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IIAS Newsletter 32

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Index:

2 Editorial / Maurice Sistermans
2 Director's note of appreciation / Wim Stokhof
  Short Biographies of the IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors
General
1 A Journey of Research in Asia: Crossing between Old and New Nations / Prasenjit Duara (p.1 & 3)
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4 Whither North Korea? / Koen De Ceuster
Imagining Asian Studies
6 The Future of Asian Studies / Frits Staal (p.6-7)
8 The Poverty of Regionalism: Limits in the Study of Southeast Asia / Robert Cribb
9 Writing Indian History from an Asian Perspective / Om Prakash
10 Where From, Who For? Modern Korean Historical Studies / Ken Wells
11 Comprehensive Vietnamese Village Studies: From Ten Years of Research in a Small Village / Yumio SAKURAI
Elderly Care in Indonesia 
12 Understanding Elderly Vulnerability in Indonesia / Philip Kreager
13 Patterns of Kin and Community Support:'Oh, it's nothing, I've just cooked too much' / Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill
14 Pensions for Widows in Indonesia:'You can bite it, but it's tough!' / Ruly Marianti
15 Growing Old in the City / Peter van Eeuwijk
16 A Post-colonial Poet with a Quest for Identity: Interview with Malaysian Literary Laureate, Muhammad Haji Salleh / Mohammad Salleh Yaapar (p.16-17)
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18 India: Caste Stronger than Religion? / Christophe Jaffrelot
19 Cultures of Confinement / Frank Dikötter
20 The Swami and the Sister / Narasingha Sil
21 The Invention of India in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy / Neelam Srivastava
22 Islamic Youth Movements in Indonesia / Ken Miichi
22 Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia-Series / Rogier Busser
23 Liberalism, Communism, Islam:Transnational Motors of 'Nationalist' Struggles in Southeast Asia / John Sidel
24 Time, Space and Music in the Kathmandu Valley / Richard Widdess
25 Notes on the Opaque Seduction of (Canto) pop: Sonic Imaginations / Jeroen de Kloet
26 Bali's Last Resort: Writing Ethnography of Balinese Adat / Kiyoshi NAKAMURA
27 The Making of a Myth:The Amazing Life and Death of the Sixth Dalai Lama / Simon Wickham-Smith
28 In Service of Growth: Legal Regimes, FDI, and Taiwan's Economic Development / HO Ming-Yu
29 New Perspectives in Word-Prosodic Typology / Bert Remijsen
31 Politics by Other Means: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India / Thomas Blom Hansen
32 Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity / Stanislaw Meyer
32 Dodonaeus in Japan / Margarita Winkel
33
The Burdens of Economic Growth / Benno Galjart
33 Dragons, Tigers and Dogs in Late Imperial China / Kenneth Hammond
34 Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory / Julia Lovell
34 The Buddha's Moon Reflected on a Thousand Rivers / Allard Olof
35 The Ca Mau Shipwreck, 1723-1735 / John Kleinen
36 A New Focus on the Caspian Region: Turning the Periphery into the Centre / Frederic Grare
36 Khams pa Histories: Visions of People, Place and Authority / Audrey Prost
37 Fertility and Familial Power Relations: Procreation in South India / Nita Mathur
37 The House in Southeast Asia / Catherine Allerton
38 The Anatomy of Betrayal / S. Eben Kirksey
38 Malaysia, the Making of a Nation / Marie-Aimee Tourres
39 The Chinese Minority in Southern Vietnam / Volker Grabowsky
40 Examining the Urban Body in South Asia / Peter Nagy (p.40-41)
42 Asian Ceramics in the Netherlands/ Jan van Campen
45 Maritime Piracy in Asia / Derek S. Johnson & Erika Pladet
45 Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World: Shaping Sustainable Social and Natural Environments / Reed L. Wadley, Ole Mertz, Andreas Egelund Christensen
 46 India's Ship-Scrapping Industry: Monument to the Abuse of Human Labour and the Environment / Rupa Abdi
 47 The Return to the Laggai / Myrna Eindhoven
  IIAS Staff
ICAS News
49 Dealing with Socio-Genetic Marginalization in Asia / Margaret Sleeboom
49 Rethinking Geopolitics in Central Eurasia / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
ASEF/Alliance News
50 SOAS in the European Alliance
50 Transnational Exchanges: Business Relations and Identity Formation Emanating from Asia / Heidi Dahles (p.50-51)
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TANAP News
51 Asia and South Africa: A Missing Link of Nearly Seven Million Words / Helena Liebenberg
51 Asia's Past Secured / Henk Niemeijer
NIOD News
52 Indonesia across Orders / Els Bogaerts
52 The Predicament of Commissioned Research / Hans Blom
53 The Impacts of Space Technology in Southeast Asia / David Soo
53 Orality and Improvisation in East Asian Music: Ninth International CHIME Meeting / CHIME
53 The Life and Work of the Sixth Dalai Lama / Simon Wickham-Smith & Per Sörensen
53 Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda / Robert Cribb
 
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