The World-Wide Web Virtual Library [Alphabetical || Category Subtree || WWW VL database || WWW VL Global Search]

Edited by: Ann Andrews (Ann.Andrews@anu.edu.au)

"The RSPAS Print News" electronic journal (ISSN 1440-9127) was established 1 June 1998 to provide online summaries and announcements of the latest print and/or electronic research publications, including recently completed PhD theses, by members of and visitors to the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra. All information published in this journal (bibliographical details, keywords, URLs) has been provided by authors of the announced publications. In case of the URLs their structural validity is always ascertained by "The RSPAS Print News". However, the Editor of this journal assumes, but not verifies, that the supplied hypertext links do indeed lead to the right document on the Web.

The Journal is a part of Asian Studies WWW VL and Pacific Studies WWW VL.

Weekly announcements and contents' summaries published in the web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. To join this free service (a) send email to: majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au (b) body of the message: subscribe rspas-print-news your-email-address.

RSPAS Print News Announcements: Jun 2003
Vol. 6, No. 6(50)

• 30 Jun 2003
  Yeshe Choekyi Lhamo (2003) 'The fangs of reproduction: An analysis of Taiwanese menstrual pollution in the context of Buddhist philosophy and practice'
  in, "History and Anthropology" 14(2), 1-22
  Keywords:
  Publisher:
  Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 30 Jun 2003
  Eves, Richard (2003) 'Money, mayhem and the beast: Narratives of the world's end from New Ireland.'
  in, "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute" 9(3), 527-47."
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 30 Jun 2003
  Eves, Richard (2003) 'AIDS and apocalypticism: Interpretations of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea.'
  in, "Culture, Health and Sexuality" 5(3), 249-64
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 30 Jun 2003
  Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Ghosh Ira (2001) 'Status of Women in the Coal Mining Communities of the Raniganj Region'
  in, "Annals of the National Association of Geographers, India" Vol XXI(1), 36-49
  Keywords: mining, local communities, women, India
  Publisher:
  Delhi, India: Dpt. of Geography, University of Delhi
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 27 Jun 2003
  Walker, Andrew (2003) 'Restoring flows on Australia's Snowy River: assessing the impacts on local amenity'
  in, "Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal" 21(2), 119-124
  Keywords: Snowy River, environmental flow, catchment management, amenity
  Publisher:
  Surrey, UK: Beech Tree Publishing
  ISSN: 1461 5517
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 26 Jun 2003
  Allen, Bryant (2003) 'Birthweight and environment at Tari'
  in, B J Allen and J Vail, guest editors, "Papua New Guinea Medical Journal" Volume 45, Number 1-2. (Focus Issue on Health and Environment in the Tari Area)
  Keywords: not supplied
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  Other papers can be viewed at http://www.pngimr.org.pg/png_medical_journals.htm

• 26 Jun 2003
  Craig, David (2002)
  "Familiar Medicine: Everyday health, knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam", 312pp.
  Keywords: Southeast Asia; sociology; anthropology; science
  Publisher:
  Hawai'i: University of Hawai'i Press
  ISBN 0 8248 2474 1 (cloth)
  RRP: US$55.00 plus postage
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: orders taken
  

• 23 Jun 2003
  Clarke, William C (2003)
  "Remembering Papua New Guinea: An Eccentric Ethnography", 178pp.
  Keywords: Bomagai-Angoiang (Papua New Guinea people); Bomagai-Angoiang (Papua New Guinea people) - pictorial works; Maring (Papua New Guinea people); Maring (Papua New Guinea people) - pictorial works.
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Pandanus Books, RSPAS
  ISBN 1 74076 034 4
  RRP: AU$49.50 (includes GST) - postage free
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 23 Jun 2003
  Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (ed.) (2003)
  "Constitutions and Human Rights in a Global Age: an Asia-Pacific Perspective" Conference Papers, 172pp.
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS
  ISBN: not supplied
  RRP: AU$18.70 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 23 Jun 2003
  Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (2003) 'Introduction: Constitutions and Human Rights in a Global Age: an Asia-Pacific perspective'
  in, Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ed.) "Constitutions and Human Rights in a Global Age: an Asia-Pacific Perspective". Conference Papers, pp.1-4
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS
  ISBN: not supplied
  RRP: AU$18.70 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 23 Jun 2003
  Lal, Brij V (2003) ''The Voice of the People: Ethnic Identity and Nation Building in Fiji'
  in, Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ed.) "Constitutions and Human Rights in a Global Age: an Asia-Pacific Perspective". Conference Papers, pp.135-156.
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS
  ISBN: not supplied
  RRP: AU$18.70 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 23 Jun 2003
  Tapp, Nicholas and Don Cohn (2003)
  "The Tribal Peoples of Southwest China: Chinese Views of the Other Within", viii+145pp.
  Keywords: not supplied
  Publisher:
  Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus Co Ltd
  ISBN: 974 4800 30 5
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No - Book is available through Amazon.com
  

