Author: Edward Tuite Dalton
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Michael Wesley
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468313452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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An essential road map to modern Asia’s dynamic transition on the world stage from the foreign policy expert and author of There Goes the Neighbourhood. The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia’s during recent decades. Home to three-fifths of the global population, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world’s economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the world combined. All but three of the planet’s current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region. Yet, surprisingly little has been written about the future of Asia. Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political, and strategic trends across the world’s largest continent, providing the necessary framework for thinking about the future of Asia—and the world. A professor of international affairs at Australian National University, Michael Wesley looks at the psychology of Asian countries becoming newly rich and powerful. He explores the geography and politics of conflict, and offers persuasive ideas about how to avert dispute, or even war. Written for general readers and policy specialists alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book about international affairs in the twenty-first century.

Author: Lars Krutak
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824897951
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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For millennia, tattoos have documented the history of humanity one painful mark at a time. They form a visual language on the skin, expressing an individual’s desires and fears as well as cultural values, family ties, and spiritual beliefs on the surfaces of the body. The Indigenous peoples of Asia have created some of the world’s oldest and most distinctive tattoos, but their many contributions to body art and practice have been largely overlooked. Tattoo Traditions of Asia is the first single volume dedicated to the anthropological study of an ancient cultural practice and artform that spans many countries and societies, ancestral lands, and contemporary communities across the continent and its islands. This richly illustrated survey combines the author's twenty years of fieldwork, interviewing hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and contemporary tattoo practitioners, with painstaking research conducted in obscure archives throughout the region and elsewhere to break new ground on one of the least-understood mediums of Indigenous Asian expressive culture—a vital tradition to be celebrated, an inspirational story told in skin and ink.

Author: L. A. N. Iyer
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: James Low
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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James Low was an officer of the English East India Company's Madras Army, stationed at Penang. Low's mission to Southern Siam in 1824 was supposed to enlist Siamese support for the British invasion of Burma. His mission was a failure, but the report he produced, published here in full for the first time, provides a fascinating picture of the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand, from Phuket to the Malaysian border, now a great tourist region.

Author: Ian G. Baird
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Siti Norkhalbi Haji Wahsalfelah
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Category : Group identity
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Textiles and Identity in Brunei Darussalam examines the role of traditional textiles played in modern Brunei Darussalam. Hand-woven textiles are an important part of Brunei traditional culture. This book examines the types of textiles and the roles that they have played in different situations, such as serving as signifiers of social status, wealth, and political prominence. The study focuses on how locally woven textiles have been used to express and construct identity, especially Brunei Malay identity and Brunei national identity.

Author: Charles Lemire
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Category : Laos
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: David B. Wangsgard
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Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Niels Mulder
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Category : Anthropologists
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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