The Japanese High School

Silence and Resistance

By Shoko Yoneyama

For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43829-2 (Routledge)

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Food and Foodways in Asia

Resource, Tradition and Cooking

Edited by Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan

Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39213-6 (Routledge)

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Modernity and Malaysia

Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads

By Alberto Gomes

Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42253-6 (Routledge)

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Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia

By Maria Elisabeth Louw

Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a detailed account of how Islam is...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41316-9 (Routledge)

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Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters

Patriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of India

By Anuja Agrawal

This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43077-7 (Routledge India)

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Cultural Heritage Management in China

Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta

Edited by Hilary du Cros, Yok-shiu F. Lee

Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39719-3 (Routledge)

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Living With Violence

An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

By Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta

This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43080-7 (Routledge India)

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Health Care in Malaysia

The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access

Edited by Heng Leng Chee, Simon Barraclough

The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41879-9 (Routledge)

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Cinema Taiwan

Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts

Edited by Darrell William Davis, Ru-shou Robert Chen

Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41258-2 (Routledge)

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Passionate Modernity

Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India

By Sanjay Srivastava

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42415-8 (Routledge India)

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