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Subject: Anthropology. Ethnography
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Land and Longhouse: Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak
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R.A. Cramb 2007 This book examines the role of community, market and state in the historic transformation of upland livelihoods in Southeast Asia. Focusing on the Saribas Iban of Sarawak, the book combines in-depth, generation-long village case studies with an account of changes in land use and tenure at the regional level spanning a century […]
Read moreViolence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
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Are Knudsen 2009 Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come from the perspective of honour or political violence. By contrast, this important study offers a new perspective on its causes in Pakistan’s unruly North-West Frontier Province, challenging stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Based […]
Read morePerforming the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam
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Kirsten W. Endres 2011 Vietnam in the last two decades has experienced not only market reform and significant economic growth but also a related, symbiotic revival of popular religion. It is no surprise, then, that popular beliefs and rituals that once were attacked as wasteful and superstitious have again become a conspicuous feature of contemporary […]
Read moreProper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
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Johan Fischer 2009 The West has seen the rise of the organic movement. In the Muslim world, a similar halal movement is rapidly spreading. Malaysia is at the forefront of this new global phenomenon. Exploring consumption practices in urban Malaysia, this book shows how diverse forms of Malay middle-class consumption (of food, clothing and cars, […]
Read moreCambodia’s Economic Transformation
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Caroline Hughes & Kheang Un (eds) 2011 From 2002, Cambodia underwent a visible economic transformation driven largely by such external factors as increased Chinese demand for primary commodities and a strong international demand for Cambodian garments. Apart from dramatic rates of economic growth, the boom involved the disappearance of forests and the decline of logging, […]
Read moreModern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia
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Gerhard Hoffstaedter 2011 This book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion while paradoxically their practices in everyday life often run counter to this. Malaysia is no exception. Here, a political elite maintains control and […]
Read moreThe Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region
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Victor T. King 2008 One of the main problems faced by teachers and students who have a scholarly interest in Southeast Asia is the lack of general, user-friendly texts in the social sciences. A single-authored, integrated introductory volume on the sociology of Southeast Asia is long overdue. This book is the first of its kind. […]
Read moreCambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
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Jan Ovesen & Ing-Britt Trankell 2010 At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using ‘medicine’ (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more […]
Read moreAsian Cities: Globalization, Urbanization and Nation-Building
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Malcolm McKinnon 2011 Asian Cities challenges Western theories of globalization and urban growth with a fresh and stimulating look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces – urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization. The […]
Read moreSubmitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
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Sylva Frisk 2009 In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization and industrialization, and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened but such a conclusion is challenged by this study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala […]
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