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  • Decentering Anthropology, by Way of Malinowski

    Critical Perspectives on Power, Place and Colonialism

    Edited by Chandana Mathur, Dorothy L. Zinn ...
    Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropologies and the decolonization of anthropological knowledge, production, and careers. Despite (and because of) the publication of his diaries (Malinowski ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora

    Edited by Deana Heath, Chandana Mathur ...
    Series series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
    Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism. It does so through ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • The New History of Korean Civilization

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  • A Fistful of Kung Fu

    Hong Kong Movie Wargame Rules

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  • The Chinese Labour Corps

    The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War: Penguin Specials

    by Mark O'Neill ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
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  • Japan's International Relations

    Politics, Economics and Security

    by Glenn D. Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher W. Hughes, Hugo Dobson ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
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  • History of India, Volume 5: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians

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  • The Discourse of Race in Modern China

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    First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment ... Read more

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