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Family Web: A Story of India (Sargeant Beef Mystery)
by Sarah Hobson  Publisher Comments For Several Months Sarah Hobson lived in a small South Indian village with a family of twenty-six while researching a film. She observed and recorded their way of life, gaining the close confidence of the women. She reveals the hopes, ambitions and...
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Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949
by Christian Henriot Publisher Comments Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution....
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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...
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Gender and Power in Rural North China
by Ellen R Judd Publisher Comments Exploring the processes of rural reform in northern China during the 1980s, this book focuses on the effects of reform on women and how gender plays an important role in virtually all aspects of the rural political economy....
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Shire Ethnography #14: Malagasy Textiles
by John Mack Publisher Comments The large island of Madagascar lies in the Indian Ocean facing the coast of Africa. However, it is not a distinctively African island. Amongst those who originally settled there were peoples from south-east Asia as well as from the nearby continent, and...
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Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)
by M Cameron Hay Publisher Comments An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people...
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Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People
by Arun Agrawal Publisher Comments "A riveting combination of sophistication in formal theory, brilliant ethnography, and analytical imagination."--James C. Scott, Yale University<BR> "Beautifully researched and rigorously analyzed, this book will be of interest to economists...
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Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal
by William F Fisher Publisher Comments Examining the relationship between societal practice, historical processes, and culture in a Nepali society, this book tells the story of the Thakali's search for identity and their efforts to clarify and represent their culture and history....
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The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms
by F G Bailey Publisher Comments Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F.G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about...
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Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths Among Nepal's Yolmo Budd (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; 2)
by Robert Desjarlais Publisher Comments Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late...
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Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations
by John Knight Book News Annotation Basing this work on his ethnographic fieldwork in mountain villages of Japan's Kii Peninsula in the late 1980s (for a doctoral thesis submitted in 1992 to the London School of Economics), Knight (Queens U. Belfast) examines an issue relevant to any...
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Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City
by James T. Siegel Publisher Comments In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their...
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Stigmas of the Tamil Stage
by Susan Seizer Publisher Comments "Susan Seizer's moving and unique perspective on the fate of popular cultural practices in an age and society dominated by the norms and prescriptions of bourgeois modernity makes her work important and insightful not just for scholars of South Asia but...
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The Aboriginal Tribes of India
by Stephen Fuchs
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Sherpa & the Snowman
by Charles Stonor
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A Far Valley: Four Years in Japanese Village
by Brian Moeran
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Rengsanggri Family & Kinship in a Garo V
by Robbins Burling
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Japanese Rural Society
by Tadashi Fukutake
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Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and Its Region
by Adrian C. Mayer
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Takashima a Japanese Fishing Community
by Edward Norbeck
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