Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan

Ian Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufac... Lees meer

Caring for Strangers

Megha Amrith

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering many the hope of a... Lees meer

Fiery Dragons

Sean Turnell

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 114
• 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 t... Lees meer

Burma and Japan Since 1940

Donald M Seekins

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Modern Myanmar/Burma is very much a creation of World War II, when the British colony was occupied by the Japanese, and its immediate aftermath. These... Lees meer

Future Forward

Duncan McCargo, Anyarat Chattharakul

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Thai politics have been intensely polarized since demonstrations against the government of then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra began in 2005. Conse... Lees meer

Nation, City, Arena

Friederike Trotier

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its national rebirth, modernity and international arrival by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta. Since then, Indones... Lees meer

Caring for Strangers

Megha Amrith

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering many the hope of a... Lees meer

Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia

Geoffrey C Gunn

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• One figure strides across modern Cambodian history--Norodom Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941 until his extravagant funer... Lees meer

Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia

Geoffrey C Gunn

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• One figure strides across modern Cambodian history--Norodom Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941 until his extravagant funer... Lees meer

Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor

David Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of East Timorese in their oral traditions. Although new f... Lees meer

The Malayan Emergency

Souchou Yao

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and communist insurgent... Lees meer

Land and Longhouse

R A Cramb

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 110
• Land and Longhouse examines the role of community, market, and state in the historic transformation of upland livelihoods in Southeast Asia. Focusing ... Lees meer

Future Forward

Duncan McCargo, Anyarat Chattharakul

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Thai politics have been intensely polarized since demonstrations against the government of then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra began in 2005. Conse... Lees meer

Violence and Belonging

Are Knudsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 115
• Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from th... Lees meer

Western Han

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• This mammoth study is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature, making available to scholars a genuine storyteller's script from China'... Lees meer

Proper Islamic Consumption

Johan Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 113
• The West has seen the rise of the organic movement. In the Muslim world, a similar halal movement is rapidly spreading. Malaysia is at the forefront o... Lees meer

Thai Military Power

Gregory Vincent Raymond

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Being at the centre of the vital Asia-Pacific region, Thailand is important. But, despite its large population and powerful military forces performing... Lees meer

Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor

David Hicks

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of East Timorese in their oral traditions. Although new f... Lees meer

Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia

Mona Lilja

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• In a world where there are few women politicians, Cambodia is still noticeable as a country where strong cultural and societal forces act to subjugate... Lees meer

Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits

Rosalie Stolz

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to write about kinship in a way that ... Lees meer

Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of War

Michael Fredholm

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs
• This is the first book to scrutinize the root causes of problems today with Afghan reconstruction. It begins in 1880 with the coming to power of Emir ... Lees meer

Chinese Ways of Being Muslim

Wai Weng Hew

• Paperback | Engels | Nias Monographs
• By exploring architectural designs, preaching activities, cultural celebrations, social participations and everyday practices, this book describes and... Lees meer

Cambodians and Their Doctors

Jan Ovesen, Ing-Britt Trankell

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 117
• At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using "medicine" (in the sense of id... Lees meer

Japanese Education and the Cram School Business

Marie Højlund Roesgaard

• Hardcover | Engels | Nias Monographs | nr. 105
• Cram schools (in Japanese called juku) are often mentioned in passing as a phenomenon functioning mainly to exacerbate competition and pressure on chi... Lees meer