Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
by Are Knudsen
March 2009
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Honor and violence is a major theme in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet—apart from political violence—most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan’s unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant.
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Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
by Sean Turnell
March 2009
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This book explores the present circumstances of Burma’s financial malaise, but does not neglect how it got there. Opening its account at the dawn of the colonial era, the book takes the story forward to the events that in our times bring the Burmese people out onto their streets to demand something better.
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Living Japan: Essays on Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan
ed. by Harumi Kimura
March 2009
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This volume forms a unique and remarkable enterprise in the context of contemporary Japanese literature, social studies, and the nature of Japanese society. It comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan today (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events, issues, and aspirations that make them who they are—from life in a condominium to dealing with in-laws, early retirement, and life after children.
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The Orientation of Science and Technology: A Japanese View
by Shigeru Nakayama
March 2009
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One of Japan’s most distinguished science historians of the twentieth century, Shigeru Nakayama, is celebrated in this third volume in the Collected Papers series, with the publication of twenty-four of his papers, which are divided thematically as follows: First Turning Point: Dropping of the Atomic Bomb and the End of the War; Early Work: The History of Astronomy; Joseph Needham; The History of the
University; Mass Participatory Research; Second Turning Point: Civilizational Revolution; Service Science; Westernization and Modernization of Japanese Science and
Technology; From Post-war to the Future.
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Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-72: The Story of the Japanese Imperial Army's Longest WWII Survivor in the Field and Later Life
by Omi Hatashin
March 2009
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In 1972, when discovered by local hunters on Guam, former tailor Yokoi was widely reported as a “no surrender man” who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honor. The first part is the English translation of his own autobiography, which was narrated to his wife. The second part is a biography of Yokoi after his return to Japan, including his marriage, upper house elections in 1974, his pottery, and his views on modern life. He died in 1997. |
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China-West Interculture: Toward the Philosophy of World Integration: Essays on Wu Kuang-ming's Thinking
ed. by Jay Goulding
March 2009
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World problems are intercultural, requiring sensitivity to cultural integrity in order to resolve them. Wu Kuang-ming (Ph.D., philosophy, Yale) has been grappling with cultural clashes at their boundary for half a century, insisting that we must first let Chinese thinking be Chinese, not Western, leading thereby to a truly fruitful China-West and West-China interculture. Wu has been proposing how to do so in a dozen published volumes and beyond. China-West Interculture reports Wu’s personal and academic journey on this matter, followed by fourteen international scholars’ critical appreciations and Wu’s grateful responses. Wu’s analytical bibliography and the editor’s index conclude the work, the full content of which is itself world culture in praxis.
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In the Cemetery There Are Lovers
by Thomas Fitzsimmons
illus. by Karen Hargreaves-Fitzsimmons
March 2009
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The Unending Korean War: A Social History
by Dong-Choon Kim
trans. by Sung-ok Kim
March 2009
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More than half a century has passed since the signing of the armistice that ended the fighting of the Korean War (1950–1953). However, the war rages on in Korean society: North and South continue to face off over the thirty-eighth parallel, families remain divided, and stories about what happened during the war still cannot be told.
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Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society
by Anoma Pieris
March 2009
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During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. |
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Going Against the Grain: When Professionals in Hawaii Choose Public Schools Instead of Private Schools
by Ann Shea Bayer
March 2009
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This book is about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to “go against the grain.” It’s about Hawai‘i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that “public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding.” University of Hawai‘i education professor Ann Bayer interviewed fifty-one parents, including five who chose private schools. Physicians, professors, attorneys, military officers, teachers, legislators, business executives and entrepreneurs, bankers, and administrators of both genders and from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds were among those interviewed.
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Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
ed. by Michael Hitchcock; Victor T. King; Michael Parnwell
March 2009
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Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world’s most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in Southeast Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.
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Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Sociality in the Cook Islands
by Kalissa Alexeyeff
March 2009
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Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization’s impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production.
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Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-1984)
by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake
ed. by Mei-Li M. Siy; Richard Hamasaki
March 2009
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In an all-too-brief life and literary career, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) produced a substantial body of poetry. He broke new ground as a poet, translated Taoist classical literature and Japanese haiku, interwove perspectives from his Hawaiian heritage into his writing and art, and published his work locally, regionally, and internationally.
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Getting Published: A Companion for the Humanities and Social Sciences
by Gerald Jackson; Marie Lenstrup
March 2009
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This book aims to guide would-be authors through some of the pitfalls and complexities of getting published. In addition, it looks at the changes sweeping through academic publishing and, as a result, discusses self-publishing, e-publishing, web logs, and other alternatives to the traditional publishing model. |
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Champa and the Archaeology of My Son (Vietnam)
ed. by Andrew Hardy; Mauro Cucarzi; Patrizia Zolese
February 2009
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An Italian team has worked at the ancient Champa site for the last ten years, doing archaeological research and restoration work in cooperation with Vietnamese specialists. This book is the first published volume based on their efforts. The opening section consists of historical, anthropological, and architectural studies of the civilization of Champa. The book goes on to present an unusually intimate and extensively illustrated portrait of the archaeologists’ research and restoration work.
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