ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 81 (1&2)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 81 (1&2)

This volume contains

Editors’ Note Benjamin Dorman, Frank J. Korom

Articles

Three Trees Make a Mountain: Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam Sara Ann Swenson

Sectarians, Smokers, and Science: The Zhenkongjiao in Malaysia and Singapore Esmond Chuah Meng Soh

From the Margins to Demigod: The Establishment of the Kinnar Akhara in India Daniela Bevilacqua

Cantonese Opera Troupes in Southeast Asia: Political Mobilizations, Diaspora Networks, and Operatic Circulation, 1850s–1930s Beiyu Zhang

Living the Life of My Choice: Lifestyle Migrants in Rural Japan Balancing between Local Commitment and Transnational Cosmopolitanism Susanne Klien

Paintings, Painters, and Patrons: Institutional Interventions in the Lives of Cheriyal Paintings Anaïs Da Fonseca

Contested Devotion: The Praise of Sufi Saints in Three Māla Pāṭṭŭs M. Keely Sutton

Moving the Living and the Dead: The Power of Bronze Drums in Contemporary Ethnic China William David Nitzky

Hikketsu no monogatari (A Tale of Calligraphy Brushes): A Humorous Medieval Instructional Tale—Annotated Translation, with Translator’s Introduction Noriko Tsunoda Reider

Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China Lijun Zhang, Jason Baird Jackson, C. Kurt Dewhurst, and Jon Kay

Documentary Note

Craft and Fieldwork: Making Baskets, Mallets, and Videos in Upland Southwest China Jon Kay

Research Notes

The Floating Existence of Taraṅgas: Appraising Local Deities and Social Meaning-Making on the Western Coast of India Durga Kale

Sri Lanka’s Ahikuntika and Kuravar Communities: Language and Culture Steven Bonta

Reviews/General

Duncan McDuie-Ra, Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots Paul Hansen

Reviews/China

Stephan Feuchtwang, ed., Handbook on Religion in China Jacob F. Tischer

Hon-Lun Helan Yang, Simo Mikkonen, and John Winzenburg, Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai Andrew David Field

Fang Xu, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China Eric S. Henry

Chen Ajiang, Cheng Pengli, and Luo Yajuan, eds., translated by Jennifer Holdaway, Qi Di, and Wei Han, Chinese “Cancer Villages”: Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health Yue Liang

Eric S. Henry, The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China Fang Xu

David R. Stroup, Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims Kelly Hammond

Reviews/India

Nicole Karapanagiotis, Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement Jeffery D. Long

Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani, Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora Robin Rinehart

Parul Bhandari, Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage Pritika Sharma

Reviews/Japan

Susanne Klien, Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-Growth Society John Mock

M. W. Shores, The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo Simon Regin Paxton

Horie Takashi, Tanaka Hikaru, and Tanno Kiyoto, Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan Gowoon Jung and Soyoung Song

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan Nora Kottmann

Dreux Richard, Every Human Intention: Japan in the New Century Vivian Shaw

Felicia Katz-Harris ed., Yōkai: Ghosts, Demons & Monsters of Japan Saitō Takashi

Reviews/South Korea

Hyung-A Kim, Korean Skilled Workers: Towards a Labor Aristocracy Daesung Kwon

Reviews/Southeast Asia

Edyta Roszko, Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam Aike P. Rots

Holly High, Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village Rosalie Stolz

Reviews/Tibet

Franz Xaver Erhard and Thomas Wild, Drumze: Metamorphosen des tibetischen Teppichs Daniel Wojahn