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Asian and African Area Studies No.8(2) (March, 2009)

Asian and African Area Studies
No.8-2	March 2009

CONTENTS

Articles

The Rapid Expansion of Agricultural Lands into Seasonal

Swamps: A Case Study of the Mbozi District in Tanzania

Yamamoto Kana 125

The Antinomy of Civil Society-Dependent Electoral Governance in the Philippines:

Implications for Democratic Consolidation

Igarashi Seiichi 147

M.K. Gandhi on Gujarati Language and Literature

Isaka Riho 177

A Network of Earthquake, Buildings, and Society: An Anthropological Observation

of the Istanbul Anti-Seismic Urban Reform Plan

Kimura Shuhei 195

Book Reviews

Kennedy Agade Mkutu. Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley:
Pastoralist Confl ict and Small Arms.

Oxford: James Currey, 2008, xii＋178p.

Sagawa Toru 215

Masako Ito. Politics of Ethnicity : The History and the Present of Vietnamese Ethnic Classifi cation.

Tokyo: Sangensha, 2008, 306p.

Shoji Hiroshi 219

Fieldwork News

The Emergence of New Ethnic Identities: The Impact of the

2007 Election among Ariaal Pastoralists of Northern Kenya

Naito Naoki 224

A Report from the Young Offenders Institution in

Madagascar

Nishimoto Noa 230

Cultural Exchange Concerning Wild Boars Hunting between the Ryukyu Islands:

A Report of the 2nd Wild Boars Summit in Iriomote Island

Ebihara Ippei 234

Al-Ahly and al-Zamarek: The Gloomy Egyptian Society and CAF

Champions League

Yasuda Shin 238