Cultural Studies
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Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theatre as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions Charting the...RM135.00 -
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes
As world powers realign their cultural outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Eurasia’s complex network of ancient trade routes –...RM265.00 -
Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating...RM138.00 -
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and...RM139.00 -
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th-Century West Java
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java traces the development of modern printed books written in Sundanese, the dominant...RM85.50 -
Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accomodation
Thailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia-Pacific region, an area playing a vital role in world affairs And yet,...RM132.00 -
Thaipusam in Malaysia: A Hindu Festival in the Tamil Diaspora
In Thaipusam in Malaysia: A Hindu Festival in the Tamil Diaspora, the author argues that many scholars who had written about Thaipusam in Malaysia...RM142.00 -
The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore
How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context With this opening question, the...RM220.00 -
The Badeng Kenyah of Belaga in Sarawak: Marginality, Changing Traditions and Development
The Badeng Kenyah of Belaga in Sarawak: Marginality, Changing Traditions and Development explains the history, culture and development of the Badeng...RM45.00 -
The Book of Symbols
The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all...RM166.00 -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Hunting and gathering peoples, including Kalahari Bushmen, Australian aborigines, Eskimos, and Pygmies, are the subject of endless appeal This...RM263.00 -
The Communist Manifesto
Re-issued to mark the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth: the manifesto that set the world alight, now with a new introduction from the bestselling...RM28.90 -
The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human...RM55.00 -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation,...RM115.00 -
The Great Han: Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today
The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China...RM138.00 -
The Great Port Cities of Asia
The history of Asia can be told through its great port cities: Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Nagasaki, Basra, Aden, Jeddah, Kolkata (Calcutta),...RM160.00 -
The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle...RM166.00 -
The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
In the vein of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an intimate, deeply reported and revelatory examination of love, marriage, and the state of modern...RM89.90