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17 produkter
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Av Bradley Camp Davis, Charles F. Keyes m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
548 kr
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The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three …
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Av Timothy P. Daniels, Laurie J. Sears
Inbunden, 2017
1859 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among …
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Av Timothy P. Daniels, Laurie J. Sears m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
532 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among …
Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Av Janet Steele, Laurie J. Sears
Inbunden, 2018
1859 kr
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Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an …
Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Av Janet Steele, Laurie J. Sears
Häftad, 2018
463 kr
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Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an …
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Av Jayde Lin Roberts, Charles F. Keyes m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
548 kr
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Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography …
Crown and the Capitalists
The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation
Av Wasana Wongsurawat, Vicente Rafael m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
548 kr
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Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward …
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects
Häftad, 2007
568 kr
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The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian area studies in the United States. The contributions address recent transformations within the field and new directions for research, pedagogy, and …
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Av Jayde Lin Roberts, Charles F. Keyes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2159 kr
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Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography …
New Way
Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
Av Tâm T. T. Ngô, Charles F. Keyes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2096 kr
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In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees in …
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Häftad, 1996
443 kr
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The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations-reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature-have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. …
Shadows of Empire
Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Häftad, 1996
651 kr
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Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move …
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
E-bok, 1996
637 kr
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The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations—reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature—have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. …
Shadows of Empire
Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
E-bok, 1996
650 kr
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Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move …
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Inbunden, 1996
1318 kr
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The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations-reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature-have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. …
Shadows of Empire
Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Inbunden, 1996
1357 kr
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Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move …
Situated Testimonies
Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive
Inbunden, 2013
746 kr
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The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a “downstream” literary reality and an “upstream” historical reality. Pramoedya suggested that literature has an effect on the upstream flow of history and that it can in fact change history. In Situated Testimonies Laurie Sears …
