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23 posts

Constructing the “Author” in Meiji Japan

  • Robert Tuck
  • 8 minute read
A review of Editing Identity: Literary Anthologies and the Construction of the Author in Meiji Japan, by Molly Des Jardin.…
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Urban Communities in Thailand, 5th to 9th Cent.

  • Till Sonnemann
  • 5 minute read
A review of Ideology, Identity and the Construction of Urban Communities: The Archaeology of Kamphaeng Saen, Central Thailand (c. Fifth…
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Miracle Shrines in Northwestern India

  • Michael Slouber
  • 6 minute read
A review of Gods for the Modern Era: The Rise of Miracle Shrines in Northwestern India, by Rufin Jamey Saul.…
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Narratives of Southern Vietnamese History

  • Bradley Camp Davis
  • 9 minute read
A review of Reconceptualizing Southern Vietnamese History from the 15th to 18th Centuries: Competition along the Coasts from Guangdong to…
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Punk Avant-Gardes in East Germany

  • Sara Blaylock
  • 5 minute read
A review of Punk Avant-Gardes: Disengagement and the End of East Germany, by Seth Howes. Seth Howes’s exploration of the…
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The (Geo)Politics of Korean Cosmetic Surgery

  • Jane Park
  • 10 minute read
A review of The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture, by Sharon Heijin Lee.…
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Irrigation Water Management in Kyrgyzstan

  • Kristopher White
  • 9 minute read
A review of Water, International Development and Collective Action: An Impact Assessment of an Irrigation Management Project in Southern Kyrgyzstan,…
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Experiences of Aging in Post-Socialist Poland

  • Siobhan Magee
  • 11 minute read
A review of Personhood in Places: Aging, Memory, and Relatedness in Postsocialist Poland by Jessica Choate Robbins In both media…
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French Antillean Education & the Creole Movement

  • Christopher Church
  • 6 minute read
A review of Creole Citizens of France: The Trans-Atlantic Politics of Antillean Education and the Creole Movement Since 1945, by…
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Graeco-Perso-Babylo-Macedonian Dionysus

  • Khodadad Rezakhani
  • 10 minute read
A review of Alexander the Great: Forming Political Identity in a Multicultural Empire, by Jennifer L. Finn. This is an…
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