Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
About the Book Series
This series offers a comprehensive view of Asian and Indo-Pacific anthropology and cultural history. It carries studies from China, Japan, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the entire Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand. Focusing mainly on detailed ethnographic studies, the series further incorporates pressing thematic work on issues of cross-regional impact, gender and globalization, precarity, refugees, and asylum-seekers, and alternative medical and wellness-seeking practices. The series aims to link anthropological theory with history and religious studies, with discussions of ritual, politics, religious change, and economics. Studies of adaptation and conflict in small-scale situations enmeshed in wider scale processes of transformation form a particular thematic focus. The series aims to reach a core audience of specialists in Asian and Pacific studies, but also to be accessible and valuable to a broader multidisciplinary readership.
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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change
1st Edition
By Holly Wardlow, Joel Robbins
December 18, 2017
Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing ...
Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia: The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Allon J. Uhlmann
March 29, 2017
This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that underlies kinship practices...
Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Burns Coleman
February 27, 2017
The belief held by Aboriginal people that their art is ultimately related to their identity, and to the continued existence of their culture, has made the protection of indigenous peoples' art a pressing matter in many postcolonial countries. The issue has prompted calls for stronger copyright ...
Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia
1st Edition
By Ildikó Bellér-Hann, M. Cristina Cesàro, Joanne Smith Finley
November 28, 2016
Drawing together distinguished international scholars, this volume offers a unique insight into the social and cultural hybridity of the Uyghurs. It bridges a gap in our understanding of this group, an officially recognized minority mainly inhabiting the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the ...
Aboriginal Family and the State: The Conditions of History
1st Edition
By Sally Babidge
November 16, 2016
Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issues of government control and recent official recognition of Aboriginal 'traditional owners'. Drawing on detailed empirical research, it develops a ...
The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By John Barker
November 15, 2016
The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. Taking Kenelm Burridge’s seminal work as their starting point, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people that exemplify key ethical ...