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Challenging Cosmopolitanism : Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia - Thryft
R. Michael Feener, Joshua Gedacht

Challenging Cosmopolitanism : Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

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This book provides a critical perspective on Islamic cosmopolitanism, exploring its darker shades of power, violence, and economic control. Through new historical and ethnographic research, it contextualizes contemporary issues such as the global refugee crisis in relation to longer histories of Muslim mobility and coercion. A must-read for those interested in a nuanced understanding of Islamic cosmopolitanism.

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Haiti, History, And The Gods - Thryft
Colin Dayan, Joan Dayan

Haiti, History, And The Gods

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This book would be a good read for individuals interested in Haitian history and voodoo religion. It provides a comprehensive look at how the two are intertwined and shaped Haiti's past and present. The unique aspect of this book is its focus on voodoo religion, rarely acknowledged in traditional historical texts.

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Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey
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Helen F. Siu

Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey

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If you're intrigued by China's evolution from a rural society to a modern powerhouse, Helen Siu's "Tracing China" will give you an enlightening perspective. Her work uniquely integrates decades of fieldwork with anthropological analysis, offering a deep dive into how historical currents shape everyday lives. It's a compelling read for anyone interested in the nuances of socio-political change and the human stories within it.

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Culture And Society In New Order Indonesia - Thryft
Virginia Matheson Hooker

Culture And Society In New Order Indonesia

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In power since 1965, Indonesia's New Order government has formulated distinctive policies for cultural development. What effect have these policies had on individual artists and on art forms? This collection of fifteen essays explores the theme in the areas of literature, drama, film,television, painting, contemporary art, architecture, music, and language. The essays touch on current debates about the role of the artist in Indonesian society and discuss recent trends in the various genres.

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The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller - Thryft
John Tedeschi, Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi

The Cheese and the Worms : The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller

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This book is a must-read for history buffs and those interested in the intersection of religion, politics and popular culture. It is a fascinating insight into the worldview of a common individual during the tumultuous Renaissance period. The unique feature of the book is its use of trial records of Domenico Scandella to decode his beliefs and views on politics, religion, and society.

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The Sumerians - Thryft
Samuel Noah Kramer

The Sumerians

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The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.

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Locating Southeast Asia : Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space - Thryft
Henk Schulte Nordholt

Locating Southeast Asia : Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space

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Southeast Asia has never formed a unified political realm nor has it ever developed a cultural or civilizational unity. The present volume brings together observations about "Southeast Asia" drawn from a number of regional and disciplinary perspectives. The authors look at the region from the standpoint of Thailand and the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong, Japan and the Asian mainland, the South China Sea and the seacoasts of the region. They also consider the significance of borders and of a monetary network, of transnational flows of people, goods and information, and of knowledge in shaping Southeast Asia both for its residents and in the eyes of a wider world.

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Tensions of Empire : Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World - Thryft
Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler

Tensions of Empire : Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

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