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  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    Serien series Difference Incorporated
    Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared Lesen Sie mehr

    € 16,82

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    Serien series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in Lesen Sie mehr

    € 21,44

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of Lesen Sie mehr

    € 30,90

  • The Power of Place

    Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape

    von Harm de Blij
    The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,17

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    von Itty Abraham
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously Lesen Sie mehr

    € 26,94

  • The Appearances of Memory

    Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia

    von Abidin Kusno
    In The Appearances of Memory, the Indonesian architectural and urban historian Abidin Kusno explores the connections between the built environment and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing primarily on Jakarta, he describes how perceptions of the past, anxieties about the rapid pace of change in the present, and hopes for the future have been Lesen Sie mehr

    € 26,94

  • Gender Pluralism

    Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes Lesen Sie mehr

    € 70,58

  • Siege of the Spirits

    Community and Polity in Bangkok

    What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities' demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 23,75 Jetzt € 15,83

  • Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

    Serien series Thinking Gender
    Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization Lesen Sie mehr

    € 65,54

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy Lesen Sie mehr

    € 30,68

  • Transforming World Politics

    From Empire to Multiple Worlds

    Serien series New International Relations
    This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. These projects offer few options for emancipation; consequently, many feel they have little choice but to retaliate against violence with more violence.The authors of this Lesen Sie mehr

    € 64,28

  • Bewitching Women, Pious Men

    Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

    Bearbeitet von Aihwa Ong, Michael G. Peletz
    This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power.Contributors cut across Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 32,55 Jetzt € 28,59