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H-Net reviews posted to the web 23 Feb 2015 - 02 Mar 2015 (Asia-related)

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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Franz A. Metcalf
   Wilson, Jeff.  _Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of
   Buddhist Meditation and American Culture_.  Oxford: Oxford
   University Press, 2014.  287 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-982781-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=42265
 

2016 MLA CFP "Translation as Method in East Asia"--Deadline Extended (Mar. 15)

 

Collaborative East Aian Lit Panel (non-guaranteed):

Translation as Method in East Asia

Papers engaging translation to approach literary and socio-cultural phenomena in East Asia. 300-word abstract and CV by March 15, 2015; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu)

Latest edition of Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology now available online

 

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Issue 16/2   April 2015

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtap20/current#

 

Special Issue: Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali

 

INTRODUCTION

Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali

Rachel P. Lorenzen & Dik Roth

 

Original Articles

Call for Papers: "Global Environmental Histories from Below" for Special Issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

Global Environmental Histories from Below

Call for Papers

Special Issue of

Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

http://www.resiliencejournal.org

Robert Morrissey and Roderick Wilson, editors

 

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Recent Reviews

Review published on Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Author: 
Sunila S. Kale
Reviewer: 
Sudha Mahalingam

Mahalingam on Kale, 'Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development'


Sunila S. Kale. Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8796-3.

Reviewed by Sudha Mahalingam (Member, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, India Retd.)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Electricity Policy in India

Review published on Monday, February 16, 2015
Author: 
Ananya Vajpeyi
Reviewer: 
Dilip Menon

Menon on Vajpeyi, 'Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India'


Ananya Vajpeyi. Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04895-9.

Reviewed by Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Review published on Friday, February 13, 2015
Author: 
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Reviewer: 
Linda Chance

Chance on Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 'The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan'


Sugawara no Takasue no Musume. The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan. Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki. Translations from the Asian Classics Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps. 322 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16718-5; $39.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-53745-2.

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Funding Opportunity: Research and Conference Grant for Grad Students and Untenured Faculty

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Don’t let your scholarly potential be limited by the depth of your pockets!

The Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University announces

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