Edité par NIAS Press - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Copenhagen - Singapore, 2004
ISBN 10 : 8791114489 ISBN 13 : 9788791114489
Vendeur : Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Copenhagen - Singapore: NIAS Press - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004. 302 pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to covers consistent with normal shelfwear. Light crease to bottom corner of front cover. Text block is clean and unmarked. Binding firm with no cracks or creases. Soft Cover. Very Good.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2005
ISBN 10 : 8791114462 ISBN 13 : 9788791114465
Vendeur : Glynn's Books, Norwich, Royaume-Uni
Soft Cover. Pb, vii + 277pp. Good, corner crease. Examines Thaksin Shinawatra, who was primeminister of Thailand from 2001-2006 ( so in office when this book was published) until he was ousted and later found guilty of corruption. The authors explore his background, his business activites, the emergence of his Thai Rak Thai party, his relationships with the military, his rheteroic through the media and his wider political economy networks.
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Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2007
ISBN 10 : 8791114969 ISBN 13 : 9788791114960
PAPERBACK. Paper edition. 283pp b/w illustrations octavo paper. pencil underlining cover wear otherwise good+.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2006
ISBN 10 : 8791114241 ISBN 13 : 9788791114243
Edition originale Signé
HARDCOVER. First edition. 292pp, octavo hardcover bound in pictorial boards. a presentation copy signed "Hakan" bi-lingual edition. slight cover wear otherwise very good-.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 1996
ISBN 10 : 8787062550 ISBN 13 : 9788787062558
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In the light of the sarin attacks made by Aum Shinrikyo on Tokyo, this book describes the movement's history, examines the various conflicts it has been involved in, and discusses the content of Asahara's sermons and prophecies, all in an attempt to discover why the movement turned from meditation and asceticism to violence. Suggesting that the Aum case is not unique, the book shows how it displays similarities with other cases of violence and conflict amongst religious and political movements in Japan and elsewhere. Many questions have been raised by the Aum affair - not least, why did a religious movement ostensibly focused on yoga, meditation, asceticism and the pursuit of enlightenment become involved in violent activities? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2004
ISBN 10 : 8791114306 ISBN 13 : 9788791114304
Vendeur : Yak and Yeti Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. viii, 150p.
Edité par Copenhagen, NIAS Press 2009., 2009
Vendeur : Antiquariat Heiner Henke, Passau, Allemagne
Membre d'association : BOEV
gr. 8° 216 S. Orig. - Brosch, = Gendering Asia, Nr. 6. Gut erhalten.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2003
ISBN 10 : 8791114209 ISBN 13 : 9788791114205
Vendeur : Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : New. No Jacket. First Edition. A new copy of the first hard cover edition, lacking the new dust-jacket (perhaps as issued) . The text is of course wholly unmarked, pristine, and the pictorial binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.
Edité par Nias Press, Copenhagen, 2015
ISBN 10 : 8776941574 ISBN 13 : 9788776941574
PAPERBACK. Paper edition. 336pp. octavo paper. cover wear otherwise very good-.
Edité par Copenhagen; NIAS Press, 2011
ISBN 10 : 8776940756 ISBN 13 : 9788776940751
Vendeur : Antiquariat Kelifer, Flensburg, Allemagne
Membre d'association : GIAQ
Etat : Gut. 169 S., Ill. Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam. [NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, NIAS Monographs, no. 118]. Buchecken leicht bestoßen. Sonst guter Gesamtzustand. Beiliegend eine Karte mit persönlicher Nachricht und Signatur von der Autorin(vermutlich). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 Gr.-8°(=22,5-25cm), Hardcover/Pappeinband.
Edité par Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2009
Vendeur : BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, Royaume-Uni
Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Etat : Near Fine. Paperback. Physically Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6") (0.7 kg); (viii) 261pp; Index; Bibliography; In the ASAA Southest Asia Publications series; Includes: Black & white photographs; Maps [1]; ISBN: 978-8-776-94049-2 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185595|| Condition:
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen., 2013
ISBN 10 : 8776941256 ISBN 13 : 9788776941253
Vendeur : Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australie
x + 214pp, references, index, paperback, very good. The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world's longest running and most successful advertising campaigns. But this image does not simply advertise a service; it is part of a global and national regime of symbolic constructions of gender that today is seen as outdated and sexist, and bearing little relation to modern Singapore where women have good access to education and increased life choices resulting from engagement in the wage economy. The nation's economic success has been a force for their liberation. One catastrophic consequence of women's changed lives has been the plunge in fertility rates. Singapore has one of the world's lowest despite energetic government campaigns encouraging women to have more babies - and men to be more 'masculine'. The failure of these campaigns and rethinking of the Singapore Girl highlight a key premise of this book: there are limits to the power of discursive constructions of gender in the national interest.
