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Anthropology of Asia
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Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39213-6 | Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.
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Asian Anthropology
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a...
ISBN: 978-0-415-34983-3 | Published August 4th 2005 by Routledge.
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Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society
This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use...ISBN: 978-0-415-31753-5 | Published January 12th 2005 by Routledge.
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Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore...ISBN: 978-0-7007-0603-7 | Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.
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Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from...ISBN: 978-0-415-32596-7 | Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan
Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed....ISBN: 978-0-415-31703-0 | Published February 19th 2004 by Routledge.
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Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West
Exploring the Dark Side of Life
Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and...ISBN: 978-0-415-31850-1 | Published August 7th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders
A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990
This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation, and analyses...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1570-1 | Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.
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This is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1579-4 | Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge.
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Cultural Crisis and Social Memory
Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos
This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1175-8 | Published May 16th 2002 by Routledge.
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The Globalisation of Chinese Food
By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world. The book reviews...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1403-2 | Published February 14th 2002 by Routledge.
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Power and Control in a Hongkong Megastore
Examines the ways in of organising work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside a large Japanese company in Hong Kong, and its spiritual training, to reveal...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1075-1 | Published August 25th 1999 by Routledge.
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Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, Burma and China
This book provides a new approach to the study of South-East Asia's northern borderlands. Based on extensive travel in the upper-Mekong hinterland, it provides a...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1074-4 | Published August 16th 1999 by Routledge.
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Comparative and Historical Colonialism
For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism....ISBN: 978-0-7007-0604-4 | Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge.
more information about Anthropology and Colonialism in AsiaFolk Art Potters of Japan
Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1039-3 | Published August 27th 1997 by Routledge.
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Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of...
ISBN: 978-0-7007-0601-3 | Published June 25th 1997 by Routledge.
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Love in Modern Japan, Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
By Sonia Ryang
July 9th 2008