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African-Asian Encounters
New Cooperations and New Dependencies
Av Arndt Graf, Azirah Azirah Hashim
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased. And while most of the scholarly attention to the phenomenon has focused on China, often with an emphasis on asymmetric power relations in both politics and economics, this book takes a much broader view, looking at various …
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia
Magic and Modernity
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of …
From Padi States to Commercial States
Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar
Av Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Zomia is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritorialised …
Globalizing Asian Religions
Management and Marketing
Av Wendy Smith, Hirochika Nakamaki m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions. Seventeen authors in this collection have recast their data on individual Asian …
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia
A Comparative Perspective
Av Juliet Pietsch, Marshall Clark
Häftad, 2025
653 kr
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This volume brings together a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to address crucial questions of migration flows and integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Comparative analysis of the three regions and their differing approaches and outcomes yields important insights …
Music Worlding in Palau
Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
Av Birgit Abels
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt …
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers
Av Tamas Wells
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book analyses what Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. In doing so, it explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country’s tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi’s …
Pacific Strife
The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the …
Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North
Senses, Media and Power
Av Carola Lorea, Rosalind Hackett
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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What makes sounds religious? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound …
Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads
Av Eva P. W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The …
Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World
Studies in Central Asian Buddhism
Av Ishihama Yumiko, Alex McKay
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late …
Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet
When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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When the demand for, and prices of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis, 'the Himalayan Viagra', long a part of traditional Chinese medicine) soared, the pastoralists of Golok on the Tibetan plateau where the fungus is endemic dug up, dried and sold the fungus to traders. In the process, …
Transnational Migration and Asia
The Question of Return
Av Michiel Baas
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring …
Pacific Strife
The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914
Inbunden, 2015
2842 kr
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Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory.
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia
Magic and Modernity
Inbunden, 2014
2144 kr
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Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of …
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia
A Comparative Perspective
Av Juliet Pietsch, Marshall Clark
Inbunden, 2015
2144 kr
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays on migration by European and Southeast Asian scholars.
Transnational Migration and Asia
The Question of Return
Av Michiel Baas
Inbunden, 2015
2144 kr
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This timely volume examines how migration trajectories in Asia are experienced and how they acquire new meanings.
From Padi States to Commercial States
Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar
Av Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1837 kr
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Zomia is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term.
Globalizing Asian Religions
Management and Marketing
Av Wendy Smith, Hirochika Nakamaki m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions. Seventeen authors in this collection have recast their data on individual Asian …
African-Asian Encounters
New Cooperations and New Dependencies
Av Arndt Graf, Azirah Azirah Hashim
Inbunden, 2017
2144 kr
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This book explores the new interactions between Asia and Africa beyond the frequent narrow focus on China-Africa.
Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet
When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area
Inbunden, 2019
2114 kr
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The first ever ethnography of the newest commodity boom in China and the way it changed the economic fate of pastoralists on the Tibetan plateau.
Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads
Av Eva P. W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo
Inbunden, 2020
2144 kr
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This volume offers a bottom-up view of the transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt and Road cooperation.
Umbrella Movement
Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, Revised Edition
Häftad, 2020
621 kr
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This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data …
Music Worlding in Palau
Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
Av Birgit Abels
Inbunden, 2022
2208 kr
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This is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, …
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers
Av Tamas Wells
Inbunden, 2021
2144 kr
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This book analyses what Myanmar's struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. It explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country's tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi's National …
Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North
Senses, Media and Power
Av Carola Lorea, Rosalind Hackett
Inbunden, 2024
2144 kr
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What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound …
South Asia on the Move
Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers
Av Benjamin Linder, Tarini Bedi
Inbunden, 2024
1837 kr
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This book expands the mobilities paradigm by centering South Asian scholarship, challenging the Western/Global North focus that has dominated mobility studies for two decades.
Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World
Studies in Central Asian Buddhism
Av Ishihama Yumiko, Alex McKay
Inbunden, 2022
2144 kr
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A cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
South Asia on the Move
Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers
Av Benjamin Linder, Tarini Bedi
Häftad, 2025
700 kr
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This book sustains and expands the new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the mobilities turn has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last twenty years. However, much of that …
Umbrella Movement
Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong
Av Ngok Ma
Inbunden, 2019
2114 kr
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This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data …
