Journals: Biography International Year in Review, Journal of Burma Studies Contribution to Pyu Studies + more 


Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting

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Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Writing

Volume 35 Number 2 (2023)

Guest Editors Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, and Ann Ang discussion their vision with this unique collection of writing:

This anthology represents a chorus of offerings, first and foremost to the land and the sea, and second to you, our readers, as an invitation to attend to the urgencies and travails of our homes. On the one hand, while the anthology is comprised mostly of anglophone texts, which reflect the aspirations of regional writers to speak across borders and to the globe at large, the English of these pages is inhabited by meanings and associations that make the language our own. This can be seen in the use of indigenous names of plants and places in the works of Annisa Hidayat, Diana Rahim, and Mohamed Shaker, or through rhymes and sounds in the poems of Natalie Foo Mei-Yi and Teresa Mei Chuc. At other times, the native language emerges like weeds, surprising and demanding to be noticed, as in Enbah Nilah’s use of Tamil, which persists as linguistic, cultural, and historical memory in a legacy of erasure.

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Journals: Seabirds Vulnerable to Climate Change, Anger in a Non-Ideal World, Living the Way of Tea + more

Asian Perspectives

Volume 62, Number 1 (2023)

The new issue shares the following introduction and welcomes a new editor:

You will note that several articles in this issue focus on the identification and interpretation of specific materials and technologies. The topics covered by four of the articles include rock art in early Mongolia, bone tools in prehistoric eastern China, metallurgy at the Han empire’s southern periphery, and plant remains and parasite microfossils in pre-contact New Zealand. A fifth article relies on settlement pattern and demographic data from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to draw insightful comparisons between the developmental trajectories of two distant regions.

We take this opportunity to welcome Cristina Castillo as the journal’s new Book Review Editor and thank Michèle Demandt for serving as the first editor dedicated to this important section of the journal. Michèle streamlined many of the editorial procedures for the book reviews. We wish her the best in all her future professional and personal endeavors.

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biography

Volume 45, Number 3 (2022)

Editor Craig Howes honors founder George Simson in the introduction of this latest issue:

I am mentioning this constant in the life of Biography and the Center because when considering the contents of this “regular” issue, I realized that what began as an aspiration has with great effort become the norm. The five articles in this installment
feature writers and subjects from South Africa, Uganda, Lebanon, India, and France, representing an equally diverse range of approaches to life writing — whether through fashion, documentaries, oral histories, photographs, memoirs,
biographies, or “anti-biographies.”

I believe that George would find some of the theoretical approaches or topics puzzling—certainly far afield from biography as he understood and loved it. But I know he would be very happy that his dream of a journal that made its best effort to be international has been realized. And it will continue to do so.

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Journal of Daoist Studies JDS Volume 16 (2023)

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Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 62, Number 1 (2023)

The new issue contains the following articles:

Variable Copying Sites in Truku Cə- Reduplication
Hui-Shan Lin

Voice and Pluractionality in Äiwoo
Åshild Næss

Comitative Constructions in Reefs–Santa Cruz
Åshild Næss, Valentina Alfarano, Brenda H. Boerger, and Anders Vaa

Preverbal Determiners and the Passive in Moriori
John Middleton

Some Remarks on Sagart’s New Evidence for a Numeral-Based Phylogeny of Austronesian
Alexander D. Smith

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Pacific Science

Volume 76, Number 3 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles:

Prioritization of Restoration Needs for Seabirds in the U.S. Tropical Pacific Vulnerable to Climate Change
Lindsay C. Young and Eric A. VanderWerf

A Third Pond on the Mauna Kea Summit Plateau
Norbert Schorghofer, Matthias Leopold, and Fritz L. Klasner

Lake Tagimaucia Montane Lake as a Potential Late Holocene Environmental Archive in Fiji’s Volcanic Highlands
James Terry, Kunal Singh, and Michelle McKeown

South(east) by Southwest: Identifi cation of a New Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963 (Decapoda: Atyidae) Genetic Group From O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
Scott R. Santos, Livable Hawai‘i Kai Hui, Mike N. Yamamoto, Thomas Y. Iwai Jr., and Annette W. Tagawa

Landscape Configuration Influences ‘Ōma‘o (Myadestes obscurus)
Song Diversity

Nicole M. Fernandez, Kristina L. Paxton, Eben H. Paxton, Adam A. Pack, and Patrick J. Hart

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Rapa Nui Journal

Volume 33, Number 1 & 2 (2020)

The new issue contains the following articles, reports, and news:

Mana Tupuna: Honoring the Ancestors Abroad
Phineas Kelly

Rapa Nui in the Hans Helfritz Collection at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Tania Basterrica Brockman and Betty Haoa Rapahango

Con-ticci and the Bennett Monolith of Mocachi
Andrea Ballesteros Danel

Identifying Places and People in Walter Lehmann’s Photograph Collection of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, 1911)
Cristián Moreno Pakarati and Rafał Wieczorek

Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2020 Project Report: Digital Repatriation
Britton L. Shepardson

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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Number 84 (2022)

The new issue includes the following articles:

The Geographer as Bibliophile
Michael Pretes

Canyonlands National Park: A Multiple-Use Test Case
Tate Pashibin, Geoffrey Buckley, and Yolonda Youngs

Donald W. Meinig’s Southwest at Half-Century, a Reflection
and Appreciation

Daniel D. Arreola, Richard L. Nostrand, William Wyckoff, Craig
Colten, and Paul F. Starrs

Portland’s Post-Industrial Neighborhoods
Mark D. Bjelland and Madelyn Vander Veen

Weighted OWA Operators in Spatial MultiCriteria Decision-
Making

Soheil Boroushaki

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