Book Reviews—South Asia
Mukkuvar Women: Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. By Kalpana Ram. London and New Jersey: Zed Press, 1991. xix, 216 pp.
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Accomplishing the Accomplished: The Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Sankara. By Anantanand Rambachan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xii, 181 pp. $15.00. - On Being and What There Is: Classical Vaisesika and the History of Indian Ontology. By Wilhelm Halbfass. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. viii, 303 pp. $19.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 762-763
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Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village. By Santi Rozario. London and New Jersey: Zed Press, 1992. xii, 200 pp. $39.95. - The Womb of Mind: A Sociological Exploration of the Status-Experience of Women in Delhi. By Renuka Singh. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt., Ltd., 1990. 236 pp. Rs. 225.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 763-765
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Baluchistan (Pakistan): Its Society, Resources and Development. By Akhtar Husain Siddiqi. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, xviii, 346 pp. $38.50.
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Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta. By Hilary Standing. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. x, 198 pp. $16.95. - Women and Fertility in Bangladesh. By Alia Ahmed. New Delhi, Newbury Park, and London: Sage Publications, 1991. 184 pp. $27.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 766-768
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Perspectives on Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict in South Asia. Edited by Raju G. C. Thomas. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992. x, 422 pp. $42.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 768-769
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Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. x, 448 pp.
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Society and Exchange in Nias. By Andrew Beatty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xii, 322 pp. $76.00.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 771-772
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Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines. By H. W. Brands. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 384 pp. $28.00.
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Burma: The Next Killing Fields? By Alan Clements. Berkeley: Odonian Press, 1992. 95 pp. $5.00.
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The Breakdown of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance, 1970–1979. By Anne Gilks. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992. vii, 270 pp. $17.00.
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Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia. By Mattiebelle Gittinger and H. Leedom LeffertsJr. Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1992. 264 pp.
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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942–1992. By Jane Hamilton-Merritt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xviii, 608 pp. $29.95.
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Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Vakgroup Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 1992.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 780-781
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Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia. Edited by Frans Hüsken and Jeremy Kemp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1991. 221 pp.
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Fragmented Vision: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia. Edited by Joel S. Kahn and Francis Loh Kok Wah. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. vi, 327 pp. $35.00.
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Women and Culture: Between Malay Adat and Islam. By Wazir Jahan Karim. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. xv, 255 pp. $34.95.
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From Marcos to Aquino: Local Perspectives on Political Transition in the Philippines. Edited by Benedict J. Kerkvliet and Resil B. Mojares. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. 326 pp. $15.95.
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Manila Workers' Unions, 1900–1950. By Melinda Tria Kerkvliet. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1992. xi, 195 pp. $12.50. Distributed by Cellar Book Store.
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River Kwai Railroad: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad. By Clifford Kinvig. London: Brassey's Press, 1992. 226 pp. $29.95.
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