...Ellison Banks Findly Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India . By Stephanie W. Jamison . New York : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xvi, 340 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...

...) probably made the greatest individual contribution to the emergence of this verse form. It is my purpose to discuss the way in which he made use of a particular theme, that of the neglected wife, in his five word poetry. The theme of the neglected wife is a very old one. It is only one variation of what...

...E. M. Copeland The Old Woman, The Wife, and The Archer: Three Modern Japanese Short Novels . Translated by Donald Keene . New York : Viking Press , 1961 . xvi, 172 . $3.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 556 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES editing. His...

...Carlo Coppola Charlotte Canning: Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and Wife of the First Viceroy of India, 1817–1861 . By Virginia Surtees . London : John Murray , 1975 . xv, 319 pp. Illustrations, Index. $15.00 (Dist. by Transatlantic Arts) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Barbara Hamill Sato Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto . By Nakano Makiko . Translated with an introduction and notes by Kazuko Smith. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1995 . ill, 304 pp. $45.00(cloth); $15.00(paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Leela Fernandes Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism . By Tanika Sarkar . London : Hurst , 2001 . viii , 290 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 683 struggles to achieve...

... have been adopted by Rmeet (Lamet) uplanders in northern Laos, where the main type of hierarchy is the decentralized superiority of wife-givers over wife-takers. In the process of adoption, title-giving was subordinated to wife-giving, and today the wife-givers are the ritual source of ranks...

... wife-giving lineages with wife-receivers. This article examines several ways that the interpretive approach that is discussed in the introduction can help students of Indonesian ritual grasp diverse aspects of Batak marriage rituals such as their hidden symbolic organization and their practical...

... Abstract The Journal of Asian Studies wishes to acknowledge the following error which appeared in the review of Life in a Leyte Village , page 357 of the February 1967 issue. The reviewer reported that a wife often acts succorantly toward her husband but not toward her father or mother. Author...

...Milton Singer Abstract During a visit with my wife to India in 1954–1955 I had an opportunity to do a methodological field study in South India. The purpose of this study was to chart an intellectual map of some of the researchable territory that lies between the culture of a village or small...

..., and in the process promoted ideas about the purpose of women's education that would later be expressed by an icon of Meiji modernity: the “good wife, wise mother.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The geisha is an elusive, often problematic, figure in the historiography of modern...

..., was relaxing on the ground drinking beer with his wife, passing the time prior to Myanmar's opening men's football match of the 2013 Southeast Asian or SEA Games. Fifteen days later—after a glorious opening ceremony, a slew of gold medals, and a celebratory closing ceremony—his assessment seemed prescient...

...Edward C. Dimock, Jr. Abstract One day eight years ago it was heard that they had taken him to the dissecting room; yesterday evening it was, in the darkness of the Phalgun night when the fifth moon sank his desire was to die. His wife lay beside him, his child too; he had love, and hopein...

...Philip Lutgendorf Abstract The most popular book in northern India is a Hindi retelling of the ancient tale of Prince Rām and his wife, Sītāa, composed in about A.D. 1574 by the poet-saint Tulsīdās of Banaras. Throughout a vast region with a population of more than three hundred million people...

.... S. Arabia of Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba, at Apollo Bunder in the Bombay Harbor; and with rallies and functions held all across India (see NDTV 2015; Outlook 2015; see also Roy 2015). These centenary celebrations follow upon more than a decade-long shift in official Indian policy towards overseas...