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...Jean S. Turner Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1114 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES always wrote with precision as well as elegance and verve, it was in conversation that one sensed how much he really knew. A. J. S. R E I D CRAIG J. REYNOLDS The Australian National...

...Alicia Turner Abstract Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part...

...William LaFleur Abstract The anthropologist Victor Turner has proposed a new theory of religious pilgrimage, holding that people on pilgrimage have entered into a social modality that contrasts sharply with the one they ordinarily experience at home; roles, ranks, and social hierarchy have all been...

...John E. Turner Abstract The period of Japan's greatest promise, the hopeful 1920's when dim flashes of political liberalism were sometimes discernible, was also the “golden era” of the Kenseikai . The picture of those eventful years would be incomplete if the image of this political party, both...

...Karen Turner Ambition and Confucianism . By Rudi Thomsen . Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press , 1988 . 249 pp. $27.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 604 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The political reforms in question are those of 1986...

... at times of crisis, however, the narratives came into increasing conflict with the dictates of individual self-interest by the middle of the nineteenth century. The author draws on the theories of Victor Turner to explain the function of fictionalized history for its audience and then develops a historical...

... Childe and Ralph Turner declare that the resolution of this problem yields civilization. In a limited sense, it is always being solved in big cities: one can study it in caste interplay in the managing agencies of the Bombay textile industry, in the system of the Catholic church, or in the precinct...

...James H. Foard Abstract The author demonstrates how a Buddhist pilgrimage tradition affected symbolic and social changes in early modern Japan. After exploring the history of the Saikoku pilgrimage and its practice in the Tokugawa period, he suggests that Victor Turner's theories of “ communitas...

...Karen Turner Gottschang The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought . By Roger T. Ames . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1983 . xvii, 277 pp. Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

... disconfirm Victor Turner's theory of pilgrimage, or at least its applicability to the Kataragama case (JAS 38, no. 2 tI979]: 272). I made no such assertion in my essay because, in my judgment, Turner's theory is too general to be falsified by the Kataragama data. Only its explanatory utility is called...

...Michael J. Hathaway Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia . Edited by Sarah Turner . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2013 . 308 pp. ISBN 9780774824934 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

... of Genji .” Annals of the Southeastern Conference of the American Academy of Religion, 72–78 . Bloom Alfred . 1965 . Shinran's Gospel of Pure Grace . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Bynum Caroline Walker . 1984 . “Women's Stories, Women's Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner's...

... in a border war. For some time, the officials of the company had been discussing how they might open relations with Tibet, and to Hastings this seemed the opportunity they had been waiting for. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 2 Turner Captain Samuel...

...Henry M. Hoenigswald A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages . By R. L. Turner . London : Oxford University Press , 1966 . xx, 841 pp. Corrigenda. $48.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 747 1550. The author shows how...

...Gordon H. Fairbanks Collected Papers, 1912–1973 . By R. L. Turner . London : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xvi, 435 pp. $26.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 578 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES "References" and "Notes." The latter can be termed independent...

... Caton-Thompson (Zimbabwe, 1924-29); Leopold Sabatier (Montagnards of Vietnam, 1927-30); and Terence Turner (Kayapo of Brazil, 1962-present). The central goal of the book is to pluralize the "colonial situation" concept, which is argued to be too idealized and objectified and which neglected the wide...

... National University GORDON B. TURNER Gordon B. Turner, 81, died May 13, 1996. Born in New York City, he settled in Princeton in 1946 where he resumed his undergraduate studies after a twelve-year hiatus spent in banking, brokerage, and the military serving as an infantry captain on active duty...

... it. Though he 1114 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES always wrote with precision as well as elegance and verve, it was in conversation that one sensed how much he really knew. A. J. S. R E I D CRAIG J. REYNOLDS The Australian National University GORDON B. TURNER Gordon B. Turner, 81, died May 13, 1996. Born...

... the effort to have the evidence together now and signed by Turner's collaborator, J. C. that it is within reach? Wright. The Dictionary extablishes ca. 15,000 San- Every lexicographer must somewhere draw skrit or quasi-Sanskrit source words; according the line between his work and that of the to the dust...

... essays in this festschrift for Victor Turner (d. 1983) derive from three conferences on ritual and theatre, held in 1981 and 1982. The goal of the conferences was to "approach the genres of theatre, dance, music, sports, and ritual as a . . . coherent group, as performance . . . [and to] lay...