Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia (Series)

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Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 1

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Aryan and Non-Aryan in India

Edited by Madhav Deshpande, Peter Edwin Hook, and Peter Edwin Hook
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A collection studies of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan Indian cultures from linguistic and historical perspectives

Boundaries of the Text

Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia

Edited by Joyce Flueckiger & Laurie Sears
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eight essays examine oral and textual practices in South and Southeast Asian epic performance traditions of the Mahabharata and Ramayana

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia

Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography

Edited by Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Economics, International Economics, Sociology
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Uncovers patterns of social interaction made visible through scenarios of economic exchange

Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History

The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft

Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Human Rights, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia

Edited by A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Natural Resources, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eleven papers explore the ecological ramifications of ethnicity in Southeast Asia.

The Journey

Stories by K. C. Das

By K.C. Das & K.C. Das
Translated by Phyllis Granoff
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

This exceptional collection of stories explores human emotions and motivations in all their untidiness.

The Padaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated

By Sao Mangrai
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Provides a wealth of insight into the history of the Tai and the spread of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar and Thailand

Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia

New Approaches to Performance Events

Edited by Jan Mrazek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Solid and accessible scholarship about a multifaceted form of art

The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan

Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660, Volumes 1–2

By Richard Saran, Norman Ziegler, and Norman P. Ziegler
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Two-volume reference work for scholars of late-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth-century Rājasthān

Conversational Tamil

By K. Karunakaran
Subjects: Foreign Language, Asian Languages, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An innovative teaching tool with demonstrated success in the classroom

The Journey

Stories by K. C. Das

Translated by Phyllis Granoff
By K.C. Das & K. Das
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

This exceptional collection of stories explores human emotions and motivations in all their untidiness.

Thai and Indic Literary Studies

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney discusses Thai Riddles, problems in translating Thai poetry, and historical development and Sanskrit influences in Thai verse forms

Tai Dialect Studies

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A study of the tai language family and dialects, inlcuding grammar notes, glossaries, texts, and translations

Samskrta-Subodhini

A Sanskrit Primer

By Madhav Deshpande
Subjects: Education, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A quintessential guidebook for learning Sanskrit

The Lue Language

Glossaries, Texts and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney, using several informants, compiled an extensive glossary of the Lue language, complete with texts and translations

Central Tai Dialects

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A monograph of Central Tai dialects that offers extensive glossaries, texts, and translations with additional notes

Southwestern Tai Dialects

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A thorough examination of Southwestern Tai Dialects, including an extensive glossary as well as texts and translations

The Saek Language

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A thorough description of the Saek language, containing a 551 page glossary with around ten thousand lexical iterms as well as more than 300 pages of texts and translations

Independence and Democracy in Burma, 1945–1952

The Turbulent Years

By Balwant Singh
Subjects: History, European History, Political Science, Human Rights, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

The memoir of Balwant Singh, a civil servant under both the British and independent governments of Burma, provides a dramatic account of the turbulent years immediately following World War II.

The Tai Dialect of Lungming

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Represents one of the most complete examinations yet undertaken of a dialect belonging to the Central Branch of the Tai language family

The Yay Language

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney’s work on Yay, published in this volume, consists of a lengthy glossary and a collection of folktales and traditional songs.

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