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  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    av Rachmi Diyah Larasati ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    171,49 kr

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    234,79 kr

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    av Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    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 ... Les mer

    314,59 kr

  • The Power of Place

    Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape

    av 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. ... Les mer

    171,35 kr

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    av 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 ... Les mer

    323,49 kr

  • The Appearances of Memory

    Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia

    av 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 ... Les mer

    323,49 kr

  • Gender Pluralism

    Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

    av Michael G. Peletz ...
    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 ... Les mer

    719,97 kr

  • Siege of the Spirits

    Community and Polity in Bangkok

    av Michael Herzfeld ...
    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 ... Les mer

    118,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

    Redigert av M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    668,54 kr

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    av Natasha Hamilton-Hart ...
    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 ... Les mer

    310,49 kr

  • Transforming World Politics

    From Empire to Multiple Worlds

    av Anna M. Agathangelou, L.H.M. Ling ...
    Serie serien 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 ... Les mer

    655,68 kr

  • Bewitching Women, Pious Men

    Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

    Redigert av 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 ... Les mer

    323,37 kr