Author: Kee Howe Yong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487556152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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In Thailand’s Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand’s far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities – and thus majority – and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss, violence, history, memory, livelihood, fear and paranoia, and political formations. The book explores the ways in which regimes of fear affect the way minorities relate to one another and to those in authority. It reveals how Muslim identities in southern Thailand are produced – under what constraints and structures, and by what technologies and force. Drawing on methodologies of narrative theory, performative aspects of language, and questions of history and memory, Yong demonstrates the ways the conflict was and is differently engaged by Malay Muslim interlocutors. The book addresses the generally ignored topic of the varied positions of the Malay Muslims at the borderland of Thailand’s far south and the implications of these positions in understanding the meaning of the current insurgency for the heterogeneous Malay Muslim population. In doing so, Thailand’s Far South provides an invaluable contribution to the southern Thai conflict, fieldwork in conflict zones, and the literature on violence, political science, history, security studies, and philosophies of violence.
Author: David Enrique Spellman
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847657729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Gerardo Fischer is missing. Can you help? Theater director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists' colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new work. No note. No warning. No trace. His colleagues are frightened for him, so they call in Juan Manuel Pérez, an ex-cop, now private investigator. Far South is Pérez's casebook, compiled as he searches for Fischer. Read the book. Follow the links and QR codes to access short films, audio recordings and YouTube videos. Trust no-one. Question everything. Be a part of the mystery.
Author: Christopher M. Joll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400724853
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand’s Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani’s oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal 'ibadat. Concerning the rationale for merit-making, merit-makers are motivated by both a desire to ensure their own comfort in the grave and personal vindication at judgment, as well as to transfer merit for those already in the grave, who are known to the merit-maker. While the rhetoric elements of Muslim merit-making reveal Thai influence, its ritual elements confirm the local impact of reformist activism.
Author: Emerson Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Emerson Bennett
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: Sylvia Wilson Thomson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480804495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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From a bluff overlooking Mobile Bay, Caroline Colson reflects on a troubling and disturbing summer, filled with rumors of war. Although threats and rumors about the Yankees and secession from the Union continue to plague her village, Caroline still believes she lives too far south to be touched by war. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. When their young son dies in a tragic accident, Carolines husband, Cameron, is lost within the darkness of overwhelming grief and blames a young slave named Edmund for the death. The boy is sent away from the house and from his mother, Bertha, a household slave, after the accident. The boy soon goes missing, which sends Bertha down a heartbreaking path to search for him, examine her life, and question her self-worth. Meanwhile, Caroline is left to battle her own grief and deal with Cameron, who has transformed into an angry, bitter man. As war begins, Cameron, a respected maritime lawyer and patriot, boards the CSS Alabama where his fate awaits. Too Far South tells the story of a Southern Alabama familys determination to survive the Civil War despite the blockade of Mobile Bay. The anxiety and apprehension of an invasion by the Federal fleet to encounter Confederate Forces in a battle for Mobile Bay, affected all.
Author: Brandon Presser
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541758595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch—even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.
Author: Elizabeth Leane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781857431339
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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A unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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