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ISSN 1882-6865
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Vol. 77, Issue 1&2, 2018November 30, 2018 JST

Performing Differences: Pitcherdom and Water-Testing the Vendors

Yuanhao Zhao,

Articles in Vol. 77, Issue 1&2, 2018

Vol. 77, Issue 1&2, 2018
  • AE 77-1&2 Table of Contents
    Benjamin DormanFrank J. Korom
  • Editors' Note
    Benjamin DormanFrank J. Korom
  • Digital Guru: Embodiment, Technology, and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge in Kerala
    Finnian M. M. Gerety
  • Contested Utopias: Civilization and Leisure in the Meiji Era
    W. Puck Brecher
  • Trance Mediumship Takes the Stage: Reenactment and Heritagization of the Sacred in Urban Hà Nội
    Gertrud Hüwelmeier
  • The Phenomenology of Supernatural Belief: The Ravenous Spirit (phii pob) Belief Tradition in Contemporary Northeast Thailand
    Kanya Wattanagun
  • Jakh, Jacks, or Yakṣa?: Multiple Identities and Histories of Jakh Gods in Kachchh
    Anisha Saxena
  • Out of Space: Christian Deterritorialization and Space Production in Yunnan
    Gideon Elazar
  • “My Beautiful Face, the Enemy of Dharma Practice”: Variations in the Textual History of Nangsa Ohbum
    Kati Fitzgerald
  • Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers, and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Practices of “Heterodox” Bengali Lineages
    Carola Erika Lorea
  • The Hunt for a Location: Narratives on the Foundation of Cities in South and Southeast Asia
    Pushkar Sohoni
  • Performing Differences: Pitcherdom and Water-Testing the Vendors
    Yuanhao Zhao
  • Local Agricultural Knowledge as Time Manipulation: Paddy Field Farmers after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011
    Hiroki Takakura
  • The Orang Batin/Orang Sakai in the Malay Kingdom of Siak Sri Indrapura
    Nathan Porath
  • Paying for Salvation: The Ritual of “Repaying the Loan for Life” and Telling Scriptures in Changshu, China
    Rostislav Berezkin
  • Rethinking the “Magic State” in China: Political Imagination and Magical Practice in Rural Beijing
    Xing Wang
  • A Tibetan Catholic Christmas in China: Ethnic Identity and Encounters with Ritual and Revitalization
    Brendan A. Galipeau
  • From “Fǭn ngīeo” to “Selemao”: The Transformation of a Tai Yai Folk Melody
    Jarun Kanchanapradit
  • Gurukulam (Jillian Elizabeth & Neil Dalal, Directors)
    Steven E. Lindquist (Southern Methodist University)
  • Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus (Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger, eds., )
    Erica Baffelli
  • Figures in Buddhist Modernity in Asia (Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, and Mark Michael Rowe, eds.)
    Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • The Lisu: Far from the Ruler (Michele Zack)
    Mark Bender (The Ohio State University)
  • Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie (Philipp Zehmisch, Ursula Münster, Jens Zickgraf, and Claudia Lang. eds.)
    Barbara Götsch
  • UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman)
    Gisa Jähnichen
  • Jesus in Asia (R. S. Sugirtharajah)
    Christie Chui-Shan Chow
  • Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, eds.)
    Alexandra Kaloyanides
  • Culture and Value: Tourism, Heritage, and Property (Regina F. Bendix)
    Timothy Tangherlini
  • China’s Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen (Maris Boyd Gillette)
    Hang Lin
  • China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Anthony E. Clark, ed.)
    Simeiqi He
  • Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script (Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge, eds., and trs., with editorial assistance by Wang Yalong)
    David L. Rolston
  • Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland (Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton)
    Timothy Thurston
  • Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Lily Wong)
    Tiantian Zheng
  • Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies (Cheng-tian Kuo, ed.)
    Scott Pacey
  • Iconic Places in Central Asia: The Moral Geography of Dams, Pastures and Holy Sites (Jeanne Féaux de la Croix)
    Morgan Liu
  • Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey)
    Pankaj Jain
  • Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Projit Bihari Mukharji)
    Frederick M. Smith (University of Iowa)
  • Pentecostals, Proselytization and Anti-Christian Violence in India (Chad M. Bauman)
    Daniel A. Métraux
  • Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation (Anand Pandian)
    Lakshmi Srinivas
  • Say to the Sun, “Don’t Rise,” and to the Moon, “Don’t Set”: Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra (Anne Feldhaus with Ramdas Aktar and Rajaram Zagade, eds. and trans.)
    Ian Wilson
  • Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City: Hinduism and Urbanization in Jaipur (Yamini Narayanan)
    Ian Wilson
  • Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India (Sarbeswar Sahoo)
    Arun W. Jones
  • Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (Radhika Govindrajan)
    Anabelle Suitor
  • Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan (Noriko T. Reider)
    Michael R. Bathgate
  • Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands (Beata Świtek)
    Paul Capobianco
  • Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (Rebecca Corbett)
    Etsuko Kato
  • Transnational Faiths: Latin-American Immigrants and their Religions in Japan (Hugo Córdova Quero and Rafael Shoji, eds.)
    Daniel A. Métraux
  • The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education: Is Japanese Education Really Changing? (John Mock, Hiroaki Kawamura and Naeko Naganuma, eds.)
    Michelle Henault Morrone
  • Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet (Holly Gayley)
    Per Kværne
  • Ritual Innovation: Strategic Interventions in South Asian Religion (Brian K. Pennington and Amy L. Allocco, eds.)
    Axel Michaels
  • Making New Nepal: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics (Amanda Thérèse Snellinger)
    Avash Bhandari
  • Buddhism, Politics, and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka (Benjamin Schonthal)
    Tyler A. Lehrer
  • Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity (Eric J. Pido)
    Marco Garrido
  • The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (Guillaume Rozenberg, translated by Ward Keeler)
    Hiroko Kawanami
  • Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (C. Michele Thompson)
    Nathan Porath
  • Malaysia’s “Original People”: Past, Present, and Future of the Orang Asli (Kirk Endicott, ed.)
    Nathan Porath
  • The Spread of the Korean Language: Through the Korean Diaspora and Beyond (Clare You and Yangwon Ha, eds.)
    Sang-Seok Yoon
  • Passion, Poverty and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads (Wilt L. Idema)
    Mei-Ling Chien
AE
Zhao, Yuanhao. 2018. “Performing Differences: Pitcherdom and Water-Testing the Vendors.” Asian Ethnology 77 (1 & 2): 235–55.
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