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The Lost Territories - Thailand'S History Of National Humiliation

by Shane Strate

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 Examines two important and contrasting strands of Thai historiography: the well-known Royal-Nationalist ideology, which celebrates Thailandâ€™s long history of uninterrupted independence; and what the author terms â€˜National Humiliation discourseâ€™, its mirror image.
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The Japanese Buddhist World Map - Religious Vision And The Cartographic Imagination

by D. Max Moerman

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 From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception.
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In Pursuit Of Progress - Narratives Of Development On A Philippine Island

by Hannah C. M. Bulloch

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 Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, In Pursuit of Progress explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does so by recognizing that, as a cognitive tool for organizing relationships between people, development is personal.
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The Thousand And One Lives Of The Buddha

by Bernard Faure

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 Many biographies of the Buddha have been published in the last 150 years, and all claim to describe the authentic life of the historical Buddha. This book starts from the opposite assumption and argues that we do not yet possess the archival and archeological materials required to compose such a biography: All we have are narratives, not facts.
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Inclusion - How Hawai'I Protected Japanese Americans From Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, And Changed America

by Tom Coffman

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 Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated?
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Familial Properties - Gender, State, And Society In Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778

by Nhung Tuyet Tran

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 Offers the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage.
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Imperial Intoxication - Alcohol And The Making Of Colonial Indochina

by Gerard Sasges

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 Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This book illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule.
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Traces Of Trauma - Cambodian Visual Culture And National Identity In The Aftermath Of Genocide

by Boreth Ly

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 Explores the ""traces"" of Cambodiaâ€™s haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale. Boreth Ly maintains that the production of visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and writers embodies traces of trauma, scars leaving an indelible mark on the body and the psyche.
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Traces Of Trauma - Cambodian Visual Culture And National Identity In The Aftermath Of Genocide

by Boreth Ly

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 How do the people of a morally shattered nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. Boreth Ly explores the ""traces"" of this haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians deal with trauma on such a vast scale.
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Tamils And The Haunting Of Justice - History And Recognition In Malaysia'S Plantations

by Andrew C. Willford

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 Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork, this compelling book addresses critical issues in the study of race and ethnicity. It is a study of how notions of justice, as imagined by an aggrieved minority, complicate legal demarcations of ethnic difference in post colonial states.
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Starry Island - New Writing From Singapore

by Fiona Sze-Lorrain e Frank Stewart

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 Presents essays, fiction, and poetry by two dozen contemporary writers whose stories of Singapore express the complex tensions and interconnections of this anomalous, confounding, and paradoxical society. These fresh and accomplished works range from depictions of traditional family life to magical realism and satire.
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Mahathir'S Islam - Mahathir Mohamad On Religion And Modernity In Malaysia

by Sven Schottmann

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 Mahathir Mohamad's legacy as Malaysia's longest serving prime minister (1981-2003) is deeply controversial. Sven Schottmann argues that Mahathir's transformative effect on Malaysia can only be fully appreciated if we also take him seriously as one of the postcolonial Muslim world's most significant political thought leaders.
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Ink And Tears - Memory, Mourning, And Writing In The Yu Family

by Rania Huntington

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 How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This study shows how members of the Yu family passed down their memories over five generations, through the traumatic transition from imperial to modern China and amidst the change and destruction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Adventures Of Bubba Jones (#3) Volume 3 - Time Traveling Through Acadia National Park

by Hannah Tuohy e Jeff Alt; Illustration: Hannah Tuohy

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Familial Properties - Gender, State, And Society In Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778

by Nhung Tuyet Tran

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Imperial Intoxication - Alcohol And The Making Of Colonial Indochina

by Gerard Sasges

108,15€

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 Provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. This study illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule. It links these long-ago stories to global processes that continue to play out today.
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Caged In On The Outside - Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, And Islam In Minangkabau, Indonesia

by Gregory M. Simon

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 An intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, calling into question many assumptions about Southeast Asian values and the nature of Islamic practice.
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Places For Happiness - Community, Self, And Performance In The Philippines

by William Peterson

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 Explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as ""street dancing"". Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how people come together in the streets or on temporary stages, celebrating a shared sense of community and creating places for happiness.
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Recasting Red Culture In Proletarian Japan - Childhood, Korea, And The Historical Avant-Garde

by Samuel Perry

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 Turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience.
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Perfumed Sleeves And Tangled Hair - Body, Woman, And Desire In Medieval Japanese Narratives

by Rajyashree Pandey

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 Explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as â€œbodyâ€, â€œwomanâ€, â€œgenderâ€, and â€œagencyâ€ to analyse texts that come out of altogether different temporal and cultural contexts. Through close textual readings of a wide range of classical and medieval narratives, Rajyashree Pandey offers new ways of understanding such terms within the context of medieval Buddhist knowledge.
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The Pearl Frontier - Indonesian Labor And Indigenous Encounters In Australia'S Northern Trading Network

by Adrian Vickers e Julia Martinez

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 Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life stories, The Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Australians came to rely on the skill and labour of Indonesian islanders.
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Making Micronesia - A Political Biography Of Tosiwo Nakayama

by David L. Hanlon

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 Tells the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Making Micronesia follows Nakayama's life through time, focusing on the expansiveness of his vision. In many ways, ""Macronesia"", not ""Micronesia,"" seems a more appropriate term for the world he inhabited and tried to make accessible to others.
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The Uprooted - Race, Children, And Imperialism In French Indochina, 1890-1980

by Christina Elizabeth Firpo

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 For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted metis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
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Embodied Nation - Sport, Masculinity, And The Making Of Modern Laos

by Simon Creak

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 This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people.
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