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  • Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra

    Celebrating Dance in North East India

    Edited by Ralph Buck, Barbara Snook, Debarshi Prasad Nath ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Dance Pedagogy and Education in China

    A personal narrative of teaching in, about and through dance education

    by Ralph Buck ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This pivot offers an innovative approach to dance education, bringing a creative and inclusive dance education pedagogy into Chinese dance classrooms. Associate Professor Ralph Buck’s experiences of teaching dance at the Beijing Dance Academy and the possible implications for dance education in China lie at the heart of this text. Through a critical examination of personal teaching practice, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea

    by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe, Toni Shapiro-Phim ...
    Series series Talking Dance
    The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history. Today territorial disputes in the region including China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia make it potentially one of the most dangerous points of conflict in Asia and millions of people have crossed its waters in search of safer shores. This new book reveals the ways in which the peoples of the South China Sea region have used dance ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Moving Oceans

    Celebrating Dance in the South Pacific

    Edited by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe ...
    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands. In particular, it focuses on the interplay of cultures and pathways of migration as people move across the region discovering new routes and connections. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    The consummate guide to Stephen Batchelor’s After Buddhism, this humorous and easy-to-read book provides a basis for individual and group study of Batchelor’s text.Winton Higgins’s text offers a fresh and accessible commentary on After Buddhism without compromising the depth of Batchelor’s experience, scholarship and ideas. ... Read more

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  • Winged Faith

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  • Yoga in the Modern World

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Singleton, Jean Byrne ...
    Series series Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
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  • Studying Buddhism in Practice

    Edited by John S. Harding ...
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  • Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion

    by Tullio Federico Lobetti ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
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