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Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia
Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on how local cultures cope with climate changes and environmental crises. The focus is on Hindu India, Islamic Indonesia, Buddhist Thailand, and Himalayan glaciers.
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Historicizing emotions : practices and objects in India, China, and Japan
In Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks' writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology.Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.
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FLASH! The latest entertainment news and more
[Ellen] DeGeneres, say sources, will now be able to tape a scene in which her character, Ellen Morgan, is seen going into a bedroom with another woman. ABC had initially refused to allow the scene. The episode will air during November sweeps. Last week, DeGeneres told TV Guide that she was infuriated when ABC slapped an advisory label on the Oct. 8 episode, which displayed a kiss between Ellen Morgan and her heterosexual friend Paige (Joely Fisher). Such labels warn viewers that because of the subject matter, \"parental discretion is advised.\" She believed it was tantamount to censorship, adding the show got it \"because I'm gay.\" Princess Caroline [Kennedy Schlossberg] of Monaco, who won $100,000 in a libel suit against the German magazine Bunte last year, lost a second suit against the magazine the other day. The princess had sought a court ruling banning Bunte from publishing pictures of her while on vacation, on the tennis court or at a horse-riding event, saying they represented an invasion of her privacy. But a Hamburg court said in its ruling that since she is a public figure the princess must accept being the center of interest while out in public. Caroline won the suit last year against Bunte when the court found it had published a fictitious interview with her.
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SPA VACATION / Getting the Treatment / Exotic indulgences at a top-rated Hawaiian resort. SEE SIDEBAR: INFORMATION PLEASE-(see end of text)
Stretched out on a massage table in a darkened room above the fray, I wait in the altogether (somewhat apprehensively, I'll be the first to admit) while a Crockpot full of oil warms to a point just below boiling. Fiddling with the thermostat is Ruppa, a specialist in ayurvedic therapy, whose intention is to brush the hot oil rapidly over my body for the better part of an hour - after which, according to literature supplied by the Spa Grande at the Grand Wailea Resort, I will emerge rejuvenated, the combination of warm oil and herbs working in tandem \"to combat the aging process and (perhaps) help to reduce body fat.\" The siddha vaidya, as the hot-oil hour is called, is one of several ayurvedic treatments on the menu at Spa Grande, added after former spa director Darryll Leiman heard Deepak Chopra speak at a convention about two and a half years ago. \"It's not for everyone, certainly not the first-time spa goer,\" says Leiman. But for guests somewhat familiar with the principals of the 5,000-year-old Indian holistic medicine approach or those who want to take their spa experience beyond the basic massage and facial, ayurvedic treatments are the latest thing. \"There are some treatments which are absolutely so luxurious it's almost an out-of-body, out-of-mind experience,\" says Leiman, referring specifically to the 85-minute indulgence known as abhyanga-pizichili-shirodara. The three-step treatment starts with a carefully choreographed massage by two therapists (one male, one female), followed by a massage during which three gallons of warm oil are rubbed into the skin, followed by a tension-relieving application of a stream of warm oil to the forehead. There's also the siddha sandalwood wrap (ground sandalwood, spa literatuare notes, not only gives the skin a delicate sheen but can be \"slightly aphrodisiac\").
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Confessions Of A Mall Addict
When I go back, first place I'm heading is Tristan & America, a Canadian chain that is opening its first U.S. branch at Roosevelt Field. The clothes, for men and women, looked to be somewhere between The Gap and The Limited with a definite European flair, but I have to tell you I was slightly distracted by what I suspect will turn out to be one of this store's major assets. Its staff. The crew of haven't-shaved-for-two-days young men with adorable smiles and French accents to match will. . . well, let's just say they're not going to hurt sales. When you get around to checking out the merchandise that's for sale, look at a group of short-sleeved linen jackets (very Ralph Lauren) and some terrific cottons in a dark, primitive print. Also on my list, the Island's first J. Crew store. Catalog fans should know the company stores offer an expanded line of merchandise, including the slightly more upscale Collection. For spring, this includes some great-looking linen separates, and a group of rayon chiffon long skirts ($88) and matching blouses ($68) that looked like much pricier goods. Another store new to the mall is Banana Republic with a 10,000-square-foot store said to be the largest on the East Coast. The chain dropped its jungle-trek image a year or so ago and now offers more versatile sporty clothes for men and women, so if you haven't shopped there lately, it's probably worth a look.
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KEEPING BROADWAY . ..STITCHES
IT WAS LESS than a week before opening night, and George Hearn had a highly unusual problem for a leading man: His dresses didn't fit. Actually, it wasn't really Hearn's problem. It was Theoni V. Aldredge's problem, and she wasn't worried in the least. \"They'll be ready,\" said the veteran Broadway costume designer, only slightly late for a recent...
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To designers, a black tie is old hat
WHEN THE menswear industry gets together for a formal event, you can bet all the ties won't be black.
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Sporty looks hold sway once more
It must be spring. Although the reluctance of warm weather to make its debut in these environs may be giving a good many of us cause to question our calendars, there is undeniable proof that the seasons have, indeed, changed. The fall collections are under way.
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