ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 82 (2)

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Bhojpuri Village Song and the World: Sampling Indian Literature and the Global Field Ian Woolford

Engaged Buddhism in Mountain Monasteries: Templestay as Wellness Tourism in South Korea Kyoim Yun

The Placenta as the Depository of Patriarchal Imagination: Reproductive Experiences in Tokugawa Japan Eiko Saeki

Spectral Encounters on the Sinamale’ Bridge: Affective Infrastructure along a Watery Stretch of the Belt Road Thoiba Saeedh, R. Michael Feener

Savoring Slackness in Kingston: Independent Japanese Tourists and Jamaican Dancehall Paul Hansen

Performing Sacrificial Texts and Reenacting the “Imperial Metaphor” in Rituals of Ancestor Worship in Qimen County, Huizhou, China Wei Liu

Reviews/ Film Review

Coralyn V. Davis, prod., Carlos Gomez, dir., and M. S. Suman, writer. Sama in the Forest Susan S. Wadley

Reviews/ China

Wilt L. Idema and Allard M. Olof, The Legend of Prince Golden Calf in China and Korea Rostislav Berezkin

David George Johnson, The Stage in the Temple: Ritual Opera in Village Shanxi Levi S. Gibbs

Anne E. McLaren, Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and Local in Chinese Regional Literature Mark Bender

Sidney C. H. Cheung, Hong Kong Foodways Veronica Sau-wa Mak

Reviews/ Japan

J. Christian Greer and Michelle K. Oing, Kumano Kodo: Pilgrimage to Powerspots Caleb Carter

Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch, eds., Rethinking Locality in Japan Duccio Gasparri

Reviews/ South Asia

Pushkar Sohoni and Torsten Tschacher, eds., Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora: Beyond Mourning Karen G. Ruffle

Peter Berger, Subaltern Sovereigns: Rituals of Rule and Regeneration in Highland Odisha, India Chris Gregory

Elora Halim Chowdhury, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh Aniket De

Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De, eds., South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters Harisur Rahman

Dolly Kikon, Living with Coal and Oil: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India P. S. Somingam

Douglas Ober, Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India Janice Leoshko

Reviews/ Southeast Asia

Alexander Soucy, Zen Conquests: Buddhist Transformations in Contemporary Vietnam Allison Truitt