Edité par NIAS Press., Copenhagen., 2008
ISBN 10 : 8776940322 ISBN 13 : 9788776940324
Vendeur : Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australie
Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 258 pages, index, bibliography, paperback. The West has seen the rise of the organic movement. In the Muslim world, a similar halal movement is rapidly spreading. Exploring consumption practices in urban Malaysia, this book shows how diverse forms of Malay middle-class consumption (of food, clothing and cars, for example) are understood, practised and contested as a particular mode of modern Islamic practice. It illustrates ways in which the issue of ?proper Islamic consumption? for consumers, the marketplace and the state in contemporary Malaysia evokes a whole range of contradictory Islamic visions, lifestyles and debates articulating what Islam is or ought to be. Its rich empirical material on everyday consumption in a local context will reinvigorate theoretical discussions about the nature of religion, ritual, the sacred and capitalism in the new millennium.
Edité par NIAS Press., Copenhagen., 2013
ISBN 10 : 8776941280 ISBN 13 : 9788776941284
Vendeur : Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australie
Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 270pp, references, index, paperback, very good. Hot Science, High Water explores the work of different generations of Vietnamese scientists as they engage with local and international efforts to conserve nature, address climate change, and carry out scientific research. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in universities, government offices, and foreign embassies, as well as the muddy intertidal zones of coastal Vietnam, the study reveals scientists engaged in a politics of nature that is local and global, contemporary and historical, and natural and social. More generally, this book is an ethnography of science in a developing country grappling with the local implications of global networks of knowledge production, and shifting trends in international development policy.
Edité par Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2007
Vendeur : Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Allemagne
Membre d'association : GIAQ
Softcover/Paperback. rev. Ed. 293 pages. Sehr guter Zustand. Minimale Lager- bzw. Gebrauchsspuren. / Very good. Minimal wear. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560.
Edité par Copenhagen, NIAS Press 2008 illustrated, 2008
Vendeur : Antiquarian Bookshop Klikspaan, Leiden, Pays-Bas
Edition originale
1st ed. - With bibliogr., index. - Softcover, as new.
Edité par Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2010
Vendeur : Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Allemagne
Membre d'association : GIAQ
Softcover/Paperback. 271 pages. Sehr guter Zustand. Minimale Lager- bzw. Gebrauchsspuren. / Very good. Minimal wear. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 520.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2022
ISBN 10 : 8776943143 ISBN 13 : 9788776943141
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The magical qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights. Demystifies the contemporary spice trade by tracing three spices from their cultivation in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands and along complex commodity chains to kitchens around the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2021
ISBN 10 : 8776943054 ISBN 13 : 9788776943059
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Recent studies of Indonesian Islam have pointed to the growing prominence of conservative and globally expansive Islamic doctrines. Salafism is one such doctrine, and it has gained increasing popularity in Indonesia over the past several decades. Aiming to propagate a literalist interpretation of Islam, Salafi activists argue that many local Islamic traditions, histories and cultures are unIslamic. This has led to significant controversy, and accusations by many Indonesians that Salafism is foreign to country, an intolerant religion, and should have no part in the religious life of the nation.This book offers an ethnographic study of this often misunderstood and controversial movement. It explains why Salafism is growing in numbers, especially amongst young people, and how Salafi activists promote their faith within the wider public. It explores the range of propagational activities and products Salafis use in their public outreach, including literature, mosque sermons, social media ventures, and even fashion, and describes how these activities are tailored to a young Indonesian audience. Salafis may have global roots, but as this book outlines, its success in Indonesia is best understood as an intrinsically local phenomenon entangled within Indonesian ideas of Islamic praxis, consumerism, modernity, political action and citizenship. Salafi activists do not see themselves as foreign religious agents or detached from Indonesian life, but increasingly as part of a religiously conservative moral vanguard. Salafism is, consequently, part of the broader re-orientation of social, cultural and political life we are seeing in contemporary Indonesia. Focusing on the nexus between religion, the nation, citizenship and political identity, this first comprehensive ethnographic study of the Salafi Islamic movement in Indonesia explores the role of Islamic activism amongst Indonesian youth and how it has transformed the countrys religious and political discourse. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2014., 2014
ISBN 10 : 8776941434 ISBN 13 : 9788776941437
Vendeur : Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australie
8vo. 236pp. A very good hardback copy.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2016
ISBN 10 : 8776941876 ISBN 13 : 9788776941871
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This detailed study charts the evolution of internationally assisted elections in Cambodia beginning in 1993 with the vote supervised by the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC). Although the UNTAC operation was unprecedented in its size and political scope, the less-than-democratic outcome of the 1993 vote (with Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party losing but remaining in power) began two decades of internationally assisted elections manipulated and controlled by Hun Sen and the CPP. Since then, disparate international actors have been complicit in supporting 'authoritarian elections' while promoting a more democratic and transparent electoral process. This has produced a relatively stable political-economic system serving the interests of a powerful and wealthy ruling elite but at the expense of overall positive socio-economic and political change. It has also allowed opposition forces to co-exist alongside a repressive state and to compete in elections that still hold out the possibility for change. This detailed study charts the evolution of internationally assisted elections in Cambodia beginning in 1993 with the vote supervised by the United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Edité par Nias Press., Copenhagen., 2006
Vendeur : Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australie
xvii + 258pp, appendix, references, index, a very good paperback copy.
