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14 produkter
Gender Pluralism
Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times
Inbunden, 2009
3158 kr
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least …
Gender Pluralism
Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times
Häftad, 2009
847 kr
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least …
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Av Aihwa Ong, Michael G. Peletz
Häftad, 1995
428 kr
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This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender …
Reason and Passion
Representations of Gender in a Malay Society
Häftad, 1996
632 kr
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This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered …
Reason and Passion
Representations of Gender in a Malay Society
E-bok, 1996
446 kr
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This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered …
Sharia Transformations
Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary
Inbunden, 2020
1156 kr
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Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in …
Sharia Transformations
Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in …
Reason and Passion
Representations of Gender in a Malay Society
Inbunden, 1996
1190 kr
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This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered …
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Av Michael G. Peletz, Aihwa Ong
E-bok, 1995
503 kr
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This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender …
Islamic Modern
Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia
Häftad, 2002
529 kr
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How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power, build nations, and shape a modern citizenry? These are among …
Islamic Modern
Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia
E-bok, 2018
713 kr
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How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power, build nations, and shape a modern citizenry? These are among …
Gender Pluralism
Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times
E-bok, 2009
999 kr
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least …
Gender Pluralism
Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times
E-bok, 2009
999 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least …
