Anthropology of Asia
About the Book Series
Asia today is one of the most dynamic regions of the world. The previously predominant image of ‘timeless peasants’ has given way to the image of fast-paced business people, mass consumerism and high-rise urban conglomerations. Yet much discourse remains entrenched in the polarities of East versus West’, ‘Tradition versus Change’. This series hopes to provide a forum for anthropological studies which break with such polarities. It will publish titles dealing with cosmopolitanism, cultural identity, representations, arts and performance. The complexities of urban Asia, its elites, its political rituals, and its families will also be explored.
Asian Anthropology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas
August 21, 2009
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this ...
Food and Foodways in Asia: Resource, Tradition and Cooking
1st Edition
Edited
By Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan
April 29, 2009
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the ...
Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
1st Edition
By Sonia Ryang
July 09, 2008
This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization...
Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Brian Moeran
August 27, 1997
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world ...
Hong Kong: Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
1st Edition
By Grant Evans, Maria Tam
June 25, 1997
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky ...