Asian Currents - August 2011 (Issue #79)

The August 2011 issue of "Asian Currents" from the Asian Studies Association of Australia is now available from the ASAA web site at http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2011/asian-currents-11-08.pdf

In this issue:

• Australia needs long-term cultural policy for the Asian century (Lesley Alway)
• E-governance, social welfare and the dream of control in India (Ursula Rao)
• Dayaks reclaiming their heritage from Borneo’s devastated rainforests  (Thomas Reuter & Greg Acciaioli)
• Medicine and god: treating India’s mentally ill (Lesley Branagan)
• Pluralist encounters at an Islamic NGO (Max M. Richter)
• Confronting the taboo  (Joanne McMillan & Alimah)
• Australia’s dilemma: overseas Japanese civilian internees during World War  (Rowena Ward)
• What war? Reimagining Vietnam for the 21st century  (Catherine Earl)
• Books on Asia  (Sally Burdon)