Frans Husken Huskin, Dick Van Der Meij

Reading Asia (eBook, ePUB)

New Research in Asian Studies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a wide variety of articles in the broad field of Asian Studies, covering the latest results of research within the social sciences and the humanities, reflecting the rich diversity within these areas of research.
The contributions stem from research carried out by scholars who are or have been affiliated with the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden/Amsterdam).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136843846
• Artikelnr.: 39703608

Autorenporträt

Frans Husken is Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dick Van Der Melj is acting head of the Projects Division, Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: God's Mountain: An Asian Anthology PART ONE: COPING WITH THE
PRESENT 1 Ethnicity, Law and Development in Southeast Asia 2 Development,
Media and Youth Issues in Malaysia 3 Kreteks Crackle in Children's Hands:
The Impact of Advertisements and Peers on Smoking Behaviour of Adolescents
in Bandung, Indonesia 4 China in Reform: Structural Problems in the Economy
and Society of Contemporary Zhejiang Province PART Two: HISTORICAL LEGACIES
5 The Seventeenth-Century Acehnese Model of Malay Society 6 Accumulation of
Knowledge: Piligrimage as Leitmotif in the Indian Ocean in the Ancient
Period 7 Scientific Forestry: History, Boundary Making, and Power in
Malaysia 8 Providence and Power: Korean Protestant Responses to Japanese
Imperialism 9 The Central-European Jewish Community in Shanghai, 1937-45
PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATION 10 Reading for Performance: A
Cirebonese Romance as a Narrative Model for Wayang II Modelling and
Measuring the Parametres of Performance 12 The Maithili Language 13 A New
Approach to an Old Problem: On Chinese Discourse LE 14 A Comparative Study
of the Instruments of the Sarangi Family from an Ethnographic Perspective
15 Karma Gling Pa: Treasure Finder or Creative Editor?