Thai society. While the policies designed...