Asian Ethnology [formerly Asian Folklore Studies]
Number 72, Volume 2, 2013
Editors’ Introduction: Performing Identity Politics
and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond [189–197]
Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi, and Andrea Lauser
Challenging the State by Reproducing its Principles:
The Demand for “Gorkhaland” between Regional
Autonomy and the National Belonging [199–220]
Wenner, Miriam
Performing the Garo Nation? Garo Wangala Dancing
between Faith and Folklore [221–239]
de Maaker, Erik
Performing Identity: The Transformation of a Tangsa
Festival in Assam, Northeast India [241–258]
Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi
The Institutionalization of Tribal Religion
Recasting the Donyi-Polo Movement in Arunachal
Pradesh [259–277]
Chaudhuri, Sarit Kumar
Ethnic Conversions and Transethnic Descent Groups in
the Assam-Meghalaya Borderlands [279–297]
Ramirez, Philippe
Transcultural Communication and Social Order
Comparisons in Upland Southeast Asia [299–319]
Sprenger, Guido
Evading the State Ethnicity in Northeast India
through the Lens of James Scott [321–331]
Karlsson, Bengt G.
Review of: Frank J. Korom, “The Anthropology of
Performance: A Reader” [333–335]
Tangherlini , Timothy R.
Review of: Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and
Sagehood in Early China” [336–339]
Lin, Hang
Review of: Jeremy E. Taylor, “Rethinking
Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-dialect Film
Industry in Cold War Asia” [340–344]
Yung, Sai-shing
Review of: Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, “The Rumor of
Globalization: Desecrating the Global from
Vernacular Margins” [344–346]
Chatterji, Roma
Review of: Andrew Alter, “Dancing with Devtās:
Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal,
North India” [347–351]
Wolf, Richard K.
Review of: Tamal Krishna Goswami, author, Graham M.
Schweig, editor,
“A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti:
Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada” [351–354]
Bryant, Edwin
Review of: Vivek Bald, “Bengali Harlem and the Lost
Histories of South Asian America” [355–357]
Uddin, Sufia Mendez
Review of: Patrick Daly, R . Michael Feener, and
Anthony S. J. Reid, eds., “From the Ground Up:
Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh”
[357–359]
Gamburd, Michele Ruth
Review of: Caren Freeman, “Making and Faking
Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China
and South Korea” [360–363]
Kim, Eleana
Review of: Katherine Swancutt, “Fortune and the
Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian
Divination” [363–365]
King, Matthew
Review of: Geraldine Pratt, “Families Apart: Migrant
Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love”
[366–368]
Gamburd, Michele Ruth
Review of: Shzr Ee Tan, “Beyond ‘Innocence’: Amis
Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem” [368–370]
Ingram, Catherine
Review of: Erik Harms, “Saigon’s Edge: On the
Margins of Ho Chi Minh City” [371–372]
Firpo , Christina
Asian Ethnology [formerly Asian Folklore Studies]
Number 72, Volume 1, 2013
Editors’ Introduction [1–2]
Korom, Frank J., and Benjamin Dorman
Baijie and the Bai: Gender and Ethnic Religion in
Dali, Yunnan [3–31]
Bryson, Megan
Confrontation and Compromise: Middle-Class
Matchmaking in Twenty-First Century South India
[33–53]
Wilson, Nicole A.
“Tsuchigumo sōshi”: The Emergence of a
Shape-Shifting Killer Female Spider [55–83]
Reider, Noriko T.
Modernist Iconoclasm, Resilience, and Divine Power
among the Mangghuer of the Northeast Tibetan Plateau
[85–117]
Roche, Gerald, and Wen Xiangcheng
Field Note: Musical Instruments used in Rituals of
the Alak in Laos [119–142]
Jähnichen, Gisa
Review of: Marta E. Hanson, “Speaking of Epidemics
in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographical
Imagination in Late Imperial China” [143–144]
Yang, Bin
Review of: Stephan Feuchtwang, “The Anthropology of
Religion, Charisma and Ghosts: Chinese Lessons for
Adequate Theory” [145–146]
Menheere, Yves
Review of: Zhongguo minjian wenyi xiehui zhubian
中国民间文艺协会主编 (China Folk Arts Society, ed.),
“Yalu Wang: Han Miao duizhao”
亚鲁王—汉苗对照 (King of Yalu: Han and Miao
bilingual text) and “Yalu Wang: Tuban bufen”
亚鲁王—图版部分 (King of Yalu: Photograph section)
[147–151]
Bender, Mark
Review of: Matthew Rahaim, “Musicking Bodies:
Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music” [151–154]
Beck, Guy L.
Review of: Karen Pechilis, “Interpreting Devotion:
The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of
India” [154–158]
DeNapoli, Antoinette E.
Review of: Kelly Pemberton, “Women Mystics and Sufi
Shrines in India” [158–160]
Umashankar, Rachana Rao
Review of: Steve Rabson, “The Okinawan Diaspora in
Japan: Crossing the Borders Within” [163–164]
Yano, Christine R.
Review of: Barbara R. Ambros, “Bones of Contention:
Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan”
[165–167]
Kondo, Shiaki
Review of: Sarinda Singh, “Natural Potency and
Political Power: Forests and State Authority in
Contemporary Laos” [168–170]
Keola, Souknilanh
Review of: Xavier Romero-Frias, collector and
trans., “Folk Tales of the Maldives” [170–172]
Haring, Lee
Review of: Andrew N. Weintraub, ed., “Islam and
Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia” [173–175]
Clark, Marshall
Review of: Clare E. Harris, “The Museum on the Roof
of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation
of Tibet” [175–178]
Klieger, P. Christiaan
Review of: Paul G. Hackett, “Theos Bernard, The
White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious
Life” [178–180]
Korom, Frank J.
Review of: Marietta Kind, “The Bon Landscape of
Dolpo: Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Biographies and the
Emergence of Bon” [181–183]
McKay, A. C.
Review of: Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, “Sound
and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of
Sanskrit Hinduism” [161–162]
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