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Editors' Note
Benjamin Dorman and Frank J. Korom
Phi Muangs: Khamti Forces of Place in Arunachal Pradesh
Nicolas Lainé
The Intertextuality of Sgrung and the Question of Social Authority
Valentina Punzi
Bollywood Is Bangladeshi!: Hindi Film and the Formation of a Middle-Class Audience
Harisur Rahman
Introduction to the Special Forum: Agrarian Change in Zomia: Social, Religious, and Cosmological Dimensions of Swidden Cultivation and Upland Livelihoods in the Consolidation of the “Modern” State
Deborah E. Tooker and Ian G. Baird
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Shifting State-Society Relations and Emerging Resource Frontiers in China’s Southwest Borderlands
Jianhua Wang (Nyawrbyeivq Aryoeq) and Micah F. Morton (corresponding author)
Who Owns the Hills?: Ownership, Inequality, and Communal Sharing in the Borderlands of India
Erik de Maaker
Thomas A. Borchert, Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Colin Mackerras
John Robert Shepherd, Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China
Colin Mackerras
Kate McDonald, Placing Empire: Travel and Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
Daniel A. Métraux
Salah Punathil, Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India
Dennis B. McGilvray
Hyun Gwi Park, The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
Daniel A. Métraux
Jonathan Rigg, More Than Rural: Textures of Thailand’s Agrarian Transformation
Benjamin D. Huffman
R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn, eds., Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives
Tyler A. Lehrer
Kyoim Yun, The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island
Merose Hwang
Frédéric Keck, Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts
John P. DiMoia
Jane E. Caple, Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
Dáša Pejchar Mortensen
Stéphane Gros, ed., Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Per Kværne