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Volume 42 - Issue 4 - August 1983

Book Reviews—Japan

Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes, Notes, References, Index. $34.50.

Kuniyoshi, The Warrior Prints. By B. W. Robinson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982. 208 pp. Map, Plates, Catalogue, Signatures, Glossary, Bibliography, List of Illustrations, Index of Characters Portrayed. $55.

Popular Disturbances in Postwar Japan. By Yoshio Sugimoto. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1981. vii, 208 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, References, Index. N.p.

Sogo Shosha: The Vanguard of the Japanese Economy. By Yoshihara Kunio. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. ix, 358 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $24.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

Korean Public Bureaucracy. Edited by Bun-Woong Kim and Wha-Joon Rho. Seoul: Koybo Publishing, 1982. 387 pp. General Index. $10 (paper).

Korean and Japanese Women: An Analytic Bibliographical Guide. By Hesung Chung Koh. With contributions by Maureen Donovan, Kathleen Molony, and the HRAF Korea Projects Staff. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. xiii, 904 pp. Tables, Maps, Appendixes, Indexes. $65 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xvii, 275 pp. Appendixes, List of Works Consulted, Index. $37.

India in Axis Strategy: Germany, Japan, and Indian Nationalists in the Second World War. By Milan Hauner. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981. 631 pp. Chronology, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. DM 230 (U.S. $115). (Distributed by Mary S. Rosenberg, Inc., New York.)

Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective. By Donald L. Horowitz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. xiv, 221 pp. Appendix, Index. N.p.

Sikh Studies: Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Tradition. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and N. Gerald Barrier. Berkeley: Religious Studies Series, Graduate Theological Union, 1979. 213 pp. Select Bibliography, Notes on the Contributors, Index. N.p.

Migration and Ethnicity in Urban India: Kerala Migrants in the City of Madras, 1870–1970. By Susan Lewandowski. New Delhi: Manohar, 1980. ix, 215 pp. Figures, Tables, Select Bibliography, Index. $18 (cloth). (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Indian Buddhism: A Survey with Bibliographical Notes. By Hajime Nakamura. Japan: Kufs Publication, 1980. 343 pp. Addenda et Corrigenda, Abbreviations and Periodicals, Index. N.p.

South Asian Civilizations: A Bibliographic Synthesis. By Maureen L. P. Patterson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xxxvii, 703 pp. Author Index, Subject Index. $50 (cloth).

Patterns of Change in the Nepal Himalaya. By Mark Poffenberger. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981. vi, 105 pp. Bibliography, Index. $15.50 (cloth).

The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 1: C. 1200–c. 1750. Edited by Tappan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xvi, 505 pp. Bibliography, Appendix, Index. $79.50 (cloth).

Women of South Asia: A Guide to Resources. By Carol Sakala. Foreword by Maureen L. P. Patterson. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International, 1980. xviii, 517 pp. Author Index, Subject Index. $25 (cloth); $15 (paper).

Sankara on the Yoga-Sūtra-s (Volume I: Samādhi): The Vivaraṇa Subcommentary to Vyāsa-bhāṣya on the Yoga-Sūtra-s of Patanjali: Samādhipāda. By Sankaracarya; edited and translated by Trevor Leggett. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. xxxii, 178 pp. $30 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—Japan

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