"This eclectic anthology gathers stories from established and emerging writers in China that display an astonishing range of style and subject matter"--
"This eclectic anthology gathers stories from established and emerging writers in China that display an astonishing range of style and subject matter"--
This bibliography by distinguished Pacific researcher Nicholas Goetzfridt examines mathematical concepts and practices in Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. It covers number systems, counting, meas
The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentio
Southeast Asia’s 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respective country’s national prestige and identity, international profile and tourism development plans. Yet,
Southeast Asia’s 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respective country’s national prestige and identity, international profile and tourism development plans. Yet,
This ethnography examines the social worlds and interrelationships of traffickers, victims, and trafficking activists along the Thai-Lao border. Explores local efforts to reconcile international legal
This book brings together a series of papers that reflects on the effect of Pakeha law, legal processes, and teaching on Maori legal thought and practice.
Geographers, historians, and scholars of Korean studies offer their conclusions after a multi-year, multi-country research project that involved conferences, workshops, symposia, and collaborative edi
In this study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists, and historians examine the various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking, and consumerism
Rafferty, Burns and Argazali-Thomas presents students, academics, and researchers with volume one of their three-volume comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical structures of the Indonesian
During the eighteenth century, Edo (today’s Tokyo) became the world’s largest city, quickly surpassing London and Paris. Its rapidly expanding population and flourishing economy encouraged the develop
This ambitious cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Religious acculturation is typically seen as a one-way process: The dominant religious culture imposes certain behavioral patterns, ethical standards, social values, and organizational and legal requi
Asian North American memoirs of childhood are challenging the construction and performative potential of the national experience, argues Cavis (American and post-colonial literatures, U. of Navarra),
Marra (Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics; U. of California-Los Angeles) translates and comments on Japanese intellectual Norinaga's (1730-1801) Sugagasa no Nikki (The Sedge Hat Diary),
As the New Order government became increasingly authoritarian, censoring and crushing public opposition openly and often brutally, there was a clear shift in playwriting style from allegorical fairyta
As the New Order government became increasingly authoritarian, censoring and crushing public opposition openly and often brutally, there was a clear shift in playwriting style from allegorical fairyta
In this little book, Confucian scholar and philosopher Henry Rosemont, Jr. has summarized forty years of experience studying, translating, and teaching the Analects. For essential cross-referencing of
The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilizations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, init
The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilizations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, init
This volume addresses how Southeast Asian museums strategize and manage community-museum partnerships in an increasingly globalized world. It comprises case studies from both public and private museum
While death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic.
“Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen makes available in a clear and fluid translation an early classic in modern Japanese philosophy. Steve Bein’s annotations, footnotes, introduction, and c
“Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen makes available in a clear and fluid translation an early classic in modern Japanese philosophy. Steve Bein’s annotations, footnotes, introduction, and c
The set of textbooks published by the Korean Language Education and Research Center (KLEAR) was developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology such as contextualization, lea
South Korea provides fertile ground for studying modern spirituality, says Baker (Korean civilization, U. of British Columbia), because of the number and variety of religious, spiritual, and philosoph
First published by Princeton University Press in 1982, this volume depicts the conflict and uncertainty that have bedeviled modern Japan. The eighteen contributors explore dissent, secession, and conf
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of contributors from North America and Europe, this volume presents 20 papers that provide advice on both research methodologies and Japanese society, ofte
This annotated bibliography (he final volume of the set) covers government publications, polemical works, biographical narratives, and other books related to Hawaiian culture and politics in the perio
Salemink (social and cultural anthropology, Vrije U., Amsterdam) documents the changing and often diverging ethnographic discourses about the people of the Central Highlands as an ongoing struggle bet
Primarily, but not entirely, summarizing and translating from the massive Japanese literature on books there, Kornicki (Japanese history and bibliography, U. of Cambridge) seeks to widen the knowledge
Hawaiian Sculpture documents most known extant indigenous carvings of the human figure and identifies their location in public and private collections. The over 164 illustrations illuminate the wooden
The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emp
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 enormo
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 enormo
This all-new introductory guide to the whare whakairo, or Maori meeting house, covers every aspect of these magnificent taongataongatreasures – their history and evolution, structure and art forms, sy
Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in var
Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai‘i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual protection to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries while proc
Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai‘i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual protection to Hawaiian chiefs for centuries while proc
