The Constitution and Contestation of Darhad Shaman's Power in Contemporary Mongolia
by Judith Hangartner
May 2010
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This book offers insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia, thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia. By analyzing practices, discourses, and performances in local and national arenas, the author traces the social constitution of the shamans’ inspirational power, examines the shamans’ performance of power during the seance, discusses the economy of reputation of successful shamans, and scrutinizes their legitimizing practices. The study will be welcomed by students of social/cultural anthropology and religious studies with a particular interest in shamanism or ritual studies.
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The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic: Kinship, State and Tribalism
by David Gullette
May 2010
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This book explores the conceptions of genealogy, kinship, and “tribalism” in the intertwined construction of personhood and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic. It makes an important contribution to several theoretical and regional debates by engaging with broader anthropological literature; con-tributing to theories of kinship and the state; and filling a gap in Central/Inner Asian lit-erature by focusing on social relations during a period of political upheaval.
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Russia in Asia: A Record and Study, 1558-1899
by Alexis Krausse
May 2010
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First published in 1943-44, this work traces the successive stages of the growth of Asiatic Russia and describes the policies that have brought it about.
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Representations of Femininity in Contemporary South Korean Women's Literature
by Joanna Elfving-Hwang
May 2010
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This book discusses the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women’s fiction of the 1990s challenge the enduring association of the feminine with domesticity, docility, and passivity.
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The Japanese in War and Peace, 1942-48: Selected Documents from a Translator's In-Tray
by Ian Nish
May 2010
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Ian Nish was a member of the British Occupation Force in Japan as part of the Allied Occupation following the Asia-Pacific War. During the years he was there, he collected a number of documents that throw light on the attitudes of the Japanese people in the last two critical years of the war and the equally critical first two years of the peace. These materials, some reproduced in facsimile, include a miscellaneous assortment of personal documents, propaganda material, military memoranda, and teaching aids. |
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Masanobu Tsuji's Underground Escape
ed. by Nigel Brailey
May 2010
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First published in translation from the Japanese in 1952 and long out of print, Colonel Tsuji’s account of his escape into Thailand from the Japanese surrender in Bangkok in 1945, and then finding his way into China before returning to Japan in 1948, is a remarkable story, which has its place in the military history of the period. Controversially, Tsuji, who, according to Louis Allen, was responsible for “unspeakable atrocities” in Singapore and elsewhere during the Pacific War, is also the author of Singapore: The Japanese Version.
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Key Papers on Chinese Economic History Up to 1949
ed. by Michael Dillon
May 2010
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This two-volume collection brings together and interprets much of the most important and time-tested international scholarship in English across the broad-ranging field of Chinese economic history. Many of the essays, including some from the 1930s and 1940s, were first published in specialist journals, both sinological and economic, and hitherto have not been readily accessible. |
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The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction, 1960-1973
by Julia C. Bullock
May 2010
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The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full decade before the “women’s lib” movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes—the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, “odd bodies,” and female homoeroticism—Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse.
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Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
by Satsuki Kawano
May 2010
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Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have led to a shortage of ceremonial caregivers (most commonly married sons and their wives) to ensure the transformation of the dead into ancestors resting in peace. Consequently, older adults are increasingly uncertain about who will perform memorial rites for them and maintain their graves. In this study, anthropologist Satsuki Kawano examines Japan’s changing death rites from the perspective of those who elect to have their cremated remains scattered and celebrate their return to nature.
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Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans, and Ecological Exchange
by Jennifer Newell
May 2010
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When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left not only a British flag on shore but also three guinea hens, a pair of turkeys, a pregnant cat, and a garden planted with peas for the chiefess Purea. Thereafter, a succession of European captains, missionaries, and others planted seeds and introduced livestock from around the world. In turn, the islanders traded away great quantities of important island resources, including valuable and spiritually significant plants and animals. What did these exchanges mean? What was their impact? The answers are often unexpected. They also reveal the ways islanders retained control over their societies and landscapes in an era of increasing European intervention. Trading Nature explores—from both the European and Tahitian perspective—the effects of “ecological exchange” on one island from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. |
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China's Tibetan Frontiers: Sharing the Contested Ground
by Beth
Meriam
June 2010
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This is the first book in English to explore the shifting political rationales and cultural practices in contemporary Trindu, a remote, nomadic and agricultural county in Yushu Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in the far west of the People’s Republic of China. The author argues that Trindu is intimately bound up with, and has ramifications for, China’s nation-state politics and cannot be understood without primary reference to that politics.
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Tengu: The Shamanic and Esoteric Origins of the Japanese Martial Arts
by Roald
Knutsen
June 2010
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This is the first in-depth study in English to examine the warrior and shamanic characteristics and significance of tengu in the martial art culture (bugei) of Muromachi Japan (1336–1573).
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War, Conflict and Security in Japan and Asia Pacific, 1941-52: The Writings of Louis Allen
by Louis
Allen
June 2010
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It was Louis Allen’s involvement with and work on Japan that dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher, and writer and which received greatest attention internationally.
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Prince and Princess Chichibu: Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds
by Dorothy
Britton
June 2010
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This volume offers invaluable new insights into the controversial lives and history of Prince and Princess Chichibu: two high-profile members of the Japanese imperial family, both before and after the Pacific War. Their lives were lived both above and below “the clouds,” with the princess a commoner in an arranged marriage, and the popular “sporting prince,” dogged by ill health and his association with the Japanese Imperial Army.
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Land: A Novel
by Pak Kyung-Ni
trans. by Agnita Tenant
June 2010
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Land (T’oji) is widely recognized as the most significant work in modern Korean literature. An epic novel in five parts, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of villagers in a traditional Korean farming community. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, a period of turbulent change in Korean history, the villagers are caught up in the struggles between the conservative and modernizing forces of their country.
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