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  • - Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
    av Etsuko Kato
    755 - 2 343,-

    The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. "The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan" rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day.

  • - Power and Control in a Hongkong Megastore
    av Wong Heung Wah Wong
    682 - 2 155,-

    Power and control in a Hong Kong Megastore bring to life the socio-economic base of managerial control and demonstrate how Japanese and Chinese employees adopt different orientations towards the company's authority and towards one another.

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    627,-

    By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world. Reviews and broadens theories about ethnic and social identity formation.

  • - Memories, Tourism and Identities
    av Selina Ching (Hong Kong Yue Shan University) Chan & Graeme (City University of Hong Kong) Lang
    678 - 2 343,-

  • - Exploring the Dark Side of Life
     
    627,-

    Drawing together case studies from Asia and Europe, the reader can see the differences in cultural importance given to the night, and how the challenges and opportunities of modernity have been played out in the East and the West.

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    2 108,-

    By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of teh world. Reviews and broadens theories about ethnic and social identity formation.

  • - A Historical Contextualization 1850-1990
    av Oscar Salemink
    585 - 1 881,-

    This book looks at ethnographic discourses concerning the indigenous population of Vietnam's Central Highlands during periods of christianization, colonization, war and socialist transformation.

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    2 108,-

    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology, and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia.

  • av Yuehping Yen
    703 - 2 155,-

    An account of the world of Chinese writing, this title examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

  • - Comparative and Historical Colonialism
    av Jan van Bremen & Akitoshi Shimizu
    627 - 2 020,-

    This study demonstrates that colonialism was not only a western phenomenon; Japanese and Chinese anthropologists also studied subject peoples. Comparison of experiences further helps to illuminate this complex relationship.

  • - Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
     
    2 020,-

  • - Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
    av Peter Moran
    843 - 2 315,-

    This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu and analyses the importance of Buddhism in discussions of political, cultural and religious identity.

  • - Exploring the Dark Side of Life
     
    2 155,-

    Drawing together case studies from Asia and Europe, the reader can see the differences in cultural importance given to the night, and how the challenges and opportunities of modernity have been played out in the East and the West.

  • - Resource, Tradition and Cooking
     
    2 265,-

    Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies. This title is an anthropological inquiry providing ethnographic descriptions and analysis of food production as it interacts with social and political complexities in Asia's diverse cultures. It also examines how food is related to ethnic identity.

  • av Tong Chee Kiong
    678 - 2 315,-

  • - Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
    av USA) Ryang & Sonia (University of Iowa
    702 - 2 265,-

  • - Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
    av Grant Evans & Maria Tam
    673 - 2 155,-

    Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern in Asia, yet brochures still display the old images of "East meets West". This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities, looking at modern Hong Kong through the mediums of film, food, architectures, rumours and slang.

  • - Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
    av Brian Moeran
    789 - 2 155,-

    Presenting a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, this work includes a look at the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as "mingei", or folk art.

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