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Subject: sociology
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Performing 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 moreTourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
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Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King & Michael Parnwell (eds) 2009 Adopting a multidisciplinary approach and including contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, this volume combines introductory material with an in-depth examination of anthropological writing on Southeast Asian tourism, followed by case studies dealing with issues as diverse as globalization, […]
Read moreHeritage Tourism in Southeast Asia:
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Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King & Michael Parnwell 2010 This book examines heritage tourism across the Southeast Asian region from different disciplinary perspectives. With material that is new and topical, it makes an important contribution to the fields of tourism studies, cultural studies, development and planning studies, and beyond. Set against a backdrop of the […]
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 moreiChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
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Mette Halskov Hansen & Rune Svarverud (eds) 2009 In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay (even disregard) the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both Confucian […]
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 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 moreThe Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Philippines: Actions, Options and Motivations
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Gerhard van den Top 2010 Since 1900, the once-rich forests of the Philippines have virtually vanished. Based on ten years of research (five in the Sierra Madre region), this volume offers a detailed case study into the dynamics of forest use, degradation and loss in north-eastern Luzon. This is not merely an account of an […]
Read moreIdeas, Society and Politics in Northeast Asia and Northern Europe
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Ras Tind Nielsen & Geir Helgesen (eds) 2012 This intriguing volume explains why, after centuries of Western scholars studying Asia, Asian scholars are beginning to study Western societies in return. Responding to the rise of Nordic studies in China, Japan and Korea, the authors explore how economic success in East Asia is raising issues – […]
Read moreAll Religions Merge in Tranquebar: religious Coexistence and Social Cohesion South India
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Oluf Schönbeck (with Peter B. Andersen) 2012 With globalization helping those who assert incompatible differences between their respective faiths, clashes of faith are increasingly common in different parts of the world. As a result, the study of religious conflict is also increasing. This book reverses that perspective by addressing a case of peaceful religious coexistence […]
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