Showing papers on "East Asia published in 1968"

Shamanism in South Asia: A Preliminary Survey

Abstract: Most anthropologists who have described or analyzed shamanism in South Asia approach the subject from a functionalist point of view. For example, Berreman, in writing about shamanism in northern India, contrasts the \"roles of the shaman\" with \"the roles of Brahman priests\" and notes that shamans are especially important as \"religious innovators and policy makers.\"l He claims that priests are administrators of the \"learned, literate, or great tradition,\" 2 while shamans have \"direct contact with the supernatural world through a personal familiar spirit which can possess his body (literally 'come to his head') and speak through his mouth to communicate with people who call upon him for information.\"3 Although he seems to define the shaman in terms of his ability to become \"possessed,\" he makes no attempt to separate the shaman from other \"healers,\" part-time religious practitioners, etc. On the contrary, he seems to lump all of them under the catchall phrase of \"the little tradition.\"4 Mandelbaum follows Berreman in mak-

Serological Groups of Shigellain Japan and Neighboring Countries. A Review

Abstract: An outline of the distribution of shigellae in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Continental China, the Philippines, and other countries to the south is presented in the form of a survey from data compiled in the literature in terms of the spectrum of Shigella group. Japan is the only country to date with S. sonnei in an absolute majority, though it is gradually increasing also in the other areas. S. dysenteriae and S. boydit are seldom detected in urban communities of Japan but the former is found at a rate of 5 to 10 per cent in the other countries except Taiwan and Hong Kong. The latter appears in the same proportion, particularly in Vietnam. In Japan, the change in the ratio of S. flexneri and S. sonnei has been demonstrable in minute, year by year steps since 1951. In Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China an identical change is taking place approximately within a given period of time.

Continuity and Change in the International History of Maritime South East Asia

Abstract: That view of the history of maritime South East Asia which fixed a rigid dividing line in 1511 or 1600, and regarded the assertion of European dominance in the area as marking the frontier between traditional and modern history, has long ago been discredited and discarded. It led to the treatment of the earlier history of Malaya and Indonesia as a mere prelude to the coming of the Europeans, or at least as an era without relevance to later events, to which special criteria must be applied. The later history was treated predominantly as the story of European activities and rivalries, and purely western criteria were applied even to indigenous themes. All this is now regarded as unscientific, and labelled ‘Europe-centric’. Few, if any, contemporary historians would challenge this judgment so far as the internal history of Malaya and Indonesia and their component parts are concerned, and, though there is still ample room for discussion as to its application in practice, this paper does not seek to re-open the debate. It is concerned not so much with the development of maritime South East Asian society, or with the history of individual states within what are now Malaysia and Indonesia, as with the relations of these states with each other.

Contributions to a study of the pyraustinae (lepidoptera: pyralidae) of temperate east asia. iii

Abstract: The following new pyraustine taxa are described: Psammotis turkestanica n. sp., East Turkestan; P. orientalis n. s p., Hokkaido, Far-Eastern SSR, Manchuria and Siberia; Xanthopsamma, n. gen., type-sp. X. aurantialis n. sp., Chekiang, Kiangsu and Hunan provs., China; X. youboialis n. sp., Hainan I., China; Nascia cilialis christophi n. subsp., Far-Eastern SSR; N. c. kumatai n. subsp., Hokkaido; Perinephela lancealis bergmeni n. subsp., Kurile Is.; P. l. pryeri n. subsp., Hokkaido; P. l. honshuensis n. subsp., Honshu; P. l. sinensis n. subsp., Shensi Prov. and West and South China; P. l. taiwanensis n. subsp., Taiwan.

Japan's Role in Asia

Abstract: Dr. P. A. N. Murthy is Reader in Japanese Studies at the Indian School of International Studies, New Delhi. 1 WENTY YEAI

East asian regionalism and united states security

Abstract: : The study analyzes the nature of American security interests in East Asia in order to relate the concept of Asian regionalism to those interests

The Britain of the East? A Study in the Geography of Imitation

Abstract: To an Englishman of my generation, whose schooling took place during the 1920–30s, the practice of comparing Japan with Britain has long been a commonplace. School geography lessons on Japan invariably began with a reference to the temperate offshore island kingdom of eastern Asia as the ‘Britain of the East’, and this theme was often elaborated to include the characterization of Osaka and Kobe respectively as the Manchester and Liverpool of Japan. But following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 the climate of opinion began to change, and so did the analogy. In 1936, Freda Utley, in a book which attracted widespread interest, observed:Although the real Japan comes a little closer to being the Prussia of Asia than the Britain of Asia, it is fundamentally unlike all these romantic pictures, and in so far as it resembles another country, that country is Russia under the tyranny of the Tsars.

China and South East Asia

Abstract: Dr Vishal Singh is Head of the Department of South East Asian Studies at the Indian School of International Studies, New Delhi. He is a member of our Advisory Editorial Board, A study of recent relations of China with some South-East Asian countries highlights the marked Chinese interest in instability in this area. It almost takes the form of a faith. The Chinese aggressiveness which at one time seemed confined to India among countries of Southern Asia, is now extend-

Contributions to a study of the pyraustinae (lepidoptera: pyralidae) of temperate east asia. i

Abstract: The following new pyraustine taxa are described: Pseudebulea fentoni sadoensis n. subsp., Sado I., Japan; P. f. yezoensis n. subsp., Hokkaido, Japan; P. f. ussuriensis n. subsp., Ussuri region, USSR; P. f. koreensis n. subsp., Korea; P. hainanensis n. sp., Hainan I., China; P. lungtanensis n. sp., Kiangsu Prov., China; P. kuatunensis n. sp., Fukien Prov., China; P. k. ichangensis n. subsp., Hupeh Prov., China; Aristebulea n. gen., type-sp. A. nobilis (Moore) n. comb., described in Pionea; A. principis n. sp., Fukien Prov., China; Mimetebulea n. gen., type-sp. M. arctialis n. sp.