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  • The Origins of Himalayan Studies

    Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling

    de David Waterhouse ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Himalaya

    A Human History

    de Ed Douglas ...
    A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from ... Leer más

    $17.09 USD

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    de Alan MacFarlane ...
    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Discovery of Ancient India

    Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology

    de Upinder Singh ...
    This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions that comprised early studies of India's ancient ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Camera Indica

    The Social Life of Indian Photographs

    de Christopher Pinney ...
    Series series Envisioning Asia
    Camera Indica is an exploration of the changing role of photographic portraiture in India over the last 150 years. It is the first anthropological study of photographic practice in the everyday lived reality of Indian society and combines historical and ethnographic perspectives.Christopher Pinney looks at key ‘moments’ in Indian photography and considers the ways in which photographic portraiture ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Britain and Tibet 1765-1947

    A Select Annotated Bibliography of British Relations with Tibet and the Himalayan States including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan - Revised and Updated to 2003

    Edición de Julie Marshall ...
    This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and events. The introductions to each of the sections provide a condensed and informative history of the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Shamanism

    Edición de Neil Price ...
    In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Islanded

    Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

    de Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy. This advance saw the fall of the last foothold of kingly rule, centered in the highlands of the island. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Religions of Oceania

    de Garry Trompf, Tony Swain ...
    Series series The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices
    More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Aborigines of Taiwan

    The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World

    de Josiane Cauquelin ...
    Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000, and inhabiting the Southeastern province of Taitung. The study looks at the historical changes in ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Biography as History

    de Vijaya Ramaswamy, Yogesh Sharma ...
    The book is a collection of essays that examine the biography as a source for historical information. Further, the biographies include those of people `in the middle merchants, writers, religious leaders and marginalized groups such as actresses, and other women. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Art and Architecture Remains in the Western Terai Region of Nepal

    de Gitu Giri ...
    Art is an effective medium as expressing the soul of human civilization. Art specimens reflect not only the socio-culture, economic and religious modes and thoughts of a community, but also delineate its artistic tradition. The present study has been designed to meet a new awakening of general interest in a wider world in cultural modes and art treasures in the Terai Region of Lumbini Zone of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD