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Editors' Note
Benjamin Dorman & Frank J. Korom
Digital Guru: Embodiment, Technology, and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge in Kerala
Finnian M. M. Gerety
Contested Utopias: Civilization and Leisure in the Meiji Era
W. Puck Brecher
Trance Mediumship Takes the Stage: Reenactment and Heritagization of the Sacred in Urban Hà Nội
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
The Phenomenology of Supernatural Belief: The Ravenous Spirit (phii pob) Belief Tradition in Contemporary Northeast Thailand
Kanya Wattanagun
Jakh, Jacks, or Yakṣa?: Multiple Identities and Histories of Jakh Gods in Kachchh
Anisha Saxena
Out of Space: Christian Deterritorialization and Space Production in Yunnan
Gideon Elazar
“My Beautiful Face, the Enemy of Dharma Practice”: Variations in the Textual History of Nangsa Ohbum
Kati Fitzgerald
Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers, and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Practices of “Heterodox” Bengali Lineages
Carola Erika Lorea
The Hunt for a Location: Narratives on the Foundation of Cities in South and Southeast Asia
Pushkar Sohoni
Performing Differences: Pitcherdom and Water-Testing the Vendors
Yuanhao Zhao
Local Agricultural Knowledge as Time Manipulation: Paddy Field Farmers after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011
Hiroki Takakura
The Orang Batin/Orang Sakai in the Malay Kingdom of Siak Sri Indrapura
Nathan Porath
Paying for Salvation: The Ritual of “Repaying the Loan for Life” and Telling Scriptures in Changshu, China
Rostislav Berezkin
Rethinking the “Magic State” in China: Political Imagination and Magical Practice in Rural Beijing
Xing Wang
A Tibetan Catholic Christmas in China: Ethnic Identity and Encounters with Ritual and Revitalization
Brendan A. Galipeau
From “Fǭn ngīeo” to “Selemao”: The Transformation of a Tai Yai Folk Melody
Jarun Kanchanapradit
Gurukulam (Jillian Elizabeth & Neil Dalal, Directors)
Steven E. Lindquist (Southern Methodist University)
Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus (Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger, eds.)
Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester)
The Lisu: Far from the Ruler (Michele Zack)
Mark Bender (The Ohio State University )
Figures in Buddhist Modernity in Asia (Jeffrey Samuels, Justin Thomas McDaniel, and Mark Michael Rowe, eds.)
Michele Ruth Gamburd
UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage (Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman)
Gisa Jähnichen
Jesus in Asia (R. S. Sugirtharajah)
Christie Chui-Shan Chow
Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, eds.)
Alexandra Kaloyanides
Culture and Value: Tourism, Heritage, and Property (Regina F. Bendix)
Timothy Tangherlini
China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church (Anthony E. Clark, ed.)
Simeiqi He
Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script (Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge, eds., and trs., with editorial assistance by Wang Yalong)
David L. Rolston
Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland (Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton)
Timothy Thurston
Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Lily Wong)
Tiantian Zheng
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies (Cheng-tian Kuo, ed.)
Scott Pacey
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey)
Pankaj Jain
Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Projit Bihari Mukharji)
Frederick M. Smith (University of Iowa)
Pentecostals, Proselytization and Anti-Christian Violence in India (Chad M. Bauman)
Daniel A. Métraux
Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation (Anand Pandian)
Lakshmi Srinivas
Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City: Hinduism and Urbanization in Jaipur (Yamini Narayanan)
Ian Wilson
Pentecostalism and Politics of Conversion in India (Sarbeswar Sahoo)
Arun W. Jones
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (Radhika Govindrajan)
Anabelle Suitor
Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan (Noriko T. Reider)
Michael R. Bathgate
Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands (Beata Świtek)
Paul Capobianco
Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (Rebecca Corbett)
Etsuko Kato
Transnational Faiths: Latin-American Immigrants and their Religions in Japan (Hugo Córdova Quero and Rafael Shoji, eds.)
Daniel A. Métraux
The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education: Is Japanese Education Really Changing? (John Mock, Hiroaki Kawamura and Naeko Naganuma, eds.)
Michelle Henault Morrone
Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet (Holly Gayley)
Per Kværne
Ritual Innovation: Strategic Interventions in South Asian Religion (Brian K. Pennington and Amy L. Allocco, eds.)
Axel Michaels
Making New Nepal: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics (Amanda Thérèse Snellinger)
Avash Bhandari
Buddhism, Politics, and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka (Benjamin Schonthal)
Tyler A. Lehrer
Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity (Eric J. Pido)
Marco Garrido
The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma (Guillaume Rozenberg, translated by Ward Keeler)
Hiroko Kawanami
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (C. Michele Thompson)
Nathan Porath
Malaysia’s “Original People”: Past, Present, and Future of the Orang Asli (Kirk Endicott, ed.)
Nathan Porath
The Spread of the Korean Language: Through the Korean Diaspora and Beyond (Clare You and Yangwon Ha, eds.)
Sang-Seok Yoon
Passion, Poverty and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads (Wilt L. Idema)
Mei-Ling Chien