ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 80 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 80 (2)

This volume contains

Writing Balti(ness): The Challenge of Nation-Building in a Geopolitically Contested Region Carmen Brandt

Fertile Tattoos: Play, Embodiment, and the Transition to Womanhood in Drung Female Facial Tattooing Stéphane Gros

Between Devotee and God: The Study of Atmosphere in a South Indian Temple Festival Frank Heidemann

Jiangyong “Women’s Script” in the Era of ICH: Channels of Development and Transmission He Yan

The Nechung Oracle and the Construction of Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora Pema Choedon

Becoming Christian to Remain Chinese: Language Socialization and Identity Formation at the Chinese Christian Church of Berlin Jingyang Yu

Reviews/China

Liz P. Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China James Flowers

Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise Andrew B. Kipnis

Mayfair Yang, Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China Xiaosu Sun

Veronica S. W. Mak, Milk Craze: Body, Science, and Hope in China Thomas David DuBois

Reviews/India

Sanjukta Sunderason, Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization Dilip M. Menon

Rimli Bhattacharya, The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation Mrinalini Atrey

Reviews/Japan

Erica Baffelli and Ian Reader, Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese “New” Religion: Transformations and the Founder Tim Graf

Patrick W. Galbraith, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan Nikolina Dobreva

Noriko Tsunoda Reider, Mountain Witches: Yamauba W. Puck Brecher

John W. Traphagan, Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan Duccio Gasparri

Reviews/Southeast Asia

Will Smith, Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands Macario B. Lacbawan

Chee-Beng Tan, Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities Jean DeBernardi

Reviews/Taiwan

Kirk A. Denton, The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post–Martial Law Taiwan Joseph Tse-Hei Lee