Asian Anthropology

Articles

Fetuses in a Thai Buddhist Temple as Chaotic Irruption and Public Embarrassment

Erik COHEN

Special Section: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Its Aftermath

The Public Anthropology of Disaster: An Introductory Note

Shinji YAMASHITA

Too Wide, Too Big, Too Complicated to Comprehend: A Personal Reflection on the Disaster That Started on March 11, 2011

Ichiro NUMAZAKI

Tremors in the “Contact Zone” and Challenges to Anthropology Following the Great East Japan Earthquake: The View of a Foreign Resident Anthropologist

Donald C. WOOD

An Anthropological Examination of Differences between the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Great Hanshin Earthquake

Hiroki OKADA

Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake: The Public Use of Anthropological Knowledge

Shuhei KIMURA

Folk Performing Art in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Isao HAYASHI

Reports

Envisioned Belonging: Cultural Differences and Ethnicities in Hong Kong Schooling

Wai-chi CHEE

The Sinulog Festival of Overseas Filipino Workers in Hong Kong: Meanings and Contexts

Enrique G. ORACION

A Neglected Heritage: Towards a Fuller Appreciation of the Landscapes and Lifeways of Hong Kong’s Rice Farming Past

Mick ATHA

Book Reviews

Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group, Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline

John MOCK

Deborah McDowell Aoki, Widows of Japan: An Anthropological Perspective

Lynne Y. NAKANO

Timothy D. Amos, Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan

Joseph HANKINS

Junko Otani, Older People in Natural Disasters

THANG Leng Leng

Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji, eds., Pop Culture and the Everyday in Japan: Sociological Perspectives

Gordon MATHEWS

Eric C. Rath and Stephanie Assmann, eds., Japanese Foodways, Past and Present

Sidney C. H. CHEUNG

Rachael Miyung Joo, Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea

Hsueh-cheng YEN

C. Fred Blake, Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld

TAN Chee-Beng

Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, eds., Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia.

LI Minghuan

Yuk Wah Chan, ed., The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the Boat People

Mandy THOMAS

Vũ Trọng Phųng, Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi

CHENG Sealing

Kirsten W. Endres, Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam

CHAN Yuk Wah

N. J. Enfield, ed., Dynamics of Human Diversity: The Case of Mainland Southeast Asia

A. BAER

Kirsten W. Endres and Andrea Lauser, eds., Engaging the Spirit World: Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

Cynthia CHOU

Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle, eds., Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia

Henry CHAN

John Postill, Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

ZHOU Yongming

Karen Strassler, Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

Heddy Shri AHIMSA-PUTRA

Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose, eds., South Asian Feminisms

Minaz MASTER

Anne M. Rademacher, Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu

John WHELPTON

Gregory Button, Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe

Shu-min HUANG

Articles

Preservation, Conservation and Heritage: Approaches to the Past in the Present through the Built Environment

Gregory ASHWORTH

Comments on the World in Which They Live: A Narrative-Theory Approach to Meaning-Making among Young Girls on Timpaus Island, Indonesia

Harald Beyer BROCH

Anthropology and Diaspora Studies: An Indian Perspective

Ravindra K. JAIN

Reports

Non-Western Peoples as Filipinos: Mediating Notions of “Otherness” in Photographs from the National Geographic Magazine in the Early 20th Century

Carlos P. TATEL, Jr.

Sex Work in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands ZHOU Lei and DUONG Bich Hanh Bullfighting and Meaning in Life in Oki, Japan

Susanne KLIEN

Buddhist Identity and the 1973 Cambodian Buddhist Holy War

Matthew O’LEMMON

Book Reviews

Peter Wynn Kirby, Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan

Corina MONAGIN

Avenell, Simon Andrew, Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

Stephen Robert NAGY

Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller, eds., Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan

Lynne NAKANO

Gabriella Lukács, Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity and Capitalism in 1900s Japan

Benjamin W. M. NG

Gregory S. Poole, The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty

Fiona CREASER

Nancy Abelmann, The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation

Samuel Gerald COLLINS

Avron Boretz, Gods, Ghosts & Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society

Jeff MARTIN

Travis S. K. Kong, Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, and Golden Boy

WONG Wai Ching, Angela

Shao-hua Liu, Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China

CHEN Gang

Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin, Fake Stuff: China and the Rise of Counterfeit Goods

Gordon MATHEWS

Julie Y. Chu, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

SHAO Jing

Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, and Tu Weiming, eds., Governance of Life in the Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life

Mette Halskov HANSEN

Nanlai Cao, Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou

WU Keping

Andrea Whittaker, ed., Abortion in Asia: Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

WANG Danning

Colin Nicholas, Jenita Engi, and Teh Yen Ping, The Orang Asli and the UNDRIP: From Rhetoric to Recognition

A. BAER

Guillaume Rozenberg, Renunciation and Power: The Quest for Sainthood in Contemporary Burma

DUAN Ying

Juliane Schober, Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil Society

Inga GRUß

Alpa Shah, In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

Kyoko MATSUKAWA

Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, “Religion Is Not So Strong Here”: Muslim Religious Life in Khorezm after Socialism

Victor A. VICENTE

Articles

The Rise of Heritage

Peter HOWARD

The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business: Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity through Gendered Service in Tokyo Hostess Clubs

Nana Okura GAGNÉ

Marital Infidelity of Older Japanese Men: Interpretations and Conjectures

Katrina L. MOORE

Reports

Anthropological Ethics in the Shadows: Researching Drug Use and AIDS Interventions in Southwest China

Shao-hua LIU

China’s Ritual Feasts: Elite Men, Social Change, and the Imagination of Rural Authenticity in Luzhou, Sichuan

Brian HARMON

Educating for Inequality: The Experiences of India’s “Indigenous” Citizens

Nandini SUNDAR

Book Reviews

Ekaterina Hertog, Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan

Lynne NAKANO

Christopher Nelson, Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

James E. ROBERSON

Tze-Yue G. Hu, Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building

Kinnia Shuk-ting YAU

Jesook Song, South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

Samuel Gerald COLLINS

Miliann Kang, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work

WANG Danning

Fang-long Shih, Stuart Thompson, and Paul-François Tremlett, eds. Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan

Anru LEE

Yoshiko Nakano, Where There are Asians, There are Rice Cookers—How “National” Went Global via Hong Kong

Veronica MAK

Mei Zhan, Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

CHEN Hua

Marc L. Moskowitz, Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations

J. Lawrence WITZLEBEN

Ritty A. Lukose, Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India

Steve DERNÉ

Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick M. Smith, eds., Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms

Nupur PATHAK

Laura Adams, The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

William JANKOWIAK

Gregory Forth, Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective

Anthony R. WALKER

Anthony Walker, Pika-Pika: The Flashing Firefly: Essays to Honour and Celebrate the Life of Pauline Hetland Walker (1938–2005) by Her Friends in the Arts and Social Sciences

Jennifer ALEXANDER