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by Michael Loewe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using texts contemporary to the time, and this struggle...
Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618-907
The Politics of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental...
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro
Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.
El Mundo Zurdo 3
Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Contributors include: Norma Alarcón, Stephanie Alvarez, Rusty Barceló, Cordelia E Barrera, Stephanie Brock, Catalina Bartlett, Casie C. Cobos, Marcos Del Hierro, Victor Del Hierro, Qwo-Li Driskill, Aydé Enríquez-Loya, and Stephanie Wheeler (as members of The Calmecac Collective), Antonia Castañeda...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Tacit Subjects
Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify...
Dirty Laundry
Coloreds and Whites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.
Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the...
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) was undoubtedly Indonesia’s most significant novelist and writer. After the 1960 publication of this book, now translated for the first time, Promoedya spent some 20 years in prison often in appalling conditions. The book sets out in the form of nine letters much...
The Changing World of Bali
Religion, Society and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’.
Incorporating...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true. Early sources indicate that the Buddha was sometimes diverted from supramundane interests to dwell on a variety of politically-related matters. The significance of Asoka Maurya as a paradigm for later traditions of Buddhist...
by Robert Cribb
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2000
This pioneering volume traces the history of the region which became Indonesia, from early times to the present day, in over three hundred specially drawn full-colour maps with detailed accompanying text. In doing so, the Atlas brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of this immense archipelago. Beginning with the geographical and
Expressions of Cambodia
The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing...
The Politics of Religion in Indonesia
Syncretism, Orthodoxy, and Religious Contention in Java and Bali
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics. While not being a theocratic country, it is not secular either, with the Indonesian state officially defining what constitutes religion, and every citizen needing to be affiliated to one of them. This book focuses on Java and Bali, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers...