Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia – serie
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Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam
Av Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam.Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic …
Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste
Redemptive Legacies
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring local community life, and the budding …
Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam
Av Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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This wide-ranging book re-evaluates in detail the early history and historiography of Brunei Darussalam, the origins of the sultanate, its genealogical foundations and the structure and administration of Brunei society.Contributors draw on the seminal work of Donald E. Brown whose major monograph …
Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam
Av Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This wide-ranging book re-evaluates in detail the early history and historiography of Brunei Darussalam, the origins of the sultanate, its genealogical foundations and the structure and administration of Brunei society.Contributors draw on the seminal work of Donald E. Brown whose major monograph …
Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'
A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience
Av Roy Ellen
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered ‘endangered.’ Despite this, Nuaulu have not only maintained their animist identity and shown a …
Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam
Av Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam.Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic …
Human–Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia
Conflicting Ecologies
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic studies of Dayak people, the indigenous inhabitants of Borneo, the book examines how …
Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Av Cynthia Chou
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology …
Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia
Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines
Av Ben Wallace
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which …
Changing World of Bali
Religion, Society and Tourism
Av Leo Howe
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’. …
Modernity and Malaysia
Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
Inbunden, 2007
764 kr
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Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 …
Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia
Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines
Av Ben Wallace
Häftad, 2013
720 kr
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This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which …
Changing World of Bali
Religion, Society and Tourism
Av Leo Howe
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’. …
Modernity and Malaysia
Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
Häftad, 2010
370 kr
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Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 …
Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Av Cynthia Chou
Häftad, 2012
907 kr
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Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology …
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships
Inbunden, 2013
2433 kr
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Dealing with the complex and discomforting ‘grey ‘area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many ‘normative’ …
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power
Av Liana Chua, Joanna Cook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works …
Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
Av Nils Bubandt
Inbunden, 2014
2504 kr
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Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, …
Identity and the State in Malaysia
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a …
Identity and the State in Malaysia
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
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Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a …
Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
Av Nils Bubandt
Häftad, 2017
770 kr
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Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, …
Human–Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia
Conflicting Ecologies
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic studies of Dayak people, the indigenous inhabitants of Borneo, the book examines how …
Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste
Redemptive Legacies
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring local community life, and the budding …
Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand
Socio-cultural responses
Inbunden, 2014
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2504 kr
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Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the largest, estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. The scope of damage brought about by this natural disaster urges focus on recovery and post-disaster reconstruction …
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power
Av Liana Chua, Joanna Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works …
Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand
Socio-cultural responses
Häftad, 2018
844 kr
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Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the largest, estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. The scope of damage brought about by this natural disaster urges focus on recovery and post-disaster reconstruction …
Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'
A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience
Av Roy Ellen
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered ‘endangered.’ Despite this, Nuaulu have not only maintained their animist identity and shown a …
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships
Häftad, 2014
769 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dealing with the complex and discomforting ‘grey ‘area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many ‘normative’ …
