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The Structure Of Detachment - The Aesthetic Vision Of Kuki Shuzo

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 Published when Japan was struggling to define and assert its national and cultural identity, "The Structure of Iki" re-introduced a sophisticated tradition of urbane and spirited stylishness (iki) that was forged in the Edo period. This text offers an annotated translation of this seminal work of one of modern Japan's most prominent philosophers.
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Revolution Plus Love - Literary History, Women'S Bodies And Thematic Repetition In Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

by Liu Jianmei

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 In the aftermath of the May Fourth movement, a growing expectation of revolution raised important issues about the position of the individual within a society in turmoil. This work argues that revolution and love are culturally variable entities, their interplay a changing literary practice.
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Strangers In Their Own Land - A Century Of Colonial Rule In The Caroline And Marshall Islands

by Francis X., S.J. Hezel

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 This is a summary of colonial rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands.
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Feathered Gods And Fishhooks - The Archaeology Of Ancient Hawai'I

by Mark D. Mccoy

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 The first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This revised edition now brings the field up-to-date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands over the past thirty-five years.
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My Land My Life - Dispossession At The Frontier Of Desire

by Siobhan Mcdonnell e Tarcisius Kabutaulaka

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 Explores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations.
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Kyoto Revisited - Heritage Tourism In Contemporary Japan

by Jennifer S. Prough

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 In the wake of years of economic recession followed by the national promotion of ""cool Japan"" in popular culture and tourism of the twenty-first century, anthropologist Jennifer Prough sets out to examine how the Kyoto's history and culture have been mobilized to create heritage experiences for today's tourists.
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Sweat And Salt Water - Selected Works

by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa

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 Features a selection of Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her productivity. The collection honours her legacy in various scholarly fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary studies, security studies, and gender studies.
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Zen Conquests - Buddhist Transformations In Contemporary Vietnam

by Alexander Soucy

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 Presents the first ethnography of Thien Vien Sung Phuc and its followers, and is also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam.
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Sweat And Salt Water - Selected Works

by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa

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 Features a selection of Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa's scholarly and creative contributions captured in print over a professional career cut short at the height of her productivity. The collection honours her legacy in various scholarly fields, including Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, literary studies, security studies, and gender studies.
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God Is Samoan - Dialogues Between Culture And Theology In The Pacific

by Matt Tomlinson

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 Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of ""contextual theologians"", exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues.
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Anatomia, 1838

by Gerrit P. Judd

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 Written in 1838 to teach basic anatomy to Hawaiians enrolled at the Mission Seminary (Lahainaluna School), ""Anatomia"" is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. The book, presented here in Hawaiian and English, offers insights into native cultural and healing practices.
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Currents And Countercurrents - Korean Influences On The East Asian Buddhist Traditions

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The Hawaiian Horse

by Billy Bergin e Brady Bergin

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 By exploring all things equine, from prehistoric origins to the present, The Hawaiian Horse illuminates the contributions of the horse to transportation, freight service, and agronomy in industries such as ranching, sugar, pineapple, taro, rice, and coffee production in Hawaiâ€˜i. Comprehensive and deliberate, the book shows the evolution of the equine species.
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Kabuki Plays On Stage

by James R. Brandon

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 A collection of Kabuki play translations which trace Kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes the play.
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Cultures Of Commemoration - The Politics Of War, Memory, And History In The Mariana Islands

by Keith L Camacho

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 Few scholars have explored the Pacific War's impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century.
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Sinophobia - Anxiety, Violence, And The Making Of Mongolian Identity

by Franck Bille

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 This is a timely and groundbreaking study of the prevalence of anti-Chinese sentiments in Mongolia. In the last few years, the emergence of neo-Nazi groups in the capital Ulaanbaatar has drawn world attention to this little known northeast Asian country.
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Remaking Pacific Pasts - History, Memory, And Identity In Contemporary Theatre From Oceania

by Diana Looser

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 Drawing together discussions in theatre and performance studies, historiography. Pacific studies, and post-colonial studies, this book offers a first full length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work.
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Bounding The Mekong - The Asian Development Bank, China, And Thailand

by Nicole Kruspe

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 Provides a class-based analysis of the Asian Development Bankâ€™s Greater Mekong Subregion Project. It presents an innovative and original perspective that will attract attention and generate debate among the growing number of scholars analyzing globalization, neoliberalism, and regionalization.
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The Guardians Of Marovo Lagoon

by Edvard Hviding

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The Kanak Awakening - The Rise Of Nationalism In New Caledonia

by David A. Chappell

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 Examines the rise in New Caledonia of rival identity formations that became increasingly polarized in the 1970s and examines in particular the emergence of activist discourses in favour of Kanak cultural nationalism and land reform, multiracial progressive sovereignty, or a combination of both aspirations.
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Repositioning The Missionary - Rewriting The Histories Of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, And Indigeneity In Guam

by Vicente Diaz

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 Examines the cultural and political stakes of the movements to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Mata'pang of Guam. This title intends to establish the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands.
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Identity And Ritual In A Japanese Diving Village - The Making And Becoming Of Person And Place

by D.P. Martinez

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 Martinez focuses on the Japanese village of Kuzaki during the 1980s, to discuss the impact of modernity and the globalised economy on traditions and ritual. She looks at the construction of identity, both of people and place, and at the importance of ritual in a country that claims to be non-religious.
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Ambition And Division - Legacies Of The George W. Bush Presidency

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 The presidency of George W Bush is notable for the grand scale of its ambitions, the controversy that these ambitions generated, and the risks he regularly courted in the spheres of politics, economics, and foreign policy. This title assembles presidential scholars to measure the trajectory of Bush's aspirations, his accomplishments, and failures.
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Under Construction - The Gendering Of Modernity, Class, And Consumption In The Republic Of Korea

by Laurel Kendall

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 This title provides a portrait of South Koreans in the 1990s - a decade that saw a return to civilian rule, and a loosening of social control. It shows how these changes impacted the lives of Korean men and women and the very definition of what it means to be "male" and "female" in Korea.
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