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31 produkter
Saving Buddhism
The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Av Alicia Turner, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
302 kr
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sasana, the life of the Buddha’s …
Dissociated Identities
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society
E-bok, 2026
830 kr
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Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world. What the state''s policies on culture and religion mean to Karo women and men, who now live …
Natural Potency and Political Power
Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
Av Sarinda Singh, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
514 kr
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia
Av L. Ayu Saraswati, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a …
Potent Landscapes
Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Av Catherine Allerton, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far …
Forest of Struggle
Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia
Av Eve Monique Zucker, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
311 kr
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In a village community in the highlands of Cambodia’s Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
616 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media fi gures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the …
Ghosts of the New City
Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai
Av Andrew Alan Johnson, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
285 kr
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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In …
Essential Trade
Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
Av Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
273 kr
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“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Bȇn Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped …
Siam's New Detectives
Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand
Av Samson W. Lim, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
771 kr
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Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
908 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
273 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
Uprooted
Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
Av Christina Elizabeth Firpo, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons—death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because …
Caged in on the Outside
Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Av Gregory M. Simon, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
302 kr
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Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon’s book, based on …
Familial Properties
Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778
Av Nhung Tuyet Tran, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
355 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media figures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the Western-dominated …
Dissociated Identities
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society
Häftad, 1996
472 kr
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Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world. What the state's policies on culture and religion mean to Karo women and men, who now live in …
Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission
The Karo Field
Inbunden, 1990
1052 kr
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This fascinating story of a Dutch Reformed mission among the Karo of North Sumatra chronicles the field’s first fifteen years – 1889–1904. Plantation executives sponsored the mission, hoping to enlist the Karo as Christian allies in a colonial war against Muslim “fanatics.” But the Karo hated the …
Sounding Out Heritage
Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of 'Quan Ho' Folk Song in Northern Vietnam
Av Lauren Meeker, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
529 kr
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Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originated in B?c Ninh province, northern Vietnam. The book delves into the rich and complicated history of quan h?, showing the changes it has undergone over …
Perfect Business?
Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Av Sverre Molland, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
305 kr
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For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organisations and governments commonly …
Caged in on the Outside
Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Av Gregory M. Simon, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
908 kr
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Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon’s book, based on …
Embodied Nation
Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos
Av Simon Creak, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
908 kr
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This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country’s extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens …
Saving Buddhism
The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Av Alicia Turner, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
908 kr
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha’s …
Uprooted
Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
Av Christina Elizabeth Firpo, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
935 kr
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For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons—death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because …
Forging Islamic Power and Place
The Legacy of Shaykh Daud Bin ‘Abd Allah Al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia
Av Francis Bradley, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
598 kr
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Forging Islamic Power and Place/ charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern …
Imperial Intoxication
Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina
Av Gerard Sasges, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
978 kr
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Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, …
Familial Properties
Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778
Av Nhung Tuyet Tran, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
935 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own …
Embodied Nation
Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos
Av Simon Creak, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
340 kr
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This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens …
