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Kinship and Food in South East Asia

edited by Monica Janowski and Fiona G. Kerlogue Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing...

The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War

by Souchou Yao The book, by a cultural anthropologist, tells the story of the Malayan Emergency through the cultural interpretations of modern conflict, and examines the counterinsurgency through the lens of the postwar British Empire. Souchou Yao’s penetrating and illuminating...

War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

By Kevin Blackburn and Karl Hack Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers, and massacred thousands of Chinese civilians. A...

Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels

Edited by Nicola Piper, Shen Hsiu Hua, Beatriz P. Lorente and Brenda S.A. Yeoh The migration of people within and beyond Asia no longer takes the form of permanent ruptures, uprooting and resettlement. Today, such movement is more likely to...

Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam

edited by Melanie Beresford and Tran Ngoc Angie Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How...

Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond

edited by Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a...

Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

by Judith Beyer Striking new insights into understanding community in Myanmar In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Beyer develops the concept of 'we-formation’ to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members...

Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979

by Hatla Thelle This study analyses changes in the protection of social rights in China since 1979 for the middle-income level of the urban population, based on family interviews and documentary studies. It tells how conditions for employment, housing, social...

Design for a Contemporary World: A Textbook on Fundamental Principles

By Christian Boucharenc Design for a Contemporary World is a textbook that presents the theory and practice of design fundamentals. Design plays a significant role in environmental, ethnical, economic and cultural arenas, and contributes to people's wealth, cultural identity and...

Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia: Indonesian Nationalists and the Worldwide Anticolonial Movement, 1917–1931

by Klaas Stutje Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia explores Indonesian transnational political networks in the late colonial period, connecting the history of Indonesian nationalism with that of anticolonial internationalism and transnational activism. This book adds an international dimension to our...