Edité par Copenhagen, NIAS Press 2008 illustrated, 2008
Vendeur : Antiquarian Bookshop Klikspaan, Leiden, Pays-Bas
Edition originale
1st ed. - 238 pages. - With bibliogr., index. - (NIAS Monograph series ; 112). - Hardcover, new.
Edité par NIAS Press., Copenhagen., 2007
Vendeur : Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australie
Maps, xii + 281pp, index, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good paperback copy.
Edité par Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2008
ISBN 10 : 8791114896 ISBN 13 : 9788791114892
Vendeur : Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. xix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. owner's name in pen, else As New.
Edité par Nias Press, Copenhagen, 2012
ISBN 10 : 8776940888 ISBN 13 : 9788776940881
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Light edge wear. ; Gendering Asia Series No. 7; 1.2 x 9 x 6.2 Inches; 370 pages.
Edité par Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2006
ISBN 10 : 8791114853 ISBN 13 : 9788791114854
Vendeur : Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 251 pages : 21 cm. owner's name in pen, else As New.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2022
ISBN 10 : 8776943089 ISBN 13 : 9788776943080
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmars largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies. Details the very prominent roles that gay men and trans women are playing in the spirit medium cults rapidly growing in Myanmar, Thailand and other parts of Buddhist Southeast Asia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Edité par Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2018
ISBN 10 : 8776942465 ISBN 13 : 9788776942465
Vendeur : Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Royaume-Uni
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. XIII-288 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm. 'From colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often with traumatic results. Today, Javanese communities are found as close as Kalimantan and as far away as Suriname and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, migrant workers from Java continue to travel abroad, finding short-term employment in places like Malaysia and the Middle East. This volume traces the different ways in which Javanese migrants and migrant communities are connected in their host society and with Java as a real or imagined authoritative source of norms, values and loyalties. It underlines the importance of diaspora as a process in order to understand the evolving notions of a Javanese homeland across time and space. Even though Java as the point of departure links the different contributions, their focus is more on the process of migration and the experiences of Javanese migrants in the countries of destination.'.
Edité par NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2016
ISBN 10 : 8776941892 ISBN 13 : 9788776941895
Vendeur : Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin political-military leadership to bow to pressure for a speedy renewal of the ceasefire frustrated many observers and policy makers, who hoped to see a national ceasefire agreement signed between the Myanmar government and the countrys principle armed ethnic organisations. Yet since the ceasefire collapsed, surprisingly little attention has been paid to understanding in detail the experience of the previous 17 years of ceasefire in the Kachin region and how this has influenced local political and military attitudes, or the continuing significance of these experiences in relation to the ongoing national peace process in Myanmar.This book brings together local activists with international academics and acclaimed independent researchers to reflect on these experiences from a variety of cultural, political, economic and social perspectives. Collectively, the authors shed critical light upon the reasons why an area that was once considered an important collaborator in the goal of political transition in Myanmar should most recently have seen the return of significant popular support for a resumption of armed conflict.The arguments and insights that the book offers raise important questions about the social, economic and political development of Myanmars border regions in recent years that will be relevant long into the future, including after a nationwide ceasefire may be signed. Crucially, the chapters provide important lessons about the dangers inherent in ceasefire agreements when an armed peace is implemented that is not accompanied by a substantive commitment to political change. In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. Since, little attention has been paid to understanding the experience of the previous 17 years of ceasefire in the Kachin region and how this has influenced attitudes, or the ongoing national peace process in Myanmar. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.