Author: Cornell University. Libraries
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Library
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816112340
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Library of Congress. Orientalia Division
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816108572
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Library of Congress. Orientalia Division
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: Klaus Zimmermann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311040320X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : de
Pages : 276

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A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.

Author: Patricia Lim Pui Huen
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9971988364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Over 5,000 entries arranged in four parts. Part I comprises reference and general works to provide a guide to information on Southeast Asia. Part II provides the setting of space and time. Part III features the people and Part IV the many facets of culture and society — language; ideas, beliefs, values; institutions; creative expression; and social and cultural change. Within each section, the arrangement is geographical, beginning with Southeast Asia as a whole followed by the various countries in alphabetical order.

Author: Shinji Yamashita
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812568
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Author: John N. Miksic
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971692711
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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This volume offers a baseline of information on what is known of earthenware across Southeast Asia and aims to provide new understandings of subjects including the origins of the prehistoric tripod vessels of the Malayan Peninsula and the role of earthenware from a kiln site in southern Thailand.

Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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