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Book reviews in the genesis of this ethnic libel' (p.219) provides considerable food for thought! CHIROT, Daniel and Anthony REID Essential DALLMAYR, Fred and G.N. DEVY (eds) outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the modern transformation of Southeast Between tradition and modernity: India's Asia and Central Europe. Seattle: search for identity. New Delhi: Thousand University of Washington Press. 1997. Oaks and London: Sage Publications. vii, 335pp., index. US$25 (paper) ISBN 0- 1998. 375pp., contents, preface, 295-97613-6. acknowledgments, notes. Rs.395.00 Reviewed by Andrew Walker (cloth) ISBN 81-7036-698-4; Rs.225.00 (paper) ISBN 81-7036-699-2. Combining accounts of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Jews in Europe is a Reviewed by Alexander Soucy bold move, but this collection does not quite succeed. Several of the individual India and Indians have, since their accounts are very good indeed, but there is colonisation, through their independence insufficient linkage between the two and until today, grappled with the bodies of scholarship to make this a really implications of modernity and satisfying collection. For this reader modernisation in relation to Indian Chirot's provocative opening statement on tradition and cultural self-identity. The the 'dangers of communalism' was the positions which have been taken range, highlight of the volume and, in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 1 (2): 23 – Sep 1, 2000
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in the genesis of this ethnic libel' (p.219) provides considerable food for thought! CHIROT, Daniel and Anthony REID Essential DALLMAYR, Fred and G.N. DEVY (eds) outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the modern transformation of Southeast Between tradition and modernity: India's Asia and Central Europe. Seattle: search for identity. New Delhi: Thousand University of Washington Press. 1997. Oaks and London: Sage Publications. vii, 335pp., index. US$25 (paper) ISBN 0- 1998. 375pp., contents,...
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in the genesis of this ethnic libel' (p.219) provides considerable food for thought! CHIROT, Daniel and Anthony REID Essential DALLMAYR, Fred and G.N. DEVY (eds) outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the modern transformation of Southeast Between tradition and modernity: India's Asia and Central Europe. Seattle: search for identity. New Delhi: Thousand University of Washington Press. 1997. Oaks and London: Sage Publications. vii, 335pp., index. US$25 (paper) ISBN 0- 1998. 375pp., contents, preface, 295-97613-6. acknowledgments, notes. Rs.395.00 Reviewed by Andrew Walker (cloth) ISBN 81-7036-698-4; Rs.225.00 (paper) ISBN 81-7036-699-2. Combining accounts of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Jews in Europe is a Reviewed by Alexander Soucy bold move, but this collection does not quite succeed. Several of the individual India and Indians have, since their accounts are very good indeed, but there is colonisation, through their independence insufficient linkage between the two and until today, grappled with the bodies of scholarship to make this a really implications of modernity and satisfying collection. For this reader modernisation in relation to Indian Chirot's provocative opening statement on tradition and cultural self-identity. The the 'dangers of communalism' was the positions which have been taken range, highlight of the volume and, in the

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