ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 78 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 78 (1)

This volume contains

Editors' Introduction Benjamin Dorman and Frank J. Korom

Articles

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue: Religious Authority in East Asia: Materiality, Media and Aesthetics Erica Baffelli and Jane Caple

Devotion in Flesh and Bone: The Mummified Corpses of Mount Yudono Ascetics in Edo- Period Japan Andrea Castiglioni

Terry Hu: Writing Her Transition from Actor to New Age Authority in Taiwan Paul J. Farrelly

Religiously Inspired Charitable Organizations (RICOs) and Their Quest for Religious Authority and Recognition in Contemporary China Caroline Fielder

More than Just a Photo?: Aura Photography in Digital Japan Ioannis Gaitanidis

Popular Christianity, Sensation, and *Ling’en* Authority in Contemporary China Mark McLeister

“This Is Not a Powerspot”: Heritage Tourism, Sacred Space, and Conflicts of Authority at Sēfa Utaki Aike P. Rots

Research Note

The Ethnic Identity of Turkmenistan’s Baloch Petr Kokaisl, Pavla Kokaislová

Reviews/General

*Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962* (Bérénice Guyot-Réchard) Alex McKay

*Religions as Brands: New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality* (Jean-Claude Usunier and Jörg Stolz, eds.) Patrick McCartney

*Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures* (Merin Shobhana Xavier) Frank J. Korom

*Place/No Place in Urban Asian Religiosity* (Joanne Punzo Waghorne, ed.) Mugdha Yeolekar

Reviews/China

*The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace* (Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang) Paul Capobianco

*Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City* (Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang, eds.) Adam Yuet Chau

化茧成蝶: 西江苗族妇女文化记忆 [Hua Jian Cheng Die-Xi Jiang Miao Zu Fu Nv Wen Hua Ji Yi; Reinvented as the butterfly-cultural memory of the Miao women of Xijiang] (Xiao Zhang) Yongzhen Jin

*Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China* (Nadine Amsler) Simeiqi He

*Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China* (Ellen Oxfeld) Xu Siyuan

Reviews/India

*The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India* (Sarah Besky) and *Everyday Sustainability, Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling* (Debarati Sen) Philip Lutgendorf

*Social Media in South India: Why We Post* (Shriram Venkatraman) Arvind Rajagopal

*Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India; An Exploration of the Kōlam* (Vijaya Nagarajan) Katie Lazarowicz

*Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers* (Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge, eds.) Aniket De

*Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India* (Sonja Thomas) George Pati

*Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living with Bengali Bauls* (Kristin Hanssen) Carola Erika Lorea

Reviews/Japan

*Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926–1945* (Hikari Hori) Charles Exley

*Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses* (Mark R. Mullins and Koichi Nakano, eds.) John Mock

*The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950* (Brian McVeigh) Clark Chilson

*Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan* (Levi McLaughlin) Ian Reader

*Shinto: A History* (Helen Hardacre) Peter Knecht

Reviews/South Asia

*Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border* (Coralynn V. Davis) Michele Ruth Gamburd

*The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka* (Jim Sykes) Michele Ruth Gamburd

Reviews/Southeast Asia

*Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State* (Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena, eds.) Leah Zani

Reviews/South Korea

*Base Encounters: The U.S. Armed Forces in South Korea* (Elisabeth Schober) Daniel A. Métraux

*Der koreanische Buddhismus im Westen: Studien zur Adaption mit besonderem Blick auf die Lehre von Seon; Meisterin Daehaeng* (Moon-Suk Heo) Martin Baumann

*Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions* (Roald Maliangkay) Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung

Reviews/Tibet

*Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform* (Theresia Hofer) Barbara Gerke

*The Rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: The Blind Warrior of Nyarong* (Yudru Tsomu) Alex McKay