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Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation
Häftad, 2018
325 kr
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Thailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia–Pacific region, an area playing a vital role in world affairs. And yet, although Thailand has a comparatively large population and has powerful military forces performing significant roles in state and society, the …
Tanegashima
The Arrival of Europe in Japan
Av Olof Lidin
Häftad, 2004
383 kr
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The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of storm-blown Portuguese merchants in Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese rapidly followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. The Portuguese brought with them the musket, …
Wu Song Fights the Tiger
The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling
Häftad, 2013
593 kr
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The focus of Chinese literary studies has long been on the written word even though Chinese fiction and drama have strong oral roots and have been shaped by an interplay between oral and written traditions.The culmination of decades working on this issue - and using as its lens the story about how …
Land and Longhouse
Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak
Av R.A. Cramb
Häftad, 2007
499 kr
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This book examines the role of community, market and state in the historic transformation of upland livelihoods in Southeast Asia.Focusing on the Saribas Iban of Sarawak, the book combines in-depth, generation-long village case studies with an account of changes in land use and tenure at the …
Creating Laos
The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1946
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimate independence for the country was a long and uncertain process.This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World …
Other Landscapes
Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India
Inbunden, 2009
875 kr
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Due to the inhospitable climate and vastness of the native population, European settlement of India was never seriously considered apart from in selected upland areas with cooler climates and sparse native populations. One such area was the Nilgiri Hills of South India which, from the early 19th …
Proper Islamic Consumption
Shopping Among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
Häftad, 2009
386 kr
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Examining the powerful linkages between class, consumption, market relations, Islam and the state in contemporary Malaysia, this is the first book to explore how Malaysia's emerging Malay middle class is constituted through consumer practices and Islamic revivalism. By exploring consumption …
Fiery Dragons
Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
Av Sean Turnell
Inbunden, 2009
933 kr
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This book tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' - from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of this system can tell us something more general about Burma - not least …
Between Frontiers
Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
Häftad, 2010
330 kr
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A staple of post-war academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction that has come to be treated as something "imagined", "fashioned", and "disseminated".Between Frontiers restores the nation to the social field from which it has been abstracted by looking at how …
Cambodians and Their Doctors
A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
Av Jan Ovesen, Ing-Britt Trankell
Häftad, 2010
354 kr
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At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more …
Modern China-Myanmar Relations
Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence
Av David I. Steinberg, Hongwei Fan
Häftad, 2012
355 kr
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This volume examines the changing relations between China and Burma/Myanmar since Burmese independence in 1948 and the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Drawing on hitherto unavailable Chinese sources, it documents the negotiations and settlement of outstanding issues such as the …
Wu Song Fights the Tiger
The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling
Inbunden, 2013
1240 kr
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The focus of Chinese literary studies has long been on the written word even though Chinese fiction and drama have strong oral roots and have been shaped by an interplay between oral and written traditions.The culmination of decades working on this issue - and using as its lens the story about how …
Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan
Three Forms of Political Engagement
Häftad, 2013
354 kr
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This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868.The …
Pattern and Loom
A Practical Study of the Development of Weaving Techniques in China, Western Asia and Europe
Av John Becker
Inbunden, 2014
1131 kr
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When John Becker's Pattern and Loom was posthumously published in 1987, the work was hailed as an important work that revealed much new knowledge on the development of weaving techniques across the centuries from China through to Europe.The key to the book's almost forensic investigation of its …
Mobile Citizens
French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1955
Häftad, 2016
354 kr
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When France laid claim to the territories that became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to assist in their commercial expansion. The migrants were among those …
Bodo of Assam
Revisiting a Classical Study from 1951
Av Halfdan Siiger, Peter B. Andersen m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
344 kr
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The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam. During colonial times they resisted Christianization and in recent decades they have been involved both in interethnic violence and separatist insurgencies.Much research has gone into understanding the Boros and their …
Malayan Emergency
Essays on a Small, Distant War
Av Souchou Yao
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgents in Malaya from 1948 to 1960.Souchou Yao tells its story in a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that range across a vast canvas. …
Caring for Strangers
Filipino Medical Workers in Asia
Av Megha Amrith
Inbunden, 2016
875 kr
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Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering many the hope of a lucrative and stable career abroad.This timely volume narrates their stories in a multi-sited ethnography that follows aspiring migrants from …
Chinese Ways of Being Muslim
Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia
Av Wai Weng Hew
Häftad, 2017
302 kr
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In contrast to many recent works on Muslim societies, which point to an increasing ‘de-culturalization’ and ‘purification’ of Islamic practices, this engaging study probes deeply into the nexus between religion and ethnicity. By exploring architectural designs, preaching activities, cultural …
Contemporary Indonesian Art
Artists, Art Spaces, and Collectors
Inbunden, 2017
499 kr
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Indonesian art entered the global contemporary art world of independent curators, art fairs and biennales in the 1990s. By the mid-2000s, Indonesian works were well-established on the Asian secondary art market, achieving record-breaking prices at auction houses in Singapore and Hong Kong.This …
Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia
France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence
Häftad, 2018
354 kr
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One figure strides across modern Cambodian history – Norodom Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941 until his extravagant funeral ceremony in 2013, the prince turned `king father’ in later life never dodged controversy. But this is not a biography of Sihanouk; the focus is …
Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia: Indonesian Nationalists and the Worldwide Anticolonial Movement, 1917-1931
Av Klaas Stutje
Inbunden, 2019
933 kr
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Offering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a …
Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor
Metaphysics in Narrative
Av David Hicks
Häftad, 2021
274 kr
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Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of the people of East Timor (Timor-Leste) in their oral traditions, something they share with their neighbors in the eastern islands of Indonesia. Although oral literature continues to occupy a central …
Future Forward
The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party
Av Duncan McCargo, Anyarat Chattharakul
Häftad, 2021
260 kr
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Thai politics have been intensely polarized since demonstrations against the government of then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra began in 2005. Conservatives aligned with the military and monarchy are pitted against critics of the establishment supporting a more open political order. In the …
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits
Sociality Among the Khmu of Northern Laos
Inbunden, 2021
962 kr
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How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to write about kinship in a way that neither falls into the trap of taking for granted kinship phenomena nor ignores the body of knowledge from earlier research?This in-depth study uses …
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits
Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
Häftad, 2021
330 kr
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How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to write about kinship in a way that neither falls into the trap of taking for granted kinship phenomena nor ignores the body of knowledge from earlier research? This in-depth study uses …
Belittled Citizens
The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins
Inbunden, 2021
962 kr
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What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of …
Belittled Citizens
The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships?Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of …
Salafism and the State
Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Focusing on the nexus between religion, the nation, citizenship and political identity, this first comprehensive ethnographic study of the Salafi Islamic movement in Indonesia explores the role of Islamic activism amongst Indonesian youth and how it has transformed the country's religious and …
Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The Memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot's Jarai Aide-De-Camp, and the Role of Tribal Minorities in the Khmer Rouge Revoluti
Inbunden, 2022
1049 kr
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The Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1975 gave birth to a terrifying new order. By 1979, when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia, up to two million people had fallen victim to executions or to starvation and diseases arising from a program of forced ruralization and total collectivization. That few …
