"This volume provides the first full-length account in English of British-Japanese interchange in Nagasaki, Japan's closest port to the Asian continent, the only 'open window' to the world during the
This Pioneering Ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of the changing social, political and organizational topography of western China. The seismic changes wrought across this terrain
In this important new study on the peoples of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), David Gullette exposes significant misconceptions that have hitherto shaped Western understanding about the role of kin
Hangartner (social anthropology, U. of Bern, Switzerland) has visited Mongolia regularly since 1996, traveling extensively by horseback and sharing the daily life of herding families. She analyzes the
Despite the fact that there are several newer dictionaries of Written Mongolian, such as Lessing 1960, and BAMRS 2001-02, Schmidt's dictionary, the first of its kind, remains an important contribution
"This volume provides the first full-length account in English of British-Japanese interchange in Nagasaki, Japan's closest port to the Asian continent, the only 'open window' to the world during the
