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Volume 54 - Issue 4 - November 1995

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Book Reviews—South Asia

India: Macroeconomics and Political Economy, 1964–1991. By Vijay Joshi and I. M. D. Little. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 397 pp. $21.00 (cloth).
Vaman Rao
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26 March 2010, pp. 1134-1135
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The Slate of Life: More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India. Edited by Kali for Women. 2nd ed. New York: Feminist Press, 1994. 131 pp. $12.95 (paper).
Lakshmi Holmström
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26 March 2010, pp. 1135-1136
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Hindu Nationalists in India: The Rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party. By Yogendra K. Malick and V. B. Singh. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994. x, 262 pp. $39.95 (paper). - The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism. By J. E. Llewellyn. Delhi: Manohar, 1993. vii, 288 pp. $22.00.
Douglas R. Spitz
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26 March 2010, pp. 1137-1138
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From Vedic Altar to Village Shrine: Towards an Interface between Indology and Anthropology. Edited by Yasuhiko. Nagano and Yasuke Ikari. Senri Ethnological Series No. 46. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1993. 320 pp.
Fred W. Clothey
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26 March 2010, pp. 1139-1140
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Life and Thought of Śankarācārya. By Govind Chandra Pande. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1994. xv, 384 pp $22.00 (cloth). - Shankara and Indian Philosophy. By Natalia Isayeva. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. 285 pp $44.50 (cloth).
Eliot Deutsch
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26 March 2010, pp. 1140-1142
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The Cilappatikaram of llanko Atikal: An Epic of South India. Translated by R. Parthasarathy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xix, 419 pp $17.50 (cloth).
David C. Buck
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26 March 2010, pp. 1142-1143
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Unbroken Landscape: Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500. By Frank Perlin. Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, 1994. xiv, 315 pp $89.95 (cloth). - Power, Administration and Finance in Mughal India. By John F. Richards. Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, 1993. viii, 310 pp $87.95 (cloth).
Andre Wink
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Indochine la colonisation ambiguë (1858-1954). By Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Paris: Editions la decouverte, 1995. 427 pp.
John K. Whitmore
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26 March 2010, pp. 1147-1148
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The Cry and the Dedication. By Carlos Bulosan. Edited with an introduction by E. San JuanJr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xxxvi, 305 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). - On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan. Edited by E. San Juan Jr Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xi, 221 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
S. F. Chung
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26 March 2010, pp. 1148-1149
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The Karen Drums of Burma: Types, Icongraphy, Manufacture and Use. By Richard M. Cooler. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xx. 233 pp. $137.25
Robert L. Brown
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26 March 2010, pp. 1150-1151
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The Nation and Economic Growth: The Philippines and Thailand. By Yoshihara Kunio. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii, 277 pp. $45.00
Danny Unger
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26 March 2010, pp. 1151-1152
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Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641–1795. By Dianne Lewis. Southeast Asia Series no. 96, Monographs in International Studies. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. xiiii, 160 pp. $18.00 (paper).
Leigh Wright
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26 March 2010, pp. 1153-1154
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The Fifth Tiger: A Study of Thai Development Policy. By Robert J. Muscat. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xv, 339 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).
Richard F. Doner
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A History of Brunei. By Graham Saunders. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xx, 212 pp. $39.95.
Donald E. Brown
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26 March 2010, pp. 1156-1157
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Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins. Edited by Takeshi Shiraishi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. 153 pp. $14.00.
Kathryn Marshall
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26 March 2010, pp. 1157-1158
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Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. By Robert L. Winzeler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi, 172 pp. $54.95.
Douglas Raybeck
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The Journal's August 1995 issue (54.3) carried an error in Brian Woodall's review of Albrecht Rothacher's The Japanese Power Elite, pp. 223–24. Paragraph 1, line 6 reads “…with some ¥400 elderly men…” The yen sign should not have appeared in the text.

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J. Henry Korson 1930–1995
Thomas E. Korson
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Volume 54 - Issue 4 - November 1995

Book Reviews—South Asia

India: Macroeconomics and Political Economy, 1964–1991. By Vijay Joshi and I. M. D. Little. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii, 397 pp. $21.00 (cloth).

The Slate of Life: More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India. Edited by Kali for Women. 2nd ed. New York: Feminist Press, 1994. 131 pp. $12.95 (paper).

From Vedic Altar to Village Shrine: Towards an Interface between Indology and Anthropology. Edited by Yasuhiko. Nagano and Yasuke Ikari. Senri Ethnological Series No. 46. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1993. 320 pp.

The Cilappatikaram of llanko Atikal: An Epic of South India. Translated by R. Parthasarathy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xix, 419 pp $17.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Indochine la colonisation ambiguë (1858-1954). By Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery. Paris: Editions la decouverte, 1995. 427 pp.

The Karen Drums of Burma: Types, Icongraphy, Manufacture and Use. By Richard M. Cooler. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xx. 233 pp. $137.25

The Nation and Economic Growth: The Philippines and Thailand. By Yoshihara Kunio. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xvii, 277 pp. $45.00

Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641–1795. By Dianne Lewis. Southeast Asia Series no. 96, Monographs in International Studies. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. xiiii, 160 pp. $18.00 (paper).

The Fifth Tiger: A Study of Thai Development Policy. By Robert J. Muscat. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xv, 339 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

A History of Brunei. By Graham Saunders. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xx, 212 pp. $39.95.

Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins. Edited by Takeshi Shiraishi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. 153 pp. $14.00.

Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. By Robert L. Winzeler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi, 172 pp. $54.95.

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