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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - February 1989

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Book Reviews—Japan

Daughters of the Moon. By Victoria V. Vernon. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1987, 245 pp. $12.00.

Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. By D. Eleanor Westney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987, 252 pp.

The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children. By Merry White. New York: The Free Press, 1987. x, 191 pp. $18.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Civil Examinations and the Social Structure in the Early Yi Dynasty Korea: 1392–1600. By Yong-ho Ch'oe. Seoul: The Korean Research Center, 1987. xii, 179 pp.

The Korean Road to Modernization and Development. By Norman Jacobs. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. x, 355 pp. $24.95.

Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life. By Laurel Kendall. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. xiv, 234 pp. $20.00.

Chosŏn Sahoesa Yŏn'gu: Chosŏn Sahoe Ŭi Kujo Wa Sŏnggkyŏk Mil Ku P'yŏngch'ŏn e Kwanhan Yŏn'gu [A study of the Chosŏn social history: The social structure and its characteristics and change]. By Chun-ho Song. Seoul: Ilchogak, 1987. xii, 518 pp. W9,000.

Shamanism: The Spirit World of Korea. Edited by Chai-shin Yu and R. Guisso. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1988. 179 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Concept of an Islamic State: An Analysis of the Ideological Controversy in Pakistan. By Ishtiaq Ahmed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. xii, 235 pp. $32.50.

Pāgalāmi: Ethnopsychiatric Knowledge in Bengal. By Deborah P. Bhattacharyya. Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series, 11. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986. vi, 216 pp. $14.50 (paper).

Crisis of the Raj: The Revolt of 1857 Through British Lieutenants' Eyes. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. Hanover, N. H: University Press of New England, 1986. viii, 346 pp. $19.95.

India and the Romantic Imagination. By John Drew. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. viii, 305 pp. $22.95.

A South Indian Subcaste: Social Organization and Religion of the Pramalai Kallar. By Louis Dumont. Translated by Michael Moffatt L. Morton and A. Morton. Edited by Michael Moffatt. French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society, no. 1. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986. xxiv, 502 pp. $29.95.

The Cult of Draupadī. Vol. 1: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kurukṣetra. By Alf Hiltebeitel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxvi, 487 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America. By Joan M. Jensen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. x, 350 pp. $32.50.

At Home in India: A Restatement of Indian Muslims. By Salman Khurshid. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1986. x, 216 pp.

India's Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society Relations. Edited by Atul Kohli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xvi, 334 pp. $37.50.

Essays in the Social History of Modern India. By Ravinder Kumar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. viii, 306 pp. $29.95.

The Heart Sutra Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries. By Donald S. LopezJr. SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. 230 pp.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. 2: Ayodhyākāṇḍa. Introduction and translation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xviii, 558 pp. $60.00.

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