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  • The Changing World of Bali

    Religion, Society and Tourism

    by Leo Howe ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’.Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work the book investigates the myriad of ways in which the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ritual and Memory

    Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

    by J.D.Y Peel, David Shankland, Maurice Bloch, Brian Malley, Susan Bayly, Leo Howe, Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College, Cambridge), Jack Goody, Christian K. Højbjerg ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Third Sex

    Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys

    by Dr Richard Totman ...
    The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition.Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces us to three individuals who started life as boys, but while at school decided to become kathoey. In The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Malays

    by Anthony Milner ...
    Series series The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousness over ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    by Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Early Southeast Asia

    Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500

    by Kenneth R. Hall ...
    This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. Hall explores this dynamic era in detail, which was notable for growing external ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by B.K. Sharma ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Bali: A Paradise Created

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue.From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world?Bali: A Paradise Created ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia

    by Dougald J.W. O'Reilly ...
    Series series Archaeology of Southeast Asia
    Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia presents a fascinating synthesis of research on the prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, both old and new, Dougald O'Reilly provides a general picture of the events that shaped the region in ancient times, covering the rise of the Pyu civilization in Myanmar, the Mon and Dvaravati kingdoms of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

    Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

    by Justin McDaniel ...
    Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD