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Volume 63 - Issue 1 - February 2004

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film. By Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).
Ketu H. Katrak
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26 February 2007, pp. 218-220
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Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity. By Dorothy M. Figueira. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. viii, 205 pp. $62.50 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).
Brenda E. Brasher
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26 February 2007, pp. 220-222
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At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion. By Lynn Foulston. Brighton and Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. xvi, 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth).
Elaine Craddock
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26 February 2007, pp. 222-224
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The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity. By Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xv, 487 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Abdul Jamil Urfi
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26 February 2007, pp. 224-226
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Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga. By Yohanan Grinshpon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 156 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Lola Williamson
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26 February 2007, pp. 226-227
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Water in Nepal. By Dipak Gyawali. Lalitpur: Himal Books and Panos South Asia, with Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, 2001. xiv, 280 pp. $25.00 (cloth).
Richard P. Tucker
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26 February 2007, pp. 227-229
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Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development, and Meanings. By Julia A. B. Hegewald. Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, no. 24. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xiii, 266 pp. $124.00 (cloth).
Ebba Koch
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26 February 2007, pp. 229-230
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Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation?. Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 352 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
Farina Mir
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26 February 2007, pp. 230-232
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Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy. By Anirudh Krishna. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xii, 252 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).
Amita Shastri
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26 February 2007, pp. 232-233
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Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India. By Prema A. Kurien. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xi, 217 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Frank J. Korom
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26 February 2007, pp. 233-235
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Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives, and Dance. By Nita Mathur. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2002. ix, 225 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Malini Srirama
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26 February 2007, pp. 235-236
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Everyday Life in South Asia. Edited by Diane P. Mines Sarah Lamb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. viii, 504 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Elaine Craddock
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26 February 2007, pp. 236-238
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Islam and Muslim History in South Asia. By Francis Robinson. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
Jeffrey M. Diamond
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26 February 2007, pp. 238-240
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Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium; A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers. Edited by Muneeza Shamsie. Karachi and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxiv, 434 pp. $18.00 (cloth).
Francine S. Weinbaum
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26 February 2007, pp. 240-242
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The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature. By Rajul Sogani. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix, 265 pp. Rs 525 (cloth).
Sarah Lamb
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26 February 2007, pp. 242-243
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Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata. By Nicholas Sutton. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2000. xxii, 477 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Alf Hiltebeitel
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26 February 2007, pp. 243-245
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Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning. By T. M. Thomas Isaac Richard W. Franke. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xvi, 241 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
René Véron
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26 February 2007, pp. 245-247
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian Presiden; A View from the Inside. By Greg Barton. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press; Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002. 414 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
William H. Frederick
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26 February 2007, pp. 247-249
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Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts, … Showbiz. By James A. Boon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. xxi, 361 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
J. Joseph Errington
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26 February 2007, pp. 249-251
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Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines. By S. Buenconsejo José. New York: Routledge, 2002. xix, 424 pp. $100.00 (cloth).
Sally Ann Ness
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26 February 2007, pp. 251-253
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Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film. By Rachel Dwyer and Divia Patel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity. By Dorothy M. Figueira. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. viii, 205 pp. $62.50 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).

At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion. By Lynn Foulston. Brighton and Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. xvi, 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity. By Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. xv, 487 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga. By Yohanan Grinshpon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 156 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Water in Nepal. By Dipak Gyawali. Lalitpur: Himal Books and Panos South Asia, with Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, 2001. xiv, 280 pp. $25.00 (cloth).

Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development, and Meanings. By Julia A. B. Hegewald. Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, no. 24. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xiii, 266 pp. $124.00 (cloth).

Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation?. Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 352 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy. By Anirudh Krishna. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. xii, 252 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India. By Prema A. Kurien. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. xi, 217 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives, and Dance. By Nita Mathur. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2002. ix, 225 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Everyday Life in South Asia. Edited by Diane P. Mines Sarah Lamb. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. viii, 504 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Islam and Muslim History in South Asia. By Francis Robinson. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium; A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers. Edited by Muneeza Shamsie. Karachi and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxiv, 434 pp. $18.00 (cloth).

The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature. By Rajul Sogani. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ix, 265 pp. Rs 525 (cloth).

Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata. By Nicholas Sutton. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2000. xxii, 477 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning. By T. M. Thomas Isaac Richard W. Franke. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xvi, 241 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian Presiden; A View from the Inside. By Greg Barton. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press; Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002. 414 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts, … Showbiz. By James A. Boon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. xxi, 361 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines. By S. Buenconsejo José. New York: Routledge, 2002. xix, 424 pp. $100.00 (cloth).

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