• 20 Jun 2003
  Cameron, Jenny & J K Gibson-Graham (2003) 'Feminising the Economy: Metaphors, Strategies, Politics'
  in, "Gender, Place and Culture", 10(2), 145-157
  Keywords: alternative economies, unpaid work, diverse economy, politics of transformation
  ISSN: 0966-369x
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Davis, Karen (2003)
  "A Grammar of the Hoava Language, Western Solomons", xvi+332p.
  Keywords: Hoava language - grammar
  Publisher:
  Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS
  ISBN 0 85883 502 9
  RRP: AU$75.90 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Shand, Ric (ed.) (2002)
  "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", xvi+297p.
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Shand, Ric (2002) 'Introduction and Historical Background'
  in, Ric Shand (ed.), "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", pp.1-15.
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Shand, Ric and S A B Ekanayake (2002) 'Benefits and costs of past irrigation investment'
  in, Ric Shand (ed.) "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", pp.52-86
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Wickremarantne, Y M W B and Ric Shand (2002) 'Options for future investment in irrigation'
  in, Ric Shand (ed.) "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", pp.87-149
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Pethiyagoda, U and Ric Shand (2002) 'Diversification and the development of commercial agriculture'
  in, Ric Shand (ed.) "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", pp.195-236
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Shand, Ric (2002) 'Developments in irrigation and agriculture in the 1990s'
  in, Ric Shand (ed.) "Irrigation and Agriculture in Sri Lanka", pp.237-262
  Keywords: agriculture - Sri Lanka; irrigation - Sri Lanka
  Publisher:
  Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies
  ISBN 955 8708 11 9
  RRP: AU$22.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Aspinall, Edward and Greg Fealy (eds) (2003)
  "Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation", xxiii+303p.
  Keywords: decentralization in government - Indonesia; local government - Indonesia; democracy - Indonesia; Indonesia - politics and government, 1998- ; Indonesia - economic conditions, 1945- .
  Publisher:
  Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  ISBN 981 230 202 6 (paperback) 981 230 203 4 (hard cover)
  RRP: AU$35.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Aspinall, Edward and Greg Fealy (2003) 'Introduction: Decentralisation, democratisation and the rise of the local'
  in, Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy (eds), "Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation", xxiii+303p.
  Keywords: decentralization in government - Indonesia; local government - Indonesia; democracy - Indonesia; Indonesia - politics and government, 1998- ; Indonesia - economic conditions, 1945- .
  Publisher:
  Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  ISBN 981 230 202 6 (paperback) 981 230 203 4 (hard cover)
  RRP: AU$35.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Crouch, Harold (2003) 'Political update 2002: Megawati's holding operation'
  in, Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy (eds), "Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation", pp.15-34
  Keywords: decentralization in government - Indonesia; local government - Indonesia; democracy - Indonesia; Indonesia - politics and government, 1998- ; Indonesia - economic conditions, 1945- .
  Publisher:
  Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  ISBN 981 230 202 6 (paperback) 981 230 203 4 (hard cover)
  RRP: AU$35.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 18 Jun 2003
  Mietzner, Marcus (2003) 'Business as usual? The Indonesian Armed Forces and local politics in the Post-Soeharto era'
  in, Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy (eds), "Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation", pp.245-258
  Keywords: decentralization in government - Indonesia; local government - Indonesia; democracy - Indonesia; Indonesia - politics and government, 1998- ; Indonesia - economic conditions, 1945- .
  Publisher:
  Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  ISBN 981 230 202 6 (paperback) 981 230 203 4 (hard cover)
  RRP: AU$35.00 (includes GST) + p&h
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: Yes
  

• 17 Jun 2003
  Jha, Raghbendra and K V Bhanu Murthy (2003) 'An Inverse Global Environmental Kuznets Curve '
  in, "Journal of Comparative Economics", pp.352-368
  Keywords: Global Environmental Kuznets Curve, Principal Components, Environmental Degradation Index
  Publisher:
  USA: Elsevier
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 16 Jun 2003
  Ravenhill, John (2003) 'The Move to Preferential Trade in the Western Pacific Rim'
  in, "AsiaPacific Issues" No. 69
  Keywords: Integration, Bilateralism, Asia-Pacific
  Publisher:
  Honolulu: East-West Center
  ISSN 1522 0966
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  URL http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1395

• 16 Jun 2003
  Bell, Stephen and John Ravenhill (2003) 'Political Economy'
  in, Ian McAllister, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan (eds), "The Cambridge Handbook of the Social Sciences in Australia", pp.374-405
  Keywords: Political Economy, Australia, Foreign Economic Relations
  Publisher:
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  ISBN 0521822165
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 16 Jun 2003
  Ravenhill, John (2003) 'The New Bilateralism in the Asia-Pacific'
  in, "Third World Quarterly", 24(2): 299-317
  Keywords: Regionalism, Integration, FTAs, Asia-Pacific
  Publisher:
  London: Taylor and Francis
  ISSN 0143 6597
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: No
  

• 16 Jun 2003
  Ravenhill, John (2003) 'From National Champions to Global Partners: Crisis, Globalization, and the Korean Auto Industry'
  in, William W Keller and Richard J Samuels (eds), "Crisis and Innovation in Asian Technology", pp.108-36
  Keywords: Economic Restructuring, Financial Crisis, Auto Industry
  Publisher:
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  ISBN 0521524091
  Sold by RSPAS Bookshop: no
  

Copyright (c) 2003 by Ann Andrews, PICS, RSPAS, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, ANU. This Web page may be linked to any other Web pages. Contents may not be altered. The editor does not control or endorse the content of third party Web Sites.