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Soup, Love, And A Helping Hand - Social Relations And Support In Guangzhou, China

by Friederike Fleischer

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 Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.
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Tides Of Empire - Religion, Development, And Environment In Cambodia

by Courtney Work

~~23,78€~~ 19,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Set at the forested edge of Cambodiaâ€™s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitantsâ€™ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.
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Fate Calculation Experts - Diviners Seeking Legitimation In Contemporary China

by Geng Li

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 As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.
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Globalization In Southeast Asia - Local, National, And Transnational Perspectives

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 The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.
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Engaging The Spirit World - Popular Beliefs And Practices In Modern Southeast Asia

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 With case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, these contributions reveal contemporary religious practices in Southeast Asia as thoroughly modern manifestations of uncertainties, moral disquiet and unequal rewards in the contemporary moment.
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Cosmic Coherence - A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

by William Matthews

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 Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world â€" theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.
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Art Of Fate Calculation - Practicing Divination In Taipei, Beijing, And Kaifeng

by Stephanie Homola

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 The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of â€œsuperstitionâ€ but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.
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Stories From An Ancient Land - Perspectives On Wa History And Culture

by Magnus Fiskesjo

~~30,41€~~ 24,33€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the worldâ€™s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.
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Calibrated Engagement - Chronicles Of Local Politics In The Heartland Of Myanmar

by Stéphen Huard

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 For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar.
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Calibrated Engagement - Chronicles Of Local Politics In The Heartland Of Myanmar

by Stéphen Huard

~~37,03€~~ 33,33€ 10% OFF

 For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar.
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Aspirations Of Young Adults In Urban Asia - Values, Family, And Identity

~~26,43€~~ 21,14€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
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Aspirations Of Young Adults In Urban Asia - Values, Family, And Identity

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 Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
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Temple Tracks - Labour, Piety And Railway Construction In Asia

by Vineeta Sinha

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 The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion.
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Temple Tracks - Labour, Piety And Railway Construction In Asia

by Vineeta Sinha

~~37,03€~~ 29,62€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion.
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Art Of Fate Calculation - Practicing Divination In Taipei, Beijing, And Kaifeng

by Stephanie Homola

~~30,41€~~ 24,33€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of â€œsuperstitionâ€ but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.
ENGLISH

The Art Of Fate Calculation - Practicing Divination In Taipei, Beijing, And Kaifeng

by Stephanie Homola

144,65€ + 10% CARD

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 The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of â€œsuperstitionâ€ but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.
ENGLISH

Cosmic Coherence - A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

by William Matthews

120,32€ + 10% CARD

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 Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world â€" theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.
ENGLISH

Stories From An Ancient Land - Perspectives On Wa History And Culture

by Magnus Fiskesjo

155,47€ + 10% CARD

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 The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the worldâ€™s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.
ENGLISH

Cosmic Coherence - A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

by William Matthews

~~23,78€~~ 19,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world â€" theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.
ENGLISH

Stories From An Ancient Land - Perspectives On Wa History And Culture

by Magnus Fiskesjo

~~30,41€~~ 24,33€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the worldâ€™s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.
ENGLISH

Aspirations Of Young Adults In Urban Asia - Values, Family, And Identity

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
Aspirations Of Young Adults In Urban Asia - Values, Family, And Identity

~~26,43€~~ 21,14€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
ENGLISH

Tides Of Empire - Religion, Development, And Environment In Cambodia

by Courtney Work

120,32€ + 10% CARD

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 Set at the forested edge of Cambodiaâ€™s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitantsâ€™ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.
ENGLISH

Tides Of Empire - Religion, Development, And Environment In Cambodia

by Courtney Work

~~23,78€~~ 19,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Set at the forested edge of Cambodiaâ€™s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitantsâ€™ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.
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