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Volume 54 - Issue 2 - May 1995

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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Life of the Buddha: Ancient Scriptural and Pictorial Traditions. By Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky. Lanham: University Press of America, 1992. 281 pp. $47.50 (cloth); $24.50 (paper)
Daphne Lange Rosenzweig
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26 March 2010, pp. 599-600
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The Life of a Text; Performing of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. By Philip Lutgendorf. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1991. xvi, 469 pp. $48.00 (cloth).
Velcheru Narayana Rao
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26 March 2010, pp. 600-602
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Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture. By Murray MilnerJr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii, 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Peter J. Claus
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26 March 2010, pp. 602-603
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The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. By David Pinault. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. xiii, 210 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
Azim Nanji
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26 March 2010, pp. 603-605
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Managing Common Pool Resources: Principles and Case Studies. By Katar Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xx, 366 pp. $28.00 (cloth).
Arun Agrawal
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26 March 2010, pp. 605-606
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Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. By Kamala Visweswaran. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xii, 205 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). - Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Edited by Nita Kumar. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. 239 pp. $14.95 (paper).
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
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26 March 2010, pp. 606-608
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S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947–1977. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. ix, 149 pp. $26.00 (cloth). - States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam Movement. By Sumantra Bose. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994. 236 pp. $33.50 (cloth).
Steven Kemper
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26 March 2010, pp. 608-610
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John Stuart Mill and India. By Lynn Zastoupil Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. viii, 280 pp. $39.50 (cloth). - Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918–1964. By Stephen Howe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xvi, 373 pp. $59.00 (cloth).
Dane Kennedy
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26 March 2010, pp. 611-613
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia. By John Bresnan. New York: Council of Foreign Relations, 1994. xiii, 115 pp. $17.95 (paper).
Carmen Barker Lemay
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26 March 2010, p. 613
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Transformation with Industrialization in Peninsular Malaysia. Edited by Harold Brookfield. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxiii, 317 pp. $55.
Thomas R. Leinbach
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26 March 2010, pp. 614-615
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The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia. By David Brown. London and New York: Routledge, Politics in Asia Series, 1994. xxi, 354 pp. $69.95.
Charles Keyes
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26 March 2010, pp. 615-617
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Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. New York: St. Martin' Press, 1994. xiv, 302 pp. $75.
Mary Somers Heidhues
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26 March 2010, pp. 617-618
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The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand, 1980–2015: An Application of the HOMES Household Forecasting Model. Edited by Burn-ham O. Campbell Andrew Mason and Ernesto M. Pernia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xxiv, 384 pp. $19 (paper).
Peter F. Bell
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26 March 2010, pp. 618-620
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Southeast Asia in the World Economy: A Regional Geography. By Chris Dixon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xv, 281 pp.
Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr
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26 March 2010, pp. 620-621
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Village Java Under the Cultivation System, 1830–70. By R. E. Elson. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994. xxiv, 522 pp. $34.95.
Alfons van der Kraan
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26 March 2010, pp. 622-623
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Burmese Crafts: Past and Present. By Sylvia Fraser-Lu. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 371 pp. $150.
Philip Kitley
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26 March 2010, pp. 623-624
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In the Shadow of Change: Women in Indonesian Literature. By Tineke Hellwig. Berkeley: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1994. xiii, 259 pp. $22.00.
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
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26 March 2010, pp. 624-626
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When the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam. By Martha Hess. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. 239 pp. $22.95.
David Hunt
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26 March 2010, pp. 626-628
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Indonesia's New Order: The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Transformation. Edited by Hall Hill. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xxxv, 364 pp. $28.00. - A Nation in Waiting: Indonisia in the 1990s. By Adam Schwarz. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. xiii, 370 pp. $55 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
Daniel S. Lev
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26 March 2010, pp. 628-630
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Historical Dictionary of Malaysia. By Amarjit Kaur. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. xxi, 300 pp. $37.50.
Donna J. Amoroso
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26 March 2010, pp. 630-632
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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Life of the Buddha: Ancient Scriptural and Pictorial Traditions. By Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky. Lanham: University Press of America, 1992. 281 pp. $47.50 (cloth); $24.50 (paper)

The Life of a Text; Performing of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. By Philip Lutgendorf. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1991. xvi, 469 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture. By Murray MilnerJr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii, 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. By David Pinault. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. xiii, 210 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Managing Common Pool Resources: Principles and Case Studies. By Katar Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xx, 366 pp. $28.00 (cloth).

Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. By Kamala Visweswaran. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xii, 205 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). - Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Edited by Nita Kumar. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. 239 pp. $14.95 (paper).

John Stuart Mill and India. By Lynn Zastoupil Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. viii, 280 pp. $39.50 (cloth). - Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918–1964. By Stephen Howe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xvi, 373 pp. $59.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia. By John Bresnan. New York: Council of Foreign Relations, 1994. xiii, 115 pp. $17.95 (paper).

Transformation with Industrialization in Peninsular Malaysia. Edited by Harold Brookfield. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxiii, 317 pp. $55.

The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia. By David Brown. London and New York: Routledge, Politics in Asia Series, 1994. xxi, 354 pp. $69.95.

Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia. By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown. New York: St. Martin' Press, 1994. xiv, 302 pp. $75.

The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand, 1980–2015: An Application of the HOMES Household Forecasting Model. Edited by Burn-ham O. Campbell Andrew Mason and Ernesto M. Pernia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xxiv, 384 pp. $19 (paper).

Southeast Asia in the World Economy: A Regional Geography. By Chris Dixon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xv, 281 pp.

Village Java Under the Cultivation System, 1830–70. By R. E. Elson. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994. xxiv, 522 pp. $34.95.

Burmese Crafts: Past and Present. By Sylvia Fraser-Lu. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiv, 371 pp. $150.

In the Shadow of Change: Women in Indonesian Literature. By Tineke Hellwig. Berkeley: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1994. xiii, 259 pp. $22.00.

When the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam. By Martha Hess. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. 239 pp. $22.95.

Historical Dictionary of Malaysia. By Amarjit Kaur. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. xxi, 300 pp. $37.50.

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