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Asian and African Area Studies No.2 (November, 2002)

The Editorial Committe Foreword 1  (PDF: 168kb)
Kemiri (Aleurites moluccana) and Forest Resource Management in Eastern Indonesia: An Eco-historical Perspective   TANAKA Koji   5    (PDF: 197kb)
Minor Crops in Globalizing Agriculture: A Note on Edible Job’s Tears Cultivated in Louang Phabang Province, Laos   OCHIAI Yukino   24    (PDF: 1659kb)
The Essence of African Vegeculture: Ethnobotanical Comparison of Banana and Ensete   SHIGETA Masayoshi   44    (PDF: 2078kb)
Village Life and Indigenous Resource Management in Savanna of West Africa   HAYASHI Yukihiro   70    (PDF: 1681kb)
Indigenous Farming Systems in Miombo Woodlands and Surrounding Areas in East Africa   ITANI Juichi   88    (PDF: 1430kb)
 
Articles            
Is Singapore’s Economy Growth a Myth ? : A New Productivity Analysis   ABE Shigeyuki & Shandre M. THANGAVELU   105    (PDF: 1043kb)
Shrinking Political Power of the Thai Military in the 1990s   TAMADA Yoshifumi   120    (PDF: 4759kb)
Analytical Framework of Sufism   TONAGA Yasushi   173    (PDF: 1752kb)
The Subsistence System in Lozi Society on the Zambezi River Floodplain   OKAMOTO Masahiro   193    (PDF: 4186kb)
 
Research Notes            
Does God Dwell in Detail?: “Detail” and “Concreteness “ in Area Studies   KIMURA Daiji   243    (PDF: 699kb)
Is “Du’a” the Lionese Word for Owner?: On the Concept of ‘Causal Domination’   SUGISHIMA Takashi   251    (PDF: 2251kb)
The Partition of India: Memory and Narratives of Violence   ISAKA Riho   281    (PDF: 936kb)
Tropical Forest Destruction in a Local Context: An Example from Cameroon   ICHIKAWA Mitsuo   292    (PDF: 1318kb)
Livestock Individuality and their Commoditization: Are East African Pastoralists Capitalists?   OHTA Itaru   306    (PDF: 880kb)
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and Mustafa al-Sibai: A Methodological Approach to the Study of the Islamic Movements in Contemporary Syria   SUECHIKA Kota   318    (PDF: 928kb)
 
Book Reviews            (PDF: 2234kb)
Tadahiko Shintani ed. A Golden Quadrilateral: History, Languages and Ethnicities in the Shan Culture Area. Tokyo: Keiyusya, 1998, 326p.
  KASHINAGA Masao   329    
Mary Beth Mills. Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves.
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Routgers University Press, 1999, xv+218p.
  KISO Keiko   332    
Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby. Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid. Colorado and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000, 286p.
  NEJIMA Susumu   336    
Christopher Houston. Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State. Oxford & New York: Berg, 2001, 215p.
  OHBA Ryuta   344    
 
Fieldwork News            (PDF: 1410kb)
My Research on the Seaweeds in Vietnam: Ecology, Production and Utilization.   TSUTSUI Isao   351    
How You Become a Qualified Pottery Maker: Field Work in the Ari Area, Southwestern Ethiopia   KANEKO Morie   357    
What Chipande Teaches: The Circumcision Ritual among the Gogo, Tanzania.   HASEGAWA Tatsuo   361