Regional Anthropology Books

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1. The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Victor King

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58057-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Modern Anthropology of India: A Reader

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58724-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Japanese and Global Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic has a large place in public consciousness in Britain and North America, so the crash of Japanese Airlines flight 123 has become part of Japanese collective memory. This crash, the world’s worst, on 12 August 1985, involved the largest loss of life in any air crash...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-45662-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

   By Balmurli Natrajan

   An ethnic specter of caste haunts India wherein caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77997-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

   By Chad Haines

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58778-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Masculinities in Southeast Asia

   Edited by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons

   This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, the book examines both dominant constructions of masculinity and the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48223-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs

   By Stanley D. Brunn, Stanley Toops

   This Atlas provides concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Central Asia and Eurasia. Offering relevant information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic worlds, it includes background topics, the position of the region in...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49752-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

   Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen

   Ethnic and nationalist movements surged forward in Nepal after the restoration of democracy in 1990, surprising observers who believed that ethnic harmony prevailed in the country. After the turn of the century, these movements entered a new phase with some groups launching armed rebellions and...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78097-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs

   By Robert W. Bradnock

   South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development and world peace and stability. This Atlas highlights the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-54513-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined immunity through racialized disease

    By Johanna Hood

    Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-47198-5 | Hardback (Routledge)