ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 72 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 72 (1)

This volume contains 21 articles.

Editors’ Introduction Korom, Frank J., and Benjamin Dorman

Articles

Baijie and the Bai: Gender and Ethnic Religion in Dali, Yunnan Bryson, Megan

Confrontation and Compromise: Middle-Class Matchmaking in Twenty-First Century South India Wilson, Nicole A.

*Tsuchigumo sōshi*: The Emergence of a Shape-Shifting Killer Female Spider Reider, Noriko T.

Modernist Iconoclasm, Resilience, and Divine Power among the Mangghuer of the Northeast Tibetan Plateau Roche, Gerald, and Wen Xiangcheng

Field Note

Musical Instruments used in Rituals of the Alak in Laos Jähnichen, Gisa

Reviews/Books/China

Marta E. Hanson, *Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographical Imagination in Late Imperial China* Yang, Bin

Stephan Feuchtwang, *The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts: Chinese Lessons for Adequate Theory* Menheere, Yves

Zhongguo minjian wenyi xiehui zhubian 中国民间文艺协会主编 (China Folk Arts Society, ed.), *Yalu Wang: Han Miao duizhao* 亚鲁王—汉苗对照 (King of Yalu: Han and Miao bilingual text) and *Yalu Wang: Tuban bufen* 亚鲁王—图版部分 (King of Yalu: Photograph section) Bender, Mark

Reviews/Books/India

Matthew Rahaim, *Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music* Beck, Guy L.

Karen Pechilis, *Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India* DeNapoli, Antoinette E.

Kelly Pemberton, *Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India* Umashankar, Rachana Rao

Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, *Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism* Smith, Frederick M.

Reviews/Books/Japan

Steve Rabson, *The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within* Yano, Christine R.

Barbara R. Ambros, *Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan* Kondo, Shiaki

Reviews/Books/Laos

Sarinda Singh, *Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos* Keola, Souknilanh

Reviews/Books/Maldives

Xavier Romero-Frias, collector and trans., *Folk Tales of the Maldives* Haring, Lee

Reviews/Books/Southeast Asia

Andrew N. Weintraub, ed., *Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia* Clark, Marshall

Reviews/Books/Tibet

Clare E. Harris, *The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet* Klieger, P. Christiaan

Paul G. Hackett, *Theos Bernard, The White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life* Korom, Frank J.

Marietta Kind, *The Bon Landscape of Dolpo: Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Biographies and the Emergence of Bon* McKay, A. C.