Newsletter 32

Newsletter 32

November 2003
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2Editorial / Maurice Sistermans
2Director's Note of Appreciation / Wim Stokhof

1 A Journey of Research in Asia: Crossing between Old and New Nations / Prasenjit Duara (p.1&3)
4Whither North Korea? / Koen De Ceuster

6The Future of Asian Studies / Frits Staal (p. 6-7)
8The Poverty of Regionalism: Limits in the Study of Southeast Asia /
Robert Cribb
9Writing Indian History from an Asian Perspective / Om Prakash
10Where From, Who For? Modern Korean Historical Studies / Ken Wells
11Comprehensive Vietnamese Village Studies: From Ten Years of Research
in a Small Village
/ Yumio SAKURAI
12Understanding Elderly Vulnerability in Indonesia / Philip Kreager
13Patterns of Kin and Community Support: ‘Oh, it's nothing, I've just cooked too much' / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
14Pensions for Widows in Indonesia: 'You can bite it, but it's tough!' /
Ruly Marianti
15Growing Old in the City / Peter van Eeuwijk
16A Post-Colonial Poet with a Quest for Identity: Interview with Malaysian Literary Laureate, Muhammad Haji Salleh / Mohammad Salleh Yaapar (p.16-17)
18India: Caste Stronger than Religion? / Christophe Jaffrelot
19Cultures of Confinement / Frank Dikötter
20The Swami and the Sister / Narasingha Sil
21The Invention of India in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy / Neelam Srivastava
22 Islamic Youth Movements in Indonesia / Ken Miichi
22Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia Series / Rogier
Busser
23Liberalism, Communism, Islam: Transnational Motors of 'Nationalist' Struggles in Southeast / John Sidel
24Time, 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
29New Perspectives in Word-Prosodic Typology / Bert Remijsen

30Books Received
31Politics By Other Means: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence
in Contemporary India
/ Thomas Blom Hansen
32Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity / Stanislaw Meyer
32Dodonæus in Japan / Guita Winkel
33The Burdens of Economic Growth / Benno Galjart
33Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs in Late Imperial China / Kenneth Hammond
34Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory / Julia Lovell
34 The Buddha's Moon Reflected on a Thousand Rivers / Allard Olof
35The Ca Mau Shipwreck, 1723-1735 / John Kleinen
36 A New Focus on the Caspian Region: Turning the Periphery into the Centre / Frédéric Grare
36Khams pa Histories: Visions of People, Place and Authority / Audrey Prost
37Fertility and Familial Power Relations: Procreation in South India / Nita Mathur
37The House in Southeast Asia / Catherine Allerton
38The Anatomy of Betrayal / S. Eben Kirksey
38Malaysia, the Making of a Nation / Marie-Aimée Tourres
39The Chinese Minority in Southern Vietnam / Volker Grabowsky

40Examining the Urban Body in South Asia / Peter Nagy (p. 40-41)
42Asian Ceramics in the Netherlands / Jan van Campen
43Asian Art Agenda / Carol Brash (p. 43-44)
45Maritime Piracy in Asia / Derrek Johnson & Erika Pladet
45Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World: Shaping Sustainable
Social and Natural Environments
/ Reed L. Wadley, Ole Mertz, Andreas
Egelund Christensen
46India's Ship-Scrapping Industry: Monument to the Abuse of Human Labour and the Environment / Rupa Abdi
47The Return to the Laggai / Myrna Eindhoven
48IIAS Research Fellows
49Dealing with Socio-Genetic Marginalization in Asia / Margaret Sleeboom
49Rethinking Geopolitics in Central Eurasia / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
50 Alliance Partners
50 SOAS in the European Alliance
50 Transnational Exchanges: Business Relations and Identity Formation
Emanating from Asia
/ Heidi Dahles (p.50-51)
51Asia and South Africa: A Missing Link of Nearly Seven Million Words / Helena Liebenberg
51Asia's Past Secured / Henk Niemeijer
52Indonesia across Order / Els Bogaerts
52The Predicament of Commissioned Research / Hans Blom

53 The Impacts of Space Technology in Southeast Asia / David Soo
53Orality and Improvisation in East Asian Music: Ninth International
CHIME Meeting
/ CHIME
53The Life and Work of the Sixth Dalai Lama / Simon Wickham-Smith &
Per Sörensen
53Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda / Robert Cribb
54International Conference Agenda (p. 54-55)
55ICOPHIL 2004
56Colophon

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