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Anthropology of Asia


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Asia today is one of the most dynamic regions of the world. The previously predominant image of ‘timeless peasants’ has given way to the image of fast-paced business people, mass consumerism and high-rise urban conglomerations. Yet much discourse remains entrenched in the polarities of East versus West’, ‘Tradition versus Change’. This series hopes to provide a forum for anthropological studies which break with such polarities. It will publish titles dealing with cosmopolitanism, cultural identity, representations, arts and performance. The complexities of urban Asia, its elites, its political rituals, and its families will also be explored.

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Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

1st Edition

By Tong Chee Kiong
July 27, 2012

Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it ...

The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan Bodies Re-Presenting the Past

The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Re-Presenting the Past

1st Edition

By Etsuko Kato
July 11, 2012

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. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan ...

Asian Anthropology

Asian Anthropology

1st Edition

Edited By Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas
August 21, 2009

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 universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this ...

Food and Foodways in Asia Resource, Tradition and Cooking

Food and Foodways in Asia: Resource, Tradition and Cooking

1st Edition

Edited By Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan
April 29, 2009

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 kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the ...

Love in Modern Japan Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

1st Edition

By Sonia Ryang
July 09, 2008

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization...

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