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Volume 53 - Issue 1 - February 1994

Book Reviews—Korea

Two Koreas in Development: A Comparative Study of Principles and Strategies of Capitalist and Communist Third World Development. By Byoung-Lo Philo Kim. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction publishers, 1992. xix, 240 pp.

Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Vol. 1: From Early Times to the Sixteenth Century. Edited by Peter H. Lee. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xxiv, 750 pp. $49.50.

U.S.-Korean Relations from Liberation to Self-Reliance: The Twenty-Year Record. By Donald Stone Macdonald. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1992. xvii, 345 pp. $48.50.

Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and Change in Korea. By John E. Turner Vicki L. Delsi Dong Suh Bark and Hoon Yu. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1993. 368 pp. $59.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature. In Honor of K. Paramasivam. Edited By Norman Cutler and Paula Richman. Manohar: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1992. viii, 151 pp. $16.00.

Broken Promises: Popular Protest, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar, 1935–1946. By Vinita Damodaran. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiii, 398 pp. $35.00.

Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. By Carl W. Ernst. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. xxxi, 381 pp.

Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System 1764–1857. By Michael H. Fisher. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv, 516 pp. $26.00.

Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and Its Hierarchy of Ritual. By David N. Gellner. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambrige: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxiii, 428 pp. $79.95.

Food, Health, and Survival in India and Developing Countries. By Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiii, 216 pp. $24.00.

Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests in Jharkand. By Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1991. vi, 187 pp.

All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis. By Stanley N. Kurtz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xv, 306 pp. $45.00.

Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology. Edited by T. S. Maxwell. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 252 pp., 80 plates.

High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. By Sherry B. Ortner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. xxiv, 245 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

War in High Himalaya: The Indian Army in Crisis, 1962. By General D. K. Palit. London: Hurst & Company, 1992. xvi, 450 pp. $49.95.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume III: Araṇyakāṇḍa. Introduction, translation, and annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Edited by Robert P. Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. viii, 394 pp. $65.00.

Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India. By Avril Ann Powell. London Studies on South Asia, No. 7. Surry: Curzon Press Ltd., 1993. x, 339 pp. $35.00.

Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nāyaka Period Tamil Nadu. By Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subramanyam. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. 4 maps, 16 photos, xix, 349 pp. $39.95.

Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text. By Paula Richman. Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1988. Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series 12. xii, 272 pp.

Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting: Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka. By R. L. Stirrat. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, No. 87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xviii, 231 pp. $59.95.

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