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Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels

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 be transient and complex, ridden with disruptions and detours, and based on translocal interconnections between places and multiple chains of movement. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, this collection of …

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Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet

Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the internet in a strategic way. Conflicts carried out on a local level thus achieve a new dimension: This new kind of medialisation results in their expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian and Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict (1999-2002) this study …

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WPS 37 Champa Revised

The name Champa refers to the region along the central and southern Vietnamese coast in which the major population group, identifiable from the 5th century onward by their own architectural and epigraphic remains, was the linguistically Austronesian Cham. The Cham settled mainly in river port deltas, and