...Benedict R. O'G. Anderson The Struggle of the Naga Tribe: A Play . By W. S. Rendra . Translated and introduced by Max Lane . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1980 . xli , 101 pp. Translator's Preface and Introduction, Appendixes. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Dorothy M. Spencer The Religion of an Indian Tribe . By Verrier Elwin . London : Oxford University Press , 1955 . xxiv , 597. Bibliography, Index. $6.55. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 455 South India will be written time and again...

...Michael S. Billig The Lost Tribe . Written and produced by Bettina Lerner . A BBC production in association with WGBH for Nova, 1993 . Distributed by Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, N.J. 08543. VHS format; 60 minutes. $89.95. Copyright © The Association...

...Kate Gilbert Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests in Jharkand . By Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan . New Delhi : Kali for Women , 1991 . vi, 187 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 255 All in all, this is a very...

...James C. Scott Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries . By Sumit Guha . Asia Shorts, no. 10. Ann Arbor : Association of Asian Studies , 2021 . ix, 113 pp. ISBN: 9780924304958 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 If a single, compact survey of a large...

...Edward J. Jay The Gonds of Andhra Pradesh: Tradition and Change in an Indian Tribe . By Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf in collaboration with Elizabeth von Fürer-Haimendorf. London : Allen and Unwin (School of Oriental and African Studies, Studies on Modern Asia and Africa, No. 12), 1979...

...Charles Lindholm A Tribe in Transition: The Jaintias of Meghalaya . By H. L. Deb Roy . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press , 1983 . xvi, 222 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 634 JOURNAL...

...Dale Riepe The Maler: A Study in Nature-Man-Spirit Complex of a Hill Tribe . By L. P. Vidyarthi . Calcutta : Bookland Private Limited , 1963 . xiii, 261 . 24 plates. Rupees 20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 353 the fragmentation of land...

...David Hicks The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life . By Doug Block Clark . New York : Little, Brown , 2019 . 368 pp. ISBN: 9780316390620 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Living...

..., for it was among them that there emerged the earliest historical works expressly devoted to the “Afghans,” in this period effectively denoting (and consolidating) membership of the disparate Pashtun tribes. 2 Marginalizing to the periphery of Afghan history the writings produced in India between the sixteenth...

...Edward J. Jay Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival . By Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1982 . xiv, 343 pp. Halftones, Maps. $29.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 354 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tribes...

...Edward J. Jay The Aboriginal Tribes of India . By Stephen Fuchs . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1977 . vi, 308 pp. Index of Subjects, Authors, and Tribes. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 194 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Untouchables...

... grade geography text, the frequent omission of page numbers is annoying, and the dust cover is remarkably unattractive. ELIZABETH LYONS Michigan State University Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Na- tions. EDITED BY PETER KUNSTADTER. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1967. Two Volumes...

...Paul Hockings Life among Indian Tribes: The Autobiography of an Anthropologist . By Christoph Von Fürer-Haimendorf . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1990 . x , 186 pp. Rs. 190.00. Philanthropologist, Selected Writings . By Verrier Elwin ; edited by Nari Rustomji . New...

...Carol J. Ireson-Doolittle The Commercialized Crafts of Thailand: Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages; Collected Articles . By Erik Cohen . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2002 . xiii , 316 pp. $20.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V...

... the coterminous castes and tribes (CCTs, for short), that is, by members of the low-status castes and tribes who live in close proximity to targeted Christian communities, and who, because of their proximity (both geographic and hierarchical), compete with them socially, politically, and economically. Though most...

... and the Mongol Empire ( New York : Facts on File , 2004 ), p. 621 . 13 Johan Elverskog , The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century ( Leiden : Brill , 2003 ), p. 15 . The Spread of Buddhism among Western Mongolian Tribes between the Thirteenth...

...Stuart Corbridge Abstract This paper reports on the economic and political consequences of reserving government and public-sector jobs for members of the Scheduled Tribes in the Indian State of Bihar. It also contributes to a more general debate on the system of compensatory discrimination that has...

... communications of elements of culture to that band or tribe from others, but, as it now is, he understands that it keeps going by itself; and in describing its parts and their workings he need not go outside the little group itself. The exceptions, where the band or tribe relies on some other band or tribe...

...Benjamin D. Hopkins Abstract From the invention of imperial authority along the North-West Frontier of British India, subjects were divided between the “civilized” inhabitants populating the cultivated plains and the “wild tribes” living in the hills. The problem of governing this latter group...