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  • The Changing World of Bali

    Religion, Society and Tourism

    par Leo Howe ...
    Collections series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    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’.Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work the book investigates the myriad of ways in which the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ritual and Memory

    Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

    par J.D.Y Peel, David Shankland, Maurice Bloch, Brian Malley, Susan Bayly, Leo Howe, Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College, Cambridge), Jack Goody, Christian K. Højbjerg ...
    Collections series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    par Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Third Sex

    Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys

    par Dr Richard Totman ...
    The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition.Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces us to three individuals who started life as boys, but while at school decided to become kathoey. In The ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Malays

    par Anthony Milner ...
    Collections series The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another.Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, 'Malay' context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousness over the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    par Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A History of Early Southeast Asia

    Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500

    par Kenneth R. Hall ...
    This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. Hall explores this dynamic era in detail, which was notable for growing external ... En savoir plus

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

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    par B.K. Sharma ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Surf Rangers
    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    par J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... En savoir plus

    $107.79 CAD

  • Bali: A Paradise Created

    par Adrian Vickers ...
    The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue.From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world?Bali: A Paradise Created ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

    Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

    par Justin McDaniel ...
    Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    par Roxana Waterson ...
    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD