Ethnic category: 7100 books
Muslim Turkistan
Kazak Religion and Collective Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints.
Saqqaq
An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In the early eighteenth century, West Greenland became a colonial territory of Denmark. Nevertheless, a large number of Inuit communities maintained significant aspects of their cultural and economic practices. When home rule was introduced in 1979, the benign paternalism of colonial days was superseded...
Bollywood Weddings
Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Bollywood Weddings examines how middle to upper class second-generation Indian-American Hindus negotiate wedding rituals, including the dating and engagement processes. Many of these couples are (in Ramdya's neologism) 'occasional Hindus' who display their Hindu religious background only on important...
Africa’S Backwardness, Misfortunes, and the Word of God
Why Is African Continent Behind Others? (An Acid Test for the Word of God)
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This bookAfricas Backwardness, Misfortunes, and the Word of Godwas born out of serious burden God imposed on me immediately after I returned back to my village from America. I shaded tears and confronted God with many questions: Why are you partial against Africans? Why are other continents seem to...
Beyond Beijing
Liberalization and the Regions in China
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book offers a balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in post- Mao China. The author argues that decentralization has increased tensions amongst ethnic groups and unleashed much competition and emulation among local governments. This...
Religions in Asian America
Building Faith Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the study...
Tommy and Lizzy in Eden
Imagine That
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Imagination and visualization is the birth place of dreams and innovations of things yet to be. The desire of PND Works and Imagine That is to speak to children in the manner of child-like understanding of moral standing through periods of personal growth. Entertainment abounds with flashing lights,...
Alevis in Europe
Voices of Migration, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past century, many of them have migrated from rural enclaves on the Anatolian plateau to the great cities of Istanbul and Ankara, and from there to the countries of the European Union. This book...
Between Two Empires
Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America...
by Nanette Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan. As in other countries, there has been much debate about the public use of language deemed demeaning to certain groups within society especially in relation to the issue of minority rights versus...
Inside Xinjiang
Space, Place and Power in China's Muslim Far Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of...
China's Social Development and Policy
Into the next stage?
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In China, social development has fallen far behind economic development. This book looks at why this is the case, and poses the question of whether the conditions, structures and institutions that have locked China into unbalanced development are changing to pave the way for the next stage of development....
The Stratifying Trade Union
The Case of Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Palestine, 1920-1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book examines a basic assumption behind most of the critical, progressive thinking of our times: that trade unions are necessarily tools for solidarity and are integral to a more equal and just society. Shaul A. Duke assesses the trade union's potential to promote equality in ethnically and racially...
Family and Population Changes in Singapore
A unique case in the global family change
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book depicts the evolution of Singapore’s family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges. Since the country gained independence in 1965, family and population policies have been integral to her nation-building strategies. The chapters...