Anthropology
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The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity
"International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism In his fluent...RM149.00 -
The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States
The indigenous people of the hemisphere have resisted a five-hundred-year assault, fighting to maintain their cultural identities During this time,...RM99.00 -
The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular...RM135.00 -
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque
A cutting-edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the...RM70.00 -
The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformation in a Developing Region
This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of Southeast Asia with its comprehensive and integrated treatment of the important...RM112.50 -
The Story of Southeast Asia
The oldest figurative cave paintings in the world are found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia Hand stencils and animals painted some 45,000...RM99.00 -
The Straits Chinese House: Domestic Life and Traditions
The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established itself in the...RM99.90 -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations Whether trying to escape war and persecution or to find a...RM75.50 -
Think Like an Anthropologist
How does anthropology help us understand who we are What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to the City of London Why does it...RM64.00 -
Transforming Brickfields: Development and Governance in a Malaysian City
Transforming Brickfields: Development and Governance in a Malaysian City is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the...RM55.00 -
Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo
This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from Borneo in which the Kelabit hero Tuked Rini ventures out into the cosmos to do...RM145.00 -
Us, Relatives: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World
Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways But they have often not been attentive...RM154.00 -
Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet―apart from political violence―most studies approach violence from...RM160.00 -
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
How did warfare originate Was it human genetics Social competition The rise of complexity Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past...RM170.30 -
What Is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas’s unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious...RM139.90 -
Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonized before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the...RM72.50 -
Why Did They Kill? : Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead...RM153.70 -
Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters
A gorgeously photographed glimpse into the "island of monsters"―the world of Japanese folk masks, characters, and costumes In Japan, the passing...RM165.00