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Volume 57 - Issue 1 - February 1998

Book Reviews—South Asia

Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan. By Jamal Malik. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996. xiv, 359 pp. $42.00(cloth).

Historical Dictionary of India. Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 20. By Surjit Mansingh. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996. xl, 512 pp. $78.00 (cloth).

The Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871–1977. By Tazeen M. Murshid. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvi, 492 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales. By Kirin Narayan, in collaboration with Urmila Devi Sood New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xviii, 262 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict. By Beth Roy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xviii, 231 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Farms and Factories: Social Profile of Large Farmers and Rural Industrialists in West India. By Mario Rutten. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xviii, 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences. Edited by Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia. London and New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., 1995. vi, 342 pp. $55.00.

Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. By Emma Tarlo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxii, 360 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Aryans and British India. By Thomas R. Trautmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiv, 260 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The Sun King's Daughter and King Saṃvaraṇa: Tapatī-Saṃvaraṇam and the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Drama Tradition {Text with Vivaraṇa Commentary). By N. P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan. Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1995. vi, 320 pp. Rs. 300 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Barbara Watson Andaya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xvii, 324 pp. $38.00.

Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine Among the Taman of Borneo. By Jay H. Bernstein. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1997. xiv, 209 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Malaysia and the “Original People”: A Case Study of the Impact of Development on Indigenous Peoples. By Robert Knox Dentan, Kirk Endicott, Alberto G. Gomes, and A. B. Hooker. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. xv, 175 pp.

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines. By Artemio R. Guillermo and May Kyi Win . Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 1997. xi, 363 pp. $62.00.

Managing Marital Disputes in Malaysia: Islamic Mediators and Conflict Resolution in the Syariah Courts. By Sharifah Zaleha Syed Hassan and Sven Cederroth. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press for Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 1997. ii, 253 pp. Distributed by University of Hawaii Press.

The Peoples of Bali. By Angela Hobart, Urs Ramseyer, and Albert Leeman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. xiii, 274 pp. $54.95 - The Spell of Power: A History of Balinese Politics, 1650–1940. By Henk Schulte-Nordholt. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996. ix, 389 pp. NLG60.00.

The Carter Administration and Vietnam. By Steven Hurst. London: Macmillan, 1996. xi, 201 pp. $59–95.

Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1940. By Lenore Manderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xix, 315 pp. $64.95.

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