The Mongols in the Making of Europe, 1220–1500: Images and Texts
by Ann Fielding
September 2010
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This is the first study to examine the effect the Mongols had on Western imagination and the world beyond Christendom.
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Mary, the Devil, and Taro: Catholicism and Women’s Work in a Micronesian Society
by Juliana Flinn
January 2010
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Catholicism, like most world religions, is patriarchal, and its official hierarchies and sacred works too often neglect the lived experiences of women. Looking beyond these texts, Juliana Flinn reveals how women practice, interpret, and shape their own Catholicism on Pollap Atoll, part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. She focuses in particular on how the Pollapese shaping of Mary places value on indigenous notions of mothering that connote strength, active participation in food production, and the ability to provide for one’s family.
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Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan’s One-party Legacy
by Mikael Mattlin
October 2010
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This book explores a relatively uncharted area of democratic transitions: the empirical study of intensely politicized transitional societies. In particular, it addresses the problems of protracted democratic transitions that occur when a one-party state has been incompletely dismantled.
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Tibeto-Mongolica: The Tibetan Loanwords of Monguor and the Development of the Archaic Tibetan Dialects
by A. Rona-Tas
October 2010
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The specific linguistic position of Monguor is the outcome of the historical development of Monguor society. Monguors became farmers, were settled as border-guards of the Chinese empire, and subsequently played an important part in the spreading of Tibetan Lamaism. Semantically, Monguor vocabulary reflects this background
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Lines That Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific
by Graeme Were
October 2010
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Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history.
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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VII
ed. by Hugh
Cortazzi
November 2010
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This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes, and events. Contents include the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilto;, philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell, and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo, who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan, and Japanese gardeners in Britain.
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Tribes of Central Asia: From the Black Mountain to Waziristan
by H. C. Wylly
November 2010
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While serving in the British Army in the North-West frontier region in the 1890s, Colonel Wylly found that there was no reliable, up-to-date information on the tribes or on the terrain. First published in 1912, his work remains valuable for the detailed descriptions of tribes and their way of life, as well as for the regional background and information on the campaigns waged by the British in an attempt at subjugation.
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Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain: From the First Alliance to Post 9/11
ed. by Alessandro Patalano
November 2010
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This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power bolstered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and enabled them to implement courses of action that would preserve their economic and security interests worldwide.
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The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys
by John D.
Palmer
December 2010
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Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who often grew up in white homes and communities. Biracial and nonadopted people of color typically have at least one parent whom they can racially identify with, which may also allow them access to certain racialized groups. When Korean adoptees attempt to immerse into the Korean community, they feel uncomfortable and unwelcome because they are unfamiliar with Korean customs and language. The Dance of Identities looks at how Korean adoptees “dance,” or engage, with their various identities (white, Korean, Korean adoptee, and those in between and beyond) and begin the journey toward self-discovery and empowerment.
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Japanese Episodes
by Edward H. House
December 2010
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First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator, and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later. It provides an important benchmark in Western writing on Japan in the early Meiji period. |
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