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Volume 66 - Issue 4 - November 2007

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Book Reviews—Japan

Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond. Edited by Jim Dator, Dick Pratt, and Yongseok Seo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. x, 399 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. By Peter Gabriel. Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2006. 224 pp. $ 48.00 (cloth).

Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 312 pp. $38.00 (cloth).

Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity. By Karen Nakamura. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. 248 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. Edited by Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 1,392 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Together with an Annotated Translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi. By Jonathan W. Best. Harvard East Asian Monographs 246. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University East Asia Center, 2007. 555 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryŏ. Translated and edited by Kevin O'Rourke. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 122 pp. $15.95 (paper).

Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea. By Keith Pratt. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $27.00 (paper). - A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century. By Michael J. Seth. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 257 pp. $27.95 (paper).

Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965–2000. By Melissa L. Wender. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan. By Amineh Ahmed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix, 199 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India. By Sikata Banerjee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ix, 181 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka. By Mahinda Deegalle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xiii, 241 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).

The Life of Hinduism. Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xiii, 324 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, and Controversies. Edited by Sarah Hodges. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. ix, 264 pp. Rs 620 (cloth).

South Asian Folklore: A Handbook. By Frank J. Korom. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. vii, 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan. By Daniel Neuman and Shubha Chaudhuri, with Komal Kothari. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006. xx, 320 pp. $370.00/Rs 1495 (cloth).

Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. By Tejaswini Niranjana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 271 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Construction of Hinduism, 1793–1900. By Geoffrey A. Oddie. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. 376 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $36.95 (paper).

Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. By Laura A. Ring. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 211 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

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