Anthropology
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No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance
From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of...RM90.00 -
Of Temple and Tatung Tradition in Singkawang
Cap Go Meh, known as Zhang Yet Ban to the locals, is closely associated with the street cleansing ritual (sei lu) performed the day before The...RM32.45 -
Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok
On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over...RM138.00 -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be...RM149.00 -
Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices The way...RM105.00 -
Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art
Large, bold, and colourful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art...RM165.00 -
Re-Orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them Analyzing food without considering changes over...RM123.00 -
Rethinking Human Evolution
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology The study...RM175.00 -
Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia
The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia While Savu is a relatively...RM135.00 -
Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human...RM100.00 -
Sebastiao Salgado Exodus
It has been almost a generation since Sebastiao Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught human movement around the globe,...RM290.00 -
Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected...RM48.00 -
Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Change: Indigenous People, Agriculture and Forest Conservation
Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics Typically...RM255.50 -
Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs
This book considers the proliferation in Malaysia over the past two decades of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) associated with various social...RM178.00 -
Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices
Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions...RM125.00 -
Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore
The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces...RM85.00 -
Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and the States in Southeast Asia
Studies of the Tai world often treat "state" and "community" as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialization...RM86.50 -
Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia
Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations Focusing on one of the most linguistically...RM80.00