ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 72 (2)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 72 (2)

This volume contains 21 articles.

Editors’ Introduction: Performing Identity: Politics and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi, and Andrea Lauser

Articles

Challenging the State by Reproducing its Principles: The Demand for “Gorkhaland” between Regional Autonomy and the National Belonging Wenner, Miriam

Performing the Garo Nation?: Garo Wangala Dancing between Faith and Folklore de Maaker, Erik

Performing Identity: The Transformation of a Tangsa Festival in Assam, Northeast India Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi

The Institutionalization of Tribal Religion: Recasting the Donyi-Polo Movement in Arunachal Pradesh Chaudhuri, Sarit Kumar

Ethnic Conversions and Transethnic Descent Groups in the Assam-Meghalaya Borderlands Ramirez, Philippe

Transcultural Communication and Social Order: Comparisons in Upland Southeast Asia Sprenger, Guido

Evading the State: Ethnicity in Northeast India through the Lens of James Scott Karlsson, Bengt G.

Reviews/Books/General

Frank J. Korom, *The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader* Tangherlini , Timothy R.

Reviews/Books/China

Roel Sterckx, *Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China* Lin, Hang

Jeremy E. Taylor, *Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas: The Amoy-dialect Film Industry in Cold War Asia* Yung, Sai-shing

Reviews/Books/India

Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, *The Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins* Chatterji, Roma

Andrew Alter, *Dancing with Devtās: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India* Wolf, Richard K.

Tamal Krishna Goswami, author, Graham M. Schweig, editor, *A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti: Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada* Bryant, Edwin

Vivek Bald, *Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America* Uddin, Sufia Mendez

Reviews/Books/Indonesia

Patrick Daly, R . Michael Feener, and Anthony S. J. Reid, eds., *From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh* Gamburd, Michele Ruth

Reviews/Books/Korea

Caren Freeman, *Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea* Kim, Eleana

Reviews/Books/Mongolia

Katherine Swancutt, *Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination* King, Matthew

Reviews/Books/Philippines

Geraldine Pratt, *Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love* Gamburd, Michele Ruth

Reviews/Books/Taiwan

Shzr Ee Tan, *Beyond ‘Innocence’: Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem* Ingram, Catherine

Reviews/Books/Vietnam

Erik Harms, *Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City* Firpo , Christina