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Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam's Highlands
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Devel...
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The Diary of Connie Shakespear: The Naga Hills 1900-1902
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Connie Shakespear's 'Diary' is a record of her travels as she accompanied her husband (a Captain in the Naga Hills Military Police) through the Nag...
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The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.Product Det...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are nav...
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Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are nav...
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Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone Volume 56
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal ...
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The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu, Francis Cody studies how "news events" are made. Not merely the act of representing events with words or...
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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies: Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Kristen Rudisill is Professor of Popular Culture and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.Product DetailsISBN-13...
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Three Migrations and Three Invasions: An Untold Indian History
PaperbackOriginal price $14.49 - Original price $14.49Original price $14.49$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This book is about history of India. It is my sincere attempt to tell all the people of my country about us - who we all are and where we came from...
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A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia: Multiculturalism and Prosperity: The Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today! Singapore and Malaysia sit astride...
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Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities
HardcoverOriginal price $94.95 - Original price $94.95Original price $94.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television...
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Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television...
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River Life and the Upspring of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existe...
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China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Aesthetic influences drawn from China have long resonated throughout Western art, design, and philosophy. China Adorned challenges the monolithic i...
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Being Jain: Art and Culture of an Indian Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A visual primer on the art and culture of the Jains, and their legacy todayStrict nonviolence, the renunciation of possessions and universal tolera...
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Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governanc...
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One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand mis...
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Footprints in Paradise: Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to...
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The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to l...
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