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Beyond the Green Myth
Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the 21st Century
Av Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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Borneo, with its tales of White Rajahs and tribes of headhunters, has long excited the Western imagination. Today, however, there is another, 'green', imagination at work. Mention of the island is more likely to evoke images of tropical deforestation and concern about the cruel dispossession and …
IChina
The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
Av Mette Halskov Hansen, Rune Svarverud
Inbunden, 2010
962 kr
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In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both Confucian ethics and Communist …
IChina
The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
Av Mette Halskov Hansen, Rune Svarverud
Häftad, 2010
316 kr
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In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both Confucian ethics and Communist …
Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
Av Vibeke Børdahl, Margaret B. Wan
Häftad, 2010
377 kr
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Although the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature is an issue that concerns practically everybody who reads or teaches Chinese literature, surprisingly it has never been properly treated in a scholarly forum before. For that reason …
Saying the Unsayable
Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand
Av Søren Ivarsson, Lotte Isager
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation.Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also …
War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar
The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011
Av Mandy Sadan
Häftad, 2016
427 kr
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In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin political-military leadership to bow to pressure for a speedy renewal of the ceasefire frustrated many observers and …
Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism
Av Paul T. Cohen, Paul T. Cohen
Inbunden, 2016
851 kr
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Lanna Buddhism is a variant of Theravada Buddhism found in northern Thailand and neighbouring areas. A salient feature is the belief in charismatic monks.These monks and their (at times) troubled relations with both the Thai state and state-controlled monkhood (sangha), their utopian visions and …
Khaki Capital
The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia
Av Paul Chambers, Napisa Waitoolkiat
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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Although Southeast Asia has seen the emergence of civilian rule, the military continues to receive much of national budgets and, with significant assets and economic activities, often possesses enormous economic clout - enhancing its political power while hindering civilian rule and …
Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context
Av Michael W. Charney, Kathryn Wellen
Häftad, 2017
325 kr
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Why is it that warfare in Southeast Asian history is depicted so differently in various historical sources and representations? Why have scholars looking at different countries found so many exceptions to regional overviews of warfare?This fascinating volume seeks to present a new approach to the …
Departing from Java
Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora
Av Rosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel
Häftad, 2018
316 kr
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From colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often with traumatic results. Today, Javanese communities are found as near to home as Kalimantan and …
Engaging Asia
Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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Long regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than wealthier and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that there is a greater potential for individual scholars of Lao studies to make …
Hearing Southeast Asia
Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context
Häftad, 2019
344 kr
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There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of Southeast Asia, then, the potential is for tumult, an infinity of different sounds competing to be heard. Pandemonium is …
From Tribalism to Nationalism
The Anthropological Turn in Laos - a Tribute to Grant Evans
Av Yves Goudineau, Vanina Bouté
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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Laos has long been considered by ethnologists as a unique place of study. To this day, diverse ethnic minorities make up over half the country's population. In earlier times, several good ethnographies were made but usually they were narrow in scope. War and revolution then made fieldwork …
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Worlds Ever More Enchanted
Av Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Peter A. Jackson
Inbunden, 2022
1018 kr
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In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in …
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted
Av Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Peter A. Jackson
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in …
Fragrant Frontier
Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands
Av Sarah Turner, Annuska Derks m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
316 kr
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Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The 'magical' qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavouring, often evoking memories of …
Jin Ping Mei - a Wild Horse in Chinese Literature
Essays on Texts, Illustrations and Translations of a Late Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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The late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form, there being no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. However, it is also seen as something of a wild horse, its graphically explicit depiction …
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia
Av Helen Ting M. H.,, Donald L. Horowitz,
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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The historic electoral defeat suffered in 2018 by Barisan Nasional (BN), which had ruled Malaysia for over half a century since independence, raised high expectations for electoral reform. Wide-ranging reform recommendations were indeed advanced but clearly these were complicated by the ethnic …
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Av Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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This innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (and indeed anywhere in the world). Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – it sheds new light on power inequalities within and beyond civil society, identifies …
Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery
Av Robin Biddulph, Alexandra Kent
Häftad, 2023
456 kr
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More than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the country is still coming to terms with the destruction wrought in the decade when the Khmer Rouge won and held power and, thereafter, during their guerrilla resistance to the new regime in Phnom …
Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling
Full-length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video
Av Vibeke Børdahl, Fei Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
906 kr
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This volume has its origins in the project 'Large-scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling', which involved the recording on film of 360 hours of performances by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling, Dai Buzhang, Fei Zhengliang, Gao Zaihua and Ren Jitang.Four sets of these films have been …
Kinship and Food in South East Asia
Av Monica Janowski, Fiona Kerlogue
Häftad, 2007
246 kr
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Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of …
Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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While the image of modern Myanmar/Burma tends to be couched in human rights terms and especially of a heroic Aung San Suu Kyi opposing an oppressive military regime, in reality there are several conflicts with ethnic and religious dimensions, as well as political and ideological differences between …
Beyond Chinatown
New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China
Av Mette Thunø
Häftad, 2007
302 kr
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A bachelor society, men brought in by the shipload to labour in harsh, slave-like conditions, often for decades. Aliens despised and feared by their hosts. The hope: to return home as rich men. This was the exceptional and ambivalent nature of much of Chinese migration in the 19th and early 20th …
Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou
Av Lucie Olivova, Vibeke Bordahl
Inbunden, 2009
1049 kr
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Yangzhou, once the central place of literati and urban culture, is still one of the most important centers of traditional culture in China today. Over the years particular regional forms of art and entertainment have arisen here, some surviving into the present time.This richly illustrated volume …
People of Virtue
Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia Today
Av Alexandra Kent, David Chandler
Inbunden, 2009
990 kr
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Much attention has been given to the 'killing fields' of Cambodia, far less to how the country can recover and heal itself after such an experience. Crucial to this process has been the formation of a new moral order in Cambodia and hence the revival of religion in the country. Certainly, the …
People of Virtue
Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia Today
Av Alexandra Kent, David Chandler
Häftad, 2009
344 kr
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Much attention has been given to the 'killing fields' of Cambodia, far less to how the country can recover and heal itself after such an experience. Crucial to this process has been the formation of a new moral order in Cambodia and hence the revival of religion in the country. Certainly, the …
Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
Av Vibeke Børdahl, Margaret B. Wan
Inbunden, 2010
992 kr
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Although the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature is an issue that concerns practically everybody who reads or teaches Chinese literature, surprisingly it has never been properly treated in a scholarly forum before. For that reason …
Saying the Unsayable
Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand
Av Søren Ivarsson, Lotte Isager
Inbunden, 2010
1018 kr
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The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation.Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also …
Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest
Inbunden, 2012
804 kr
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One of the richest basketry traditions in the world, the plaited objects produced in Borneo are created from plant materials gathered in the rainforest and worked by hand using techniques passed from generation to generation. Unrivaled in their combination of beauty, form, and function, they …
