Legitimation and Innovation in Tibetan Chöd
A review of Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition, by Michelle Janet Sorensen. Encompassing intellectual…
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Social Knowledge & Cultural Memory in Japanese Waka Poetry
A review of Learning with Waka Poetry: Transmission and Production of Social Knowledge and Cultural Memory in Premodern Japan, by Ariel G. Stilerman. Waka, the…
Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi
A review of Art in Between Empires: Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857, by Yuthika Sharma. In Art Between Empires, Yuthika…
Courtiers and Warriors in Medieval Japan
A review of Divided Loyalties and Shifting Perceptions: The Jōkyū Disturbance and Courtier-Warrior Relations in Medieval Japan, by Michael McCarty. How does our picture of…
China’s Conservative Revolution
A review of China’s Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949, by Brian Kai Hin Tsui. “Revolution” and “modernization” are two of the central loci…
Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs
A review of From the Seed of the Gods: Art, Ideology, and Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs, 284-324 CE, by…
Women and Jōruri Puppet Plays in 18th-Century Japan
A review of Prostitutes, Stepmothers, and Provincial Daughters: Women and Jōruri Puppet Plays in 18th Century Japan, by Shiho Takai. In this welcome dissertation, Shiho…
Gender, Sex and Family among Mexican Immigrants in New York City
A review of Intimate Negotiations: The Political Economy of Gender, Sex and Family among Mexican Immigrants in New York City, by Debra J. Pelto. Debra…
Paintings of Udaipur between Mughal and British Rule
A review of Picturing India’s “Land of Kings” Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs, by Dipti Khera. Dipti…
Persian Prison Poetry
A review of The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200, by Rebecca Gould. Rebecca Gould’s dissertation traces the Persian prison poem (ḥabsiyyāt)…