Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Luke Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, Macquarie University, course: Sociology of politics, language: English, abstract: This research paper provides a critical analysis of past and present methods adopted by China, the United...
Philip Vera Cruz
A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera...
Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
War has gone but peace has yet to come
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , course: INTL5550, language: English, abstract: On May 18, 2009 the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and ended a 30-year conflict. The...
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka
Sex and Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural...
Syrian Episodes
Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand...
Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970
We are the Supermen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...
Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan's Relations with China
A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China remains lukewarm at best. Indeed, bilateral relations reached an unprecedented nadir during the spring of 2005, and again more recently in autumn 2012,...
Living Cities in Japan
Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development...
by Christopher McNary, Maria Paniagua
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
What were talking about here isnt seen much in tourist zones like Puerto Vallarta or Cancun. Its not what youd expect in Mexico City either, where gay marriage and adoption were sanctioned in 2010. But theses two stories are all too real and common, adapted from asylum testimonies given by men born and...
Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an
One Book, Many Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This book is the first of its kind to focus entirely on the Qur’anic interpretation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), a towering figure of Sunni Islam. Martin Whittingham explores both al-Ghazali’s hermeneutical methods and his interpretations of particular Quranic texts, and covers al-Ghazali’s...
Studies in West African Islamic History
The Cultivators of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan.
This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected...
by Raud
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The effect of Japan on the challenges and complexities of the modernisation process that globalisation has brought to the fore in Asia are the subject of this interdisciplinary volume by leading scholars in the field. Using fascinating examples drawn from current business and organisational practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply...