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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Carol J. Compton The Village of the Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos . By Fred Branfman . Edited with an Introduction by James A. Hafner and Joel M. Halpern . Amherst : University of Massachusetts at Amherst, International Area Studies Program , 1978 . vi , 47 pp. N.p. The Old...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (3): 425–444.
Published: 01 May 1973
... by his inferiors. To illustrate this situation I shall describe certain types of contact that occurred between rural Thai officials, as superiors, and villagers as their inferiors. VOL. XXXII, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1973 Will and Awe: Illustrations of Thai Villager Dependency Upon Officials...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Michael Lewis The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 . By Simon Partner . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 2009 . xi , 230 pp. $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Simon...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 November 1961
.... such concepts as subsistence, margin, optimum MUKHERJEE. Bombay: Asia Publishing land holding, etc., and presents a very intelli- House, 1959. 263. Rs. 18.50. gent analysis of the economic and statistical problems involved in this nexus. A Pilot Survey of Fourteen Villages in U. P. In a brief review...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 413–414.
Published: 01 May 1962
...Clifford Geertz Some Social-Anthropological Obervations on Gotong Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java . By Koentjaraningrat . Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Publications , 1961 . (Monograph Series). Structural Changes in Javanese Society: The Village Sphere . By D...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 November 1974
...Daniel S. P. Yang BOOK REVIEWS 217 if they are, then in what way are they autobiographies? One feels uneasy, for example, with the author's somewhat facile view with regard to Hsiao Chun and his Village in August when he says that "the novel is a mirror in which we can see the rather awkward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 658–659.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Carol Laderman Nous Gens de Ganchong: Environnement et échanges dans un village malais [We People of Ganchong: Environment and exchange in a Malay village] . By Josiane Massard . Paris : Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Documentation et de Recherches sur...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 379–381.
Published: 01 February 1977
...Michael Moffatt Behind Poverty: The Social Formation in a Tamil Village . By Göran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg . Lund : Studentlitteratur ; and London: Curzon Press, 1975 . 340 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Tables, Notes, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, n.p.l. Pills against...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1129–1132.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Xin Liu Producing Guanxi: Sentiments, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village . By Andrew B. Kipnis . Durham, N.C. and London : Duke University Press , 1997 . xii , 226 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 May 2018
... China's restrictive cultural climate. This article examines a series of four comedic dialogues popular in Tibetan regions in the mid-1990s. Centered on the fictional Careful Village, these four performances juxtapose urban sophisticates and country bumpkins in ways that allow comedians to grapple...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 234–235.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Toby Lincoln From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat . By Andrew B. Kipnis . Oakland : University of California Press , 2016 . xxii, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780520289710 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (3): 383–402.
Published: 01 May 1958
...Walter C. Neale Abstract The data of village and farm business surveys in India are too inaccurate to be of use in the analysis of the rural economy or the changes therein. This unsatisfactory nature of the data stems from the difference in outlook and interests of the cultivator...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 650–651.
Published: 01 August 1958
... University of California, Berkeley Village Panchayats in India. By HARSH DEV MALAVIYA. New Delhi: All India Congress Committee, 1956. xlii, 843, xxxix. Tables, Bibliography, Index, Glossary. Rs 14 The increasing attention being given in India to village panchayats, as evidenced by the proposals relating...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 May 1946
...Paul F. Cressey A Chinese village: Taitou, Shantung province . By Martin C. Yang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1945 . xvii, 275 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 339 some phases of the T'ai-p'ing rebellion. Likewise...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (2): 220–221.
Published: 01 February 1951
...Marie M. Keesing Majuro: a village in the Marshall Islands . By Alexander Spoehr . Chicago : Chicago Natural History Museum , 1949 . 266 p. $3.50. (Fieldiana: Anthropology, vol. 39). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 220 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY rights...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (3): 340–343.
Published: 01 May 1951
...Felix M. Keesing Fijian village: an anthropologist's account of Fijian institutions, ethics, and personalities . By Buell Quain . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1948 . xvii, 459 p. $5.00. The megalithic culture of Melanesia . By Alphonse Riesenfeled . Leiden : E. J...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 175–183.
Published: 01 February 1956
...Robert E. Ward Abstract Throughout eastern and southern Asia the village stands in a position of critical but often unacknowledged importance. It provides the residence and social focus for an overwhelming proportion of the people living in those parts of the continent lying east of Afghanistan...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 February 1956
... had the legal denomination of a city. In 1950 of Japan's 46 prefectures there were five in which the population living in cities outnumbered the populations of towns and villages; in April 1953 their number had risen to seven. 40 A type of ostracism ( mura hachibu ) is sometimes applied within...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 15 (1): 146–153.
Published: 01 November 1955
...Morris E. Opler Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Village India: Studies in the Little Community . Ed. by McKim Marriott . With a Foreword by Robert Redfield and Milton Singer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1955 . xix, 269 . $4.50. 146 FAR...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 February 1956
...N. Srinivasan Abstract The progress of India during the last fifty years in industrialization and urbanization, though considerable, has not significantly affected the predominantly agricultural and rural character of her society. Five out of every six persons live in villages and four out of every...