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In the first book-length study in English of the Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Na
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Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic ten
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Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family
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According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital invest
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A ground-breaking book that sets out to demonstrate that Japanese is “simple, logical and beautiful” and that most of th
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This volume analyzes the recurring form of warrior government known as the Bakufu (or shogunate) that ruled Japan for ne
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