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Volume 65 - Issue 4 - November 2006

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. By Kurtis R Schaeffer.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii, 232 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Earthquaka Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930. By Gregory Clancey. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xiii, 331 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. Edited by Ellen P Conant.. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. xiii, 292 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. By Ikumi Kaminishi. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. x, 246 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age. By Mark McLelland. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. viii, 256 pp. $36.95 (paper); $82.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Ellen Gardner Nakamura. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. viii, 236 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea. By Hazel Smith. Washington, D.C.: University States Institute of Peace Press, 2005. xix, 234 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Korean Landscape Painting: Continuity and Innovation throught the Ages. By Yi Song-mi. Korean Culture Series 4. Elizabeth, N.J.: Hollym International, 2006. vii, 162 pp. $34.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India. By Ravina Aggarwal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. ix, 305 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xv, 325 pp. $23.95 (paper); $84.95 (cloth).

The Rāmāyana Revisited. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii, 378 pp. $35 (cloth).

Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African Indians. Edited by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Edward A Alpers.. Noida, India: Painbow Publishers, 2004. xiv, 226 pp. Rs 250.00 (paper).

Gurus in America. Edited by Thomas A. Forsthoefel and Cynthia Ann Humes. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. viii, 236 pp. $86.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. By Gayatri Gopinath. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xii, 247 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

A Space of Her Own: Personal Narratives of Twelve Women. Edited by Leela Gulati and Kasodhara Bagchi. New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2005. 275 pp. $26.95 (cloth).

A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective. Edited by Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii, 292 pp. Rs 1,040.00 (cloth).

Abiding by Sri Lanks: On Peace, Place and Postcoloniality. By Qadri Ismail. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xlvi, 273 pp. $25.00 (paper); $75.00 (cloth).

Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra. By Patrick Olivelle. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 1131 pp. $99.00 (cloth).

Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History. By Romila Thapar. London and New York: Verso, 2005. xxi, 265 pp. $25.00 (cloth).

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