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23 produkter
Beyond Bali
Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continues today. Such claims, Ana Dragojlovic explains, are crucial for the diasporic reconfiguration of …
Chinese Heritage in the Making
Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations
Av Christina Maags, Marina Svensson
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, …
Designs on Pots
Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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1. Explores heritage from a prehistoric perspective that combines cultural and historical material 2. Combines contexts of looting and faking with excavated material from a single site 3. Provides an example of symmetry analysis on prehistoric painted pottery.
Eurasian Encounters
Museums, Missions, Modernities
Av Carolien Stolte, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the increased mobility of people and information, scientific advances, global crises, and the unravelling of empires, Eurasian Encounters …
Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China
Av Yujie Zhu
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding …
Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos
The Past and Present of the Lao Nation
Av Phill Wilcox
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states. Nearly five decades on from its revolutionary birth, the Lao population continues to build futures in and around a political landscape that maintains socialist rhetoric on the …
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
Häftad, 2026
731 kr
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In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the last generation of elephant doctors. Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group living in the Northeast known for catching elephants. Sometime beginning in …
Heritage Turn in China
The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage
Av Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the 'heritage turn' that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse …
World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia
A Cityscape below the Winds
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Already celebrated as a busy entrepôt and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage …
Telling Other Tales
Experiencing the Balinese Mask World
Inbunden, 2026
2600 kr
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Since it first mesmerized Western audiences in the early 20th century, Balinese masked dance–drama (Topeng) has drawn sustained scholarly attention. Yet until now, much of that attention has been filtered through non-Balinese perspectives. Telling Other Tales seeks to redress this imbalance by …
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
Inbunden, 2025
1823 kr
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In 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the “last generation of elephant doctors.” Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group living in the Northeast known for catching elephants. Sometime beginning in …
Rise of Private Museums and Heritage in East and Southeast Asia
Understanding Memory and Transformation
Av Graeme Were, Pieter ter Keurs
Inbunden, 2026
2564 kr
Kommande
This book represents a groundbreaking study of the museum and heritage boom in East and Southeast Asia.Through investigations of citizen-based respect for art, culture and history and by analysing the types of memory-work taking place in the private sector, the book reveals how the heritage and …
Galle Fort
Living Heritage and Changing Values
Inbunden, 2027
2564 kr
Kommande
At the intersection of lived experience and heritage conservation, Galle Fort emerges as a living and evolving World Heritage site shaped as much by its resident community as by its historic fabric.This book foregrounds the perspectives of the residents, often marginalised yet critical stakeholders …
Eurasian Encounters
Museums, Missions, Modernities
Av Carolien Stolte, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Inbunden, 2017
2208 kr
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The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Beyond Bali
Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy
Inbunden, 2016
2208 kr
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This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continues today.
Chinese Heritage in the Making
Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations
Av Christina Maags, Marina Svensson
Inbunden, 2018
2208 kr
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This book focuses on the contested nature of heritage through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts.
Heritage Turn in China
The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage
Av Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2208 kr
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This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple disciplinary approaches
Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China
Av Yujie Zhu
Inbunden, 2018
1837 kr
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This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other.
World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia
A Cityscape below the Winds
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors to generate new economic revenues and to attract investment for large-scale real estate development projects. In doing so, it reveals the complex and often contradictory stories …
Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos
The Past and Present of the Lao Nation
Av Phill Wilcox
Inbunden, 2021
1892 kr
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Researched through long-term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site since 1995, this book takes a fresh look at issues of legitimacy, heritage, and national identity for different members of the Lao population.
Designs on Pots
Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand
Inbunden, 2023
2208 kr
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The prehistoric site of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand challenges the narrative of Thai origins, while at the same time appealing to the public's vision of Thailand as an early centre of civilization. This text explores heritage from a prehistoric perspective that combines cultural and historical …
Resilience as Heritage in Asia
Av Michael Herzfeld, Rita Padawangi
Inbunden, 2025
1837 kr
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This study analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand).
Resilience as Heritage in Asia
Av Michael Herzfeld, Rita Padawangi
Häftad, 2026
700 kr
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Resilience as Heritage in Asia analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand). Persistent resistance to communal erasure taking place through repressive …
