The Spirit of Things
ISBN: 9780877277583 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role do objects play in crafting the religions of Southeast Asia and shaping the experiences of believers? The Spirit of Things explores religious materiality in a region marked by shifting boundaries, multiple beliefs, and trends toward religious exclusivism. While most studies of religion in Southeast Asia focus on doctrines or governmental policy, contributors to this volume recognize that religious "things" statues, talismans, garments, even sacred automobiles are crucial to worship, and that they have a broad impact on social cohesion. By engaging with religion in its... What role do objects play in crafting the religions of Southeast Asia and shaping the experiences of believers? The Spirit of Things explo... |
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The Spirit of Things: Materiality and Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780877277880 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role do objects play in crafting the religions of Southeast Asia and shaping the experiences of believers? The Spirit of Things explores religious materiality in a region marked by shifting boundaries, multiple beliefs, and trends toward religious exclusivism. While most studies of religion in Southeast Asia focus on doctrines or governmental policy, contributors to this volume recognize that religious "things" statues, talismans, garments, even sacred automobiles are crucial to worship, and that they have a broad impact on social cohesion. By engaging with religion in its... What role do objects play in crafting the religions of Southeast Asia and shaping the experiences of believers? The Spirit of Things explo... |
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585,49 zł |
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
ISBN: 9780816679942 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
In The Dance That Makes You Vanish, an examination of the relationship between female...
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121,09 zł |
Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature
ISBN: 9780877271277 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work contains over 2,500 entries to guide students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and journal articles considered are those written in the Western languages (especially French and...
This work contains over 2,500 entries to guide students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and...
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121,09 zł |
Intermediate Spoken Vietnamese
ISBN: 9780877275008 / Angielski / Miękka / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,00 zł |
Intermediate Cambodian Reader
ISBN: 9780877275220 / Angielski / Miękka / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published by Yale University Press, 1972. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http: //lrc.cornell.edu).
Originally published by Yale University Press, 1972. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at ...
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Studies in Southeast Asian Art
ISBN: 9780877277286 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging collection of essays examines the arts of Southeast Asia in context. Contributors study the creation, use, and local significance of works of art, illuminating the many complex links between an object's aesthetic qualities and its...
This wide-ranging collection of essays examines the arts of Southeast Asia in context. Contributors study the creation, use, and local significance of...
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Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
ISBN: 9780415646604 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.
Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore th...
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237,17 zł |
The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
ISBN: 9780195308273 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first...
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millio...
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The Longest Journey
ISBN: 9780195308280 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first...
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millio...
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Sounding Out Heritage: Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan Ho Folk Song in Northern Vietnam
ISBN: 9780824835682 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originated in B?c Ninh province, northern Vietnam. The book delves into the rich and complicated history of quan h?, showing the changes it has undergone over the last sixty years as it moved from village practice onto the professional stage. Interweaving an examination of folk music, cultural nationalism, and cultural heritage with an in-depth ethnographic account of the changing social practice of quan ho folk song, author Lauren Meeker presents a... Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originate... |
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238,82 zł |
Reflections of A Vietnamese War Bride
ISBN: 9781432797249 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese girl steals the heart of an American soldier...Kim was born in Saigon, Viet Nam. The second child of a family of 9 children. Her family was part of the very small educated middle class. Kim met and fell in love with an American sergeant. Their love story spans 2 continents, 4 decades, and brings together 2 very different cultures. Kim's father had already arranged a marriage for her so it was quite a "bomb shell" when the sergeant asked for her hand in marriage.
Vietnamese girl steals the heart of an American soldier...Kim was born in Saigon, Viet Nam. The second child of a family of 9 children. Her family was...
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46,80 zł |
Reflections of A Vietnamese War Bride
ISBN: 9781478717010 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese girl steals the heart of an American soldier...Kim was born in Saigon, Viet Nam. The second child of a family of 9 children. Her family was part of the very small educated middle class. Kim met and fell in love with an American sergeant. Their love story spans 2 continents, 4 decades, and brings together 2 very different cultures. Kim's father had already arranged a marriage for her so it was quite a "bomb shell" when the sergeant asked for her hand in marriage.
Vietnamese girl steals the heart of an American soldier...Kim was born in Saigon, Viet Nam. The second child of a family of 9 children. Her family was...
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90,70 zł |
The Making of Asmat Art: Indigenous Art in a World Perspective
ISBN: 9781907774201 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significant and prolonged impact on the world stage? This book explores the way major collections were made and examines the motivations of the collectors, their relationships with those from whom they purchased and the circumstances of the exchange. It also considers the involvement of artists and film-makers, anthropologists, representatives of the civil authorities and missionaries. Asmat artists have maintained their unique appeal through constant stylistic innovation and by engagement with new publics,...
Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significant and prolonged impact on the world stage? This book ...
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526,49 zł |
The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45
ISBN: 9780415837903 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for permanent possession . This book surveys Borneo under Western colonialism, examines pre-war Japanese interests in Borneo, and analyses the Japanese military invasion and occupation. It goes on to consider the nature of Japanese rule in Borneo, contrasting the different regimes of the Imperial Japanese Army, which ruled the... The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of... |
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The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
ISBN: 9781625340184 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war s impact on the burgeoning conservative political movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Believing the Vietnam War to be a just and necessary cause, the pro-war movement pushed for more direct American military intervention in Southeast Asia throughout the Kennedy administration, lobbied for intensified bombing during the Johnson years, and... In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this boo...
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197,45 zł |
Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts
ISBN: 9780415833523 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to examine both history textbook controversies AND teaching historical controversy in Asian contexts. The many different perspectives provided by the book s authors offer numerous insights, examples, and approaches for understanding historical controversy that will provide a practical gold mine for scholars and practitioners for quite some time. This book makes a compelling case for addressing historical controversy in contextually nuanced ways to help young people learn how to adjudicate competing accounts and deal with the range of controversies they are likely... This book is the first to examine both history textbook controversies AND teaching historical controversy in Asian contexts. The many different per... |
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858,05 zł |
Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
ISBN: 9780299309503 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 547 Buddhist jatakas, or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions, his wife, and his children to the beggar Jujaka. Taking an anthropological approach to this two-thousand-year-old morality tale, Katherine A. Bowie highlights significant local variations in its interpretations and public performances across three regions of Thailand over 150 years.
The Vessantara Jataka has served both monastic... The 547 Buddhist jatakas, or verse parables, recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate and most famous incarnatio...
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394,89 zł |
Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts
ISBN: 9781138696051 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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216,98 zł |
Tagtaginep - My Dream of Opportunity
ISBN: 9781479751044 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,43 zł |