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Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42634-3 (Routledge)
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International Korean Adoption
A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice
Discover the roots of international transracial adoptionInternational Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice explores the long history of international transracial… read more
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-3065-8 (Routledge)
The Japanese High School
Silence and Resistance
For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43829-2 (Routledge)
Modernity and Malaysia
Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42253-6 (Routledge)
Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters
Patriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of India
This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43077-7 (Routledge India)
Cultural Heritage Management in China
Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta
Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39719-3 (Routledge)
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Living With Violence
An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life
This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43080-7 (Routledge India)
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41879-9 (Routledge)
Cinema Taiwan
Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts
Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41258-2 (Routledge)
Passionate Modernity
Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India
Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42415-8 (Routledge India)
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Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals
Edited by Christian Culas, François Robinne
To be published December 10th 2009
Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya
Edited by Arjun Guneratne
To be published December 16th 2009
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves
By Sharyn Graham Davies
To be published February 18th 2010
Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia
Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry
To be published March 2nd 2010
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Edited by Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd
To be published March 3rd 2010
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
Edited by Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Bestor
To be published March 15th 2010
Bengali Cinema: An Alternative Imaginary
By Sharmistha Gooptu
To be published March 31st 2010
The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
By Balmurli Natrajan
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Routledge Handbook of South Asian Culture and Society
Edited by Veena Das
To be published April 1st 2010
South Korea under Compressed Modernity: Familial Political Economy in Transition
By Kyung-Sup Chang
To be published April 19th 2010
Decentralization and Adat Revivalism in Indonesia: The Politics of Becoming Indigenous
By Adam Tyson
To be published May 15th 2010
Social Theory in Contemporary Asia
By Ann Brooks
To be published May 15th 2010
De-Westernizing Communication Research
Edited by Georgette Wang
To be published June 15th 2010
The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai
Edited by Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim
To be published June 15th 2010
Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japanese Education
Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock
To be published June 15th 2010
Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World
By Edward McDonald
To be published June 15th 2010
The Tale of Genji
Edited by Richard H. Okada
To be published August 15th 2010