Author: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Author: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1805395025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Shinji Yamashita
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Chinese Kinship
Author: Susanne Brandtstädter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134105886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134105886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison.
Asian Anthropology
Author: Jan Van Bremen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113427100X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113427100X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia
Author: Gregory Forth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135784302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The book examines ‘wildmen’such as Homo floresiensis and ebu gogo, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It explores the source of these representations and their status in local systems of knowledge.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135784302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The book examines ‘wildmen’such as Homo floresiensis and ebu gogo, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It explores the source of these representations and their status in local systems of knowledge.
Southeast Asian Lives
Author: Roxana Waterson
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971693442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971693442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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Kinship, Contract, Community, and State
Author: Myron L. Cohen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750677
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804750677
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.
Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
Author: Konstantinos Retsikas
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.
Ethnicity as a Political Resource
Author: University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource«
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839430135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe. It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839430135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe. It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource.
Lived Islam in South Asia
Author: Imtiaz Ahmad
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351384325
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
South Asia is probably the largest area in the world where Islam exists within a mixed composite culture, overlapping with several other religions. No matter how many origins of political conflicts one may find in the domain of culture and religion, there are, at the same time, elements of peaceful co-existence as well.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351384325
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
South Asia is probably the largest area in the world where Islam exists within a mixed composite culture, overlapping with several other religions. No matter how many origins of political conflicts one may find in the domain of culture and religion, there are, at the same time, elements of peaceful co-existence as well.