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36 produkter
Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan
Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
Av Etsuko Kato
Inbunden, 2004
2586 kr
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The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan …
Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society
Av Yuehping Yen
Inbunden, 2005
2666 kr
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This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.
Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West
Exploring the Dark Side of Life
Av Lodewijk Brunt, Brigitte Steger
Inbunden, 2003
2441 kr
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Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an …
Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
Av Peter Moran
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of …
Asian Anthropology
Av Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this …
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Av Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the …
Love in Modern Japan
Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
Av Sonia Ryang
Häftad, 2008
750 kr
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This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization …
Asian Anthropology
Av Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this …
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Av Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the …
Varieties of Secularism in Asia
Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
Av Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
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Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of …
Building Temples in China
Memories, Tourism and Identities
Av Selina Ching Chan, Graeme Lang
Inbunden, 2015
2744 kr
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Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by …
Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
Av Peter Moran
Häftad, 2015
910 kr
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How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of …
Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society
Av Yuehping Yen
Häftad, 2014
910 kr
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This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.
Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
Häftad, 2012
822 kr
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Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it …
Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan
Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
Av Etsuko Kato
Häftad, 2012
937 kr
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The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan …
Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia
Comparative and Historical Colonialism
Av Jan van Bremen, Akitoshi Shimizu
Häftad, 2014
772 kr
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For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements.What this collection demonstrates …
Love in Modern Japan
Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
Av Sonia Ryang
Inbunden, 2006
2512 kr
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This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization …
Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West
Exploring the Dark Side of Life
Av Lodewijk Brunt, Brigitte Steger
Häftad, 2013
728 kr
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Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an …
Hong Kong
Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
Av Grant Evans, Maria Tam
Inbunden, 1997
2512 kr
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Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky …
Hong Kong
Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
Av Grant Evans, Maria Tam
Häftad, 1997
720 kr
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Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky …
Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it …
Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia
Comparative and Historical Colonialism
Av Jan van Bremen, Akitoshi Shimizu
Inbunden, 1998
2586 kr
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For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements.What this collection demonstrates …
Folk Art Potters of Japan
Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
Av Brian Moeran
Inbunden, 1997
2512 kr
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This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world …
Folk Art Potters of Japan
Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
Av Brian Moeran
Häftad, 1997
851 kr
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This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world …
Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers
Power and Control in a Hongkong Megastore
Inbunden, 1999
2512 kr
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Examines the ways in of organising work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside a large Japanese company in Hong Kong, and its spiritual training, to reveal the socio-economic base of managerial control. A must for anthropologists and Japanologists.
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
Av Charles F. Keyes, Shigeharu Tanabe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
2586 kr
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This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural …
Globalisation of Chinese Food
Av Sidney Cheung, David Y. H. Wu
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
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By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world. The book reviews and broadens classic theories about ethnic and social identity formation through the examination of Chinese food, providing a powerful …
Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders
A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990
Inbunden, 2002
2586 kr
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This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses these in their relation to tribal, ethnic, territorial, governmental and gendered …
Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
Av Peter Moran
E-bok, 2003
1074 kr
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How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of …
Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
Av Peter Moran
E-bok, 2003
1051 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of …
