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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies) by James C. Scott Publisher Comments For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery,... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Symbolic Heat: Gender, Health & Worship by Dennis Mcgilvray Publisher Comments For the Tamils, an ethnic community in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, their traditional medical practices, their, view of men and women and their worship of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Women of Suye Mura by Robert J Smith Publisher Comments Japanese women are frequently perceived by foreigners as stereotypes. Pictured as compliant, long-suffering, and charming in a childlike way, they are said to be child-centered and restricted in their interests and actions to the domestic realm. The... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from Asia #11: Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale by Katsuichi Honda Publisher Comments A memoir of Ainu life over five hundred years ago, before Japanese invasions nearly killed off this indigenous society. No written records remain, other than Japanese observations, but the author has relied on surviving oral accounts and extensive study... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Southeast Asian Tribes from Five Countries: Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines by David Howard Publisher Comments A sensitive and personal portrayal featuring 889 pictures of ten tribes from Thailand, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and the Philippines. This original and innovative book embodies traditions that have evolved over thousands of years and which are slowly... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Futures by Helen Norberg Hodge Synopsis The swiftly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh, whose people struggle to balance growth and technology with cultural values, offers crucial lessons in sustainable development. This gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land known as “Little... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict by Beth Roy Publisher Comments Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The play of time :Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange by Janet Hoskins Publisher Comments Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan by Ann Grodzins Gold Publisher Comments Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $29.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India by Jean Luc Racine Publisher Comments Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Carnival of Parting by Ann Grodzins Gold Publisher Comments Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tanners of Taiwan by Scott Simon Publisher Comments An ethnography of the leather-tanning industry in Southern Taiwan, Tanners of Taiwan examines what it means to be Chinese.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Cambridge South Asian Studies #4: Land Tenure in Village Ceylon by Gananath Obeyesekere Publisher Comments This anthropological work of unusual historical depth describes the pattern of land tenure and resulting social structure in the Ceylonese village of Madagama. Dr Obeyesekere analyses the contemporary system in detail, and traces the evolution of every... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $10.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood by Riska Orpa Sari Publisher Comments Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the “headhunters of Borneo,” but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan by Jennifer Robertson Publisher Comments The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Sharyn Graham Davies Publisher Comments As part of the Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series, edited by George Spindler and Janice E. Stockard, Sharyn Graham brings us CHALLENGING GENDER NORMS: THE FIVE GENDERS OF INDONESIA. This case study explores the Bugis ethnic group, native to the... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #111: Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account by Andrew Beatty Synopsis This is the most comprehensive book on Javanese religion since Geertz's famous study of 1960.... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Perspectives on Modern South Asia: a R (11 Edition) by Visweswaran Ka Publisher Comments While the eight South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka continue to be divided by deep national differences, they also share common cultures, languages, and religions. Perspectives on... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China by Nancy N Chen Publisher Comments The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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