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  • Multilingual Singapore

    Language Policies and Linguistic Realities

    Edición de Ritu Jain ...
    Series series Routledge Multilingual Asia Series
    This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    de Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Hakkas of Sarawak

    Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia

    de Kee Howe Yong ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can the demand for English be balanced against the need for people to acquire their national language and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Things

    Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

    Edición de Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell ...
    Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    de Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Why English?

    Confronting the Hydra

    Edición de Pauline Bunce, Prof. Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, Ruanni Tupas ...
    Series Libro 13 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how the dominance of English is being confronted and counteracted around the globe. The authors explore ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities

    Edición de Melani Budianta, Manneke Budiman, Abidin Kusno, Mikihiro Moriyama ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area ... Leer más

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  • Gender Pluralism

    Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

    de Michael G. Peletz ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

    Edición de Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • English in Singapore

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Communicating with Asia

    The Future of English as a Global Language

    Edición de Gerhard Leitner, Azirah Hashim, Hans-Georg Wolf ...
    Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local dynamics ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD