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Tales Of Idolized Boys - Male-Male Love In Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

de Sachi Schmidt-Hori

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 Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of this book, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts.
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Rewriting Revolution - Women, Sexuality, And Memory In North Korean Fiction

de Immanuel Kim

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 In this fresh and thought-provoking analysis of North Korean fiction, Immanuel Kim looks past the ostensible state propaganda to explore the dynamic literary world where individuals with human emotions reside. His book fills a major lacuna and will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of East Asia.
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Found In Translation - Many Meanings On A North Australian Mission

de Laura Rademaker

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 Offers a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. The book explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries and the Anindilyakwa-speaking people and how each group used language to influence, evade, or engage with the other.
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Morning Star Rising - The Politics Of Decolonization In West Papua

de Camellia Webb-Gannon

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 An ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuansâ€™ quest for political independence is fractured and futile. Camellia Webb-Gannon sheds light on complex diasporic and intergenerational politics as well as social and cultural resurgence.
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Everything Ancient Was Once New - Indigenous Persistence From Hawai'I To Kahiki

de Emalani Case

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 Explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Knaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaii's shores. It is both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection.
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Faith In Mount Fuji - The Rise Of Independent Religion In Early Modern Japan

de Janine Anderson Sawada

87,55€

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 A pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. The book will open up new avenues of discussion among students of Japanese religions and intellectual history, and supply food for thought to readers interested in perspectives on issues of religion and society, ritual culture, new religions, and asceticism.
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Jewels, Jewelry, And Other Shiny Things In The Buddhist Imaginary

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 Explores the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa's commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha's bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue.
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Method For Trombone - New Edition (Complete

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Morning Star Rising - The Politics Of Decolonization In West Papua

de Camellia Webb-Gannon

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 Examines the intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, activism, and decolonization.
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Anchored - A Journalist'S Search For Truth

de Mort Crim

28,26€

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The Fake And Deceptive Science Behind Roe V. Wade - Settled Law? Vs. Settled Science?

de Thomas W., Md Hilgers

28,26€

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Everything Ancient Was Once New - Indigenous Persistence From Hawai'I To Kahiki

de Emalani Case

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 Explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Knaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaii's shores. It is both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection.
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The Dreaming Mind And The End Of The Ming World

de Lynn A. Struve

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 From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this ""dream arc"" and to explain its trajectory.
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The Past Before Us - Mo?Oku?Auhau As Methodology

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 The title of this book refers to the importance of ka w mamua or ""the time in front"" in Hawaiian thinking. In this collection of essays, eleven Kanaka iwi (Native Hawaiian) scholars honor their mookauhau (geneaological lineage) by using genealogical knowledge drawn from the past to shape their research methodologies.
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Cosmopolitan Dreams - The Making Of Modern Urdu Literary Culture In Colonial South Asia

de Jennifer Dubrow

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 In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. Within the pages of Urdu-language publications, readers found a public sphere that encouraged their reactions to featured content. This book shows how literature became a site in which modern daily life could be satirized, modernity challenged, and new futures imagined.
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Karen Tei Yamashita - Fictions Of Magic And Memory

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 Karen Tei Yamashita's novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers. Karen Tei Yamashita is the first anthology given over to Yamashita's writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by international scholars; a recent interview with Yamashita; a semiautobiographical keynote address; and a full bibliography.
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Down And Out In Late Meiji Japan

de James L. Huffman

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 A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japanâ€™s hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves.
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Kalaupapa Place Names - Waikolu To Nihoa

de John R. K. Clark

96,56€

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 Presents a unique history of the leprosy settlement on Moloka`i, based on his meticulous research of more than three hundred Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. John Clark discovered articles that show a community of Hawaiians from every island except uninhabited Kaho`olawe. Their stories reveal an active community with its members trying to live their lives as normally as possible.
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The Charm Buyers

de Lillian Howan

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 Describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s. Marc Antoine Chen, the troubled heir of black pearl cultivators, narrates his journey through a labyrinth of elusive truths. The Charm Buyers presents a world in transition.
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Teika - The Life And Works Of A Medieval Japanese Poet

de Paul S. Atkins

87,55€

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Sustaining Service Members Amp Tpb - Exploring Opportunities For Efficiency And Joint Provision Of Services Using Nonappropriated Funds

de Carra S. Sims, Jaime L. Hastings, Kathryn Connor, Kayla M. Williams, Kristin Van Abel, Michael Schwille e Rianne Laureijs

33,79€

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Expeditionary Civilians Creatipb - Creating A Viable Practice Of Civilian Deployment Within The U.S. Interagency Community And Among Foreign Defense Organizations

de Michael Schwille, Molly Dunigan, Susan S. Everingham, Susanne Sondergaard e Todd Nichols

20,27€

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Innovation In The United States Air Force - Evidence From Six Cases

de Adam R. Grissom, Caitlin Lee e Karl P. Mueller

31,08€

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Foundations Of The Islamic State - Management, Money, And Terror In Iraq, 2005-2010

de Benjamin Bahney, Howard J. Shatz e Jacob N. Shapiro

45,96€

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