University Of Hawaii Press: 52 books
Educating Monks
Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings: They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate...
by Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan, visiting fellow Paul Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing...
Theravada Traditions
Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the...
Back from the Dead
Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
China's party-run courts have one of the highest conviction rates in the world, with forced confessions remaining a central feature. Despite recent prohibitions on evidence obtained through coercion or torture, forced confessions continue to undermine the Chinese judicial system. Recounting some harrowing...
Ghost in the Tamarind
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large?
Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the...
Wild Articulations
Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Beginning with the nineteenth-century expeditions, Northern Australia has been both a fascination and concern to the administrators of settler governance in Australia. With Southeast Asia and Melanesia as neighbors, the region's expansive and relatively undeveloped tropical savanna lands are alternately...
by Professor Edwin F. Bryant, Professor Madhu Khanna, Johannes Bronkhorst
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies...
Elusive Belonging
Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage migration—crossing national borders for marriage—has attracted significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new destination countries, which grapple with how to...
Visions of Ryukyu
Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered...
Long Hops
Making Sense of Bird Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, conversational style, the science of bird migration—from the intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of their magnetic compasses. While providing wherever possible examples of indigenous Hawaiian species, the book...