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8 produkter
Minangkabau Social Formations
Indonesian Peasants and the World-Economy
Av Joel S. Kahn
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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In this anthropological investigation of the nature of an underdeveloped peasant economy, Joel S. Kahn attempts to develop the insights generated by Marxist theorists, by means of a concrete case study of a peasant village in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra. He accounts for the specific …
Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred
Gnostics, Scholars, Mystics, and Reformers
Av Joel S. Kahn
Inbunden, 2015
545 kr
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Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after World War I, and anticipating the spiritual seekers of the counterculture, turned to the religious traditions of Asia for inspiration.
Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred
Gnostics, Scholars, Mystics, and Reformers
Av Joel S. Kahn
E-bok, 2015
779 kr
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Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after World War I, and anticipating the spiritual seekers of the counterculture, turned to the religious traditions of Asia for inspiration.
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Häftad, 2012
312 kr
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Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia represents a contribution to a broader and ongoing project to examine the concept of modernity in the analysis of Indonesian and Malaysian economic, political, and cultural processes. Cultural, economic, and institutional transformation typically …
Modernity and Exclusion
Av Joel S Kahn
Häftad, 2001
942 kr
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This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines …
South East Asian Identities
Häftad, 1998
392 kr
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Cultural politics have undergone a resurgence in the last decade: nationalisms in Eastern and Central Europe, tribalisms in Africa, racial and ethnic movements in the Americas and Australasia have left the world in the grip of the "politics of recognition". Until this book, however, little …
Other Malays
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World
Av Joel S. Kahn
Häftad, 2006
328 kr
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The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationals, writers and film makers in the late colonial period associated Malayness with the village or kampung, envisaged as static, ethnically homogenous, rural, etc.Joel Kahn challenges the kampung version of Malayness, arguing that it ignores the …
Other Malays
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World
Av Joel S. Kahn
Häftad, 2006
337 kr
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This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia.The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationalists, writers …
