Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction

Articles

The "Backroom Boys" of Hong Kong Anthropology: Fieldworkers and Their Friends

Hugh BAKER

Mystical Mastery: The Presentation of Kashf in Sufi Divination

Arthur SANIOTIS

Western Names for Chinese Identities: The Acquisition and Use of Western Personal Names among Chinese Business Professionals in Foreign-Invested Corporations

Laurie DUTHIE

The Sad Marriage of Anthropology, Neo-Colonialism and Feminism: Or Why Japanese Sexual Behavior Is Always Intriguing

Etsuko KATO

Reports

The Noriya-san of Northern Japan: An Enduring Coastal Cultural Group

Alyne E. DELANEY

Identity Formation and Fracture Among the Siddis of Hyderabad

Ababu Minda YIMENE

Poverty, Opium, and Education Among the Lanten in Laos

YUAN Tongkai

The Development of a New Religion in Kalimantan, Central Borneo

Martin BAIER

Book Reviews

Maria Heimer and Stig Thøgersen, ed., Doing Fieldwork in China.

Joseph BOSCO

Zhang Yanhua, Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China.

LEUNG Ping Chung

Beth E. Notar, Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China.

Gordon MATHEWS

Robyn Iredale, Naran Bilik and Fei Guo, eds., China’s Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies

WU Da

Laura Miller, Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics.

Lynne NAKANO

Maria R. del Alisal, Peter Ackermann, and Dolores P. Martinez, eds., Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan.

John NELSON

Tracing the Pursuits for Building a Nation: Three Genealogies of Korea (combined review on three books)
Michael REINSCHMIDT

Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan, eds., Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice.

James ROBERSON

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity.

Satohiro SERIZAWA

Adela Baer, Karen Endicott, Rosemary Gianno, Signe Howell, Barbara S. Nowak, and Cornelia van der Sluys, Orang Asli Women of Malaysia: Perceptions, Situations and Aspirations.

CHEE Heng Leng

Anthony R. Walker, Merit and the Millennium: Routine and Crisis in the Ritual Lives of the Lahu People.

HSIEH Shih-chung

John Postill, Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian.

Neilson Ilan MERSAT

Charles Macdonald, Uncultural Behavior: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines.

Michael TAN

Joel S. Kahn, Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World.

Mohamed Yusoff Ismail

Nancy Eberhardt, Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community.

Anthony R. WALKER

Kajri Jain, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art.

Singaravelu SACHITHANANTHAM