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Reviewer:
Shailaja Paik
Paik on Jaaware, 'Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching'
Aniket Jaaware. Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching. Commonalities Series. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. 256 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-8225-8; $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-8226-5.
Reviewed by Shailaja Paik (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Asia (July, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
CFP: Institutional Inequality? Access to Colonial Institutions in Early Modern Port Cities at EUHC in Antwerp (2020)
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Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
September 2, 2020 to September 5, 2020
Call for Papers: Association for Japanese Literary Studies 2020 Conference
Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Japanese Literature
Re: Call for Manuscripts: “Asian Literature in the Humanities and the Social Sciences"
We are seeking additional feature and teaching resource essay manuscripts, particularly on China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan for our winter 2019 issue.
Prospective authors are welcome to email me 1-3 paragraph descriptions of possible manuscript ideas and will receive prompt replies to queries at lucien-ellington@utc.edu
The deadline for initial receipt of manuscripts for this special section is August 23rd, 2019. Authors who submit proposals may be given extra time to submit a finished manuscript beyond this deadline.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Shailaja Paik
Paik on Jaaware, 'Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching'
Aniket Jaaware. Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching. Commonalities Series. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. 256 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-8225-8; $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-8226-5.
Reviewed by Shailaja Paik (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Asia (July, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Reviewer:
Rachel McDermott
McDermott on Schaflechner, 'Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan'
Jürgen Schaflechner. Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 360 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-085052-4.
Reviewed by Rachel McDermott (Barnard College) Published on H-Asia (July, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Reviewer:
Timothy May
May on Wang, 'In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600'
Jinping Wang. In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xix + 336 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98715-9.
Reviewed by Timothy May (University of North Georgia) Published on H-Asia (July, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Recent Threads
CfP for AAS 2020: Creating Emergent Futures in Contemporary China
Call for Papers for the 2020 Association of Asian Studies Conference (March 19-22, Boston):
CFP: Institutional Inequality? Access to Colonial Institutions in Early Modern Port Cities at EUHC in Antwerp (2020)
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
September 2, 2020 to September 5, 2020
Call for Papers: Association for Japanese Literary Studies 2020 Conference
Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Japanese Literature