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Review of: Viv Golding and Wayne Modest, eds., Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration[406-408] Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2017-11-30 Felicia Katz-Harris
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Review of: Albertus Bagus Laksana, "Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations Through Java" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Joost Cote
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Review of: Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, eds. and trans., "The Rigveda (3 volume set)" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Frederick M. Smith
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Review of: Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli, "Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Hanna H. Kim
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Review of: Wilt L. Idema, The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera Under the Revolution (1949–1956) Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Jonathan P. J. Stock
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Review of: Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg, eds., "Gurus of Modern Yoga" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Beatrix Hauser
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Review of: The Sophia Hilton Foundation of Canada, Animation, Artwork, and Storytelling, "The Legend of Ponnivala" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Anne E. Monius
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Review of: Debbie Lum, "Seeking Asian Female" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 John Melville Bishop
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Buddhist Disaster Relief: Monks, Networks, and the Politics of Religion Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Jeffrey Samuels
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Review of: Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Bostjan Kravanja
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Review of: Jonathan Stockdale, "Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Daniel A. Metraux
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Review of: Robert M. Carmack, "Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Paul Shankman
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Review of: Alex Norman and Carole M. Cusack, eds., "Religion, Pilgrimage, and Tourism" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Frank J. Korom
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Review of: Daniel Bass, "Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Mythri Jegathesan
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Review of: Mark J. Hudson, Ann-elise Lewallen, and Mark K. Watson, eds., "Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Daniel A. Metraux
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Review of: Zoe C. Sherinian, "Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Matthew Allen
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Review of: Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson, "The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Lauren Meeker
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Review of: Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau, eds., "Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life" Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Timothy R. Tangherlin
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Salvage and Salvation: Guest Editors’ Introduction Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Philip Fountain,Levi McLaughlin
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Playful Relief: Folk Performing Arts in Japan after the 2011 Tsunami Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Ken Miichi
This article explores the roles of folk performing arts within the wider context of disaster relief in Japan following the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters. It focuses on two Shinto-based troupes located along the devastated Sanriku coastal region—Kadonaka-gumi Toramai and Unotori Kagura. Both groups perform ludic, entertaining acts as part of their repertoires. Their playful ritual
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Puripetal Force in the Charitable Field Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Jonathan Benthall
This article sets out to clarify the wide range of relationships between religions and humanitarian traditions as ideological movements, taking Islam as a case study. It postulates that the concept of the “sacred,” which is culturally restricted, is a special case of boundary maintenance or “purism.” Metaphorically, “puripetal force” is defined as a tendency common to all ideological systems, a resistance
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Sevā, Hindutva, and the Politics of Post-Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction in Rural Kutch Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Malini Bhattacharjee
The phenomenal rise of Hindu nationalism in Indian politics is in part attributed to its grassroots work centered on a strategy of sevā (social service), which is operated through an array of Hindu nationalist organizations. Participation in service activities paves the way for an embedded form of mobilization that is seemingly unthreatening as it is subtle, nonviolent, and clothed in humanitarianism
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Hard Lessons Learned: Tracking Changes in Media Presentations of Religion and Religious Aid Mobilization after the 1995 and 2011 Disasters in Japan Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Levi Mclaughlin
When religious organizations of all types mobilized relief efforts in the wake of the 17 January 1995 Great Hanshin/Awaji earthquake in western Japan, their contributions failed to translate into favorable media coverage. By contrast, religious aid responses after the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan earthquake disasters attracted a largely positive mainstream media response. This article surveys Japan’s
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Research Note: Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Tim Graf
This research note discusses the challenges of post-disaster filmmaking and introduces two short films about religious responses to the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan that were produced to accompany this special issue. The first clip presents perspectives on the cherry blossom festival at Jōnenji, a Pure Land Buddhist temple that functioned as an evacuation center
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Religion and Reconstruction in the Wake of Disaster Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly
Whether they are one-off, or part of cycles, disasters have exerted profound long-term cultural impacts on societies around the world. The verses quoted above, excerpted from a Malay poem written just after the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatau in 1883, comprise part of one cultural artifact produced in response to natural disaster. More specifically, these lines open a window onto the roles that religion
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Mennonite Disaster Relief and the Interfaith Encounter in Aceh, Indonesia Asian Ethnology Pub Date : 2016-06-30 Philip Fountain
This ethnography examines the disaster relief work of the Mennonite Cen tral Committee (MCC) in Aceh, Indonesia, following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. MCC’s work is informed by the theologies and historical experiences of the North American Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition. An intentional focus of mcc’s work was a substantive interfaith encounter between MCC workers, all of whom identified as Christian