Karen Identity on the Thai-Burma Border
A review of Spaces of Solidarity: Karen Identity in the Thai-Burma Borderlands, by Rachel Sharples. In 1949, civil war broke out in the newly-independent country…
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Two Resource Centers in Pune, India
A review of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and Deccan College Scriptorium. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Deccan Gymkhana, Pune, India) The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI)…
Cinema, Nation-State & Globalization in Cold War Asia
A review of The Transnational Asian Studio System: Cinema, Nation-State, and Globalization in Cold War Asia, by Sangjoon Lee. “Globalization” has become a buzzword in…
Feminist Bioethics
A review of The Feminist Transformation of Bioethics: An Analysis of Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Applications in Feminist Bioethics, by Eeva Nyrövaara. In The Feminist…
Mimesis & Realness in Media Contexts
A review of Acting Real: Mimesis and Media in Performance, by Lindsay Brandon Hunter. In a culture where humans are surrounded with different forms of…
British Romantic Cognitive Science
A review of The Embodied Imagination: British Romantic Cognitive Science, by Lisa Ann Robertson. Lisa Ann Robertson’s dissertation is an ambitious tour de force about…
Aesthetics & Cosmopolitanism at a Buddhist Monastery
A review of Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery, by Dominique Townsend. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, there remains a…
Sharebon, the Demimonde & Edo Aesthetics
A review of Sharebon and the Courtesans: A Phase of Edo Aesthetics as the Dispersal of Ideology, by Nahoko Fukushima. The aesthetics Fukushima finds in…
Sacred Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
A review of Quest for the True Visage: Sacred Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Art and Concept of Zhen, by Sun-ah Choi. As in other…
Indian Diaspora & Decolonization in Guyana
A review of The Last Return Indenture/ship from Guyana to India: Diaspora, Decolonization and Douglarized Spaces, by Nalini Devi Mohabir. For the most part, scholars…