Table of Contents
1. Introduction : Asia and the anthropological imagination / Grant Evans -- 2. Asian origins : archaeology and anthropology / Sandra Bowdler -- 3. The linguistic mosaic / Amara Prasithrathsint -- 4. Asian families : domestic group formation / Clark W. Sorensen -- 5. Ancestors and in-laws : kinship beyond the family / Clark W. Sorensen -- 6. Fishermen, forest-eaters, peddlers, peasants, and pastorialists : economic anthropology / John Clammer -- 7. Order under heaven : anthropology and the state / Paul T. Cohen --8. Hierarchy and dominance : class, status and caste /Grant Evans -- 9. The ethnic mosaic / Lian Kwen Fee and Ananda Rajah -- 10. Women in Asia : anthropology and the study of women / Christine Helliwell -- 11. Karma and cosmology : anthropology and religion /Nicholas Tapp -- 12. People in cities : anthropology in urban Asia / Patrick Guinness -- 13. Into the field : applied anthropology and the dilemmas of development / Jesucita Sodusta -- 14. Japan : the anthropology of modernity / Joy Hendry -- 15. A global village? : anthropology in the future / Grant Evans.