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Mary, The Devil, And Taro - Catholicism And Women'S Work In A Micronesian Society

by Juliana Flinn

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 Catholicism, like most world religions, is patriarchal, and its official hierarchies and sacred works too often neglect the lived experiences of women. Looking beyond these texts, this title reveals how women practice, interpret, and shape their own Catholicism on Pollap Atoll, part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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Tea In China - A Religious And Cultural History

by James A. Benn

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 Explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it.
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Out Of Bounds - Anglo-Indian Literature And The Geography Of Displacement

by Alan G. Johnson

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The Arts Of Kingship - Hawaiian Art And National Culture Of The Kalakaua Era

by Stacy L. Kamehiro

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 Offers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalakaua, the cosmopolitan ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. This title provides visual and historical analysis of four key monuments - Kalakaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, 'Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum.
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Creating Mexican Consumer Culture In The Age Of Porfirio Diaz

by Steven B. Bunker

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 Steven Bunker's study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that "incredible things are happening in this world."
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Screen Of Kings - Royal Art And Power In Ming China

by Craig Clunas

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Water, Snow, Water : Constructive Living For Mental Health - Constructive Living For Mental Health

by David K. Reynolds

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 This book expands on the ideas originally expounded in the authors earlier book Constructive Living which is still in print. While the earlier book allows readers to make the best of what life allows in many areas of life, this book specifically address
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The Aesthetics Of Strangeness - Eccentricity And Madness In Early Modern Japan

by W. Puck Brecher

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 This book provides a corrective to existing scholarship on eccentric artists by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic strangeness during the mid Edo period. It explains how through the period, eccentricity and madness developed and
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Dark Writing - Geography, Performance, Design

by Paul Carter

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 We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This book argues that this is a serious omission because they are designs on the world.
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Selves In Question - Interviews On Southern African Auto/Biography

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 Considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.
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Postcolonizing The International - Working To Change The Way We Are

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 Brings post-colonialism into engagement with contemporary international studies, while at the same time reflecting on the discourse, noting certain blindspots and shortcomings in critique. This book begins with the position of non-European societies and the legacies of colonialism. It includes two essays on knowledge formations.
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Crowning The Nice Girl - Gender, Ethnicity, And Culture In Hawaii'S Cherry Blossom Festival

by Christine R. Yano

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 In 1953, members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Pageant. This work analyzes the pageant through its decades of development within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. It paints a portrait of not only a beauty pageant, but also a community.
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Postcolonizing The International - Working To Change The Way We Are

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 Brings post-colonialism into engagement with contemporary international studies, while at the same time reflecting on the discourse, noting certain blindspots and shortcomings in critique. This book begins with the position of non-European societies and the legacies of colonialism. It includes two essays on knowledge formations.
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Japanese Cinema In The Digital Age

by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

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 This book deliberates on the role of the transnational in bringing to the mainstream what were formerly marginal Japanese B movie genres.
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The Value Of Hawai'I - Knowing The Past, Shaping The Future

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Making Faces - Self And Image Creation In A Himalayan Valley

by Alka Hingorani

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 Taberam Soni, Labh Singh, Amar Singh, and other artists live and work in the hill-villages of the lower Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh, India. There they fashion face-images of deities out of thin sheets of precious metal. Making Faces tells the story of these god-makers, the gods they make, and the communities that participate in the creative process and its accompanying rituals.
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Mediating Across Difference - Oceanic And Asian Approaches To Conflict Resolution

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Moving Images - John Layard, Fieldwork And Photography On Malakula Since 1914

by Geismar

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Gods, Ghosts, And Gangsters - Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, And Masculinity On The Margins Of Chinese Society

by Avron Boretz

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 Offers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselvesâ€"mostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangsâ€"link martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society.
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Imperial Archipelago - Representation And Rule In The Insular Territories Under U. S. Dominion After 1898

by Lanny Thompson

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 Provides a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the US in each at the turn of the century.
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Mediating Across Difference - Oceanic And Asian Approaches To Conflict Resolution

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 Explores how to deal adequately with conflict, and particularly with the challenge of cultural and other differences. The contributorsâ€™ response to the challenge of conflict and cultural differenceâ€"and the main objective of this bookâ€"is to introduce and explore some of the rich insights into conflict resolution emanating from Asia and Oceania.
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Modern Buddhist Conjunctures In Myanmar - Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, And Civil Society

by Juliane Schober

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 Examines the moments in the modern history of Myanmar when religion, culture, and politics converge to chart new directions. Arguing against Max Weberâ€™s characterization of Buddhism as other-worldly and divorced from politics, this study shows that Buddhist practice necessitates public validation within an economy of merit in which moral action earns future rewards.
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Gods, Ghosts, And Gangsters - Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, And Masculinity On The Margins Of Chinese Society

by Avron Boretz

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 Offers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselves-mostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangs-link martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society.
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Polygamy And Sublime Passion - Sexuality In China On The Verge Of Modernity

by Keith Mcmahon

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 For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male'. This title introduces a fresh concept, 'passive polygamy', to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man's desires, turning him into an instrument of female will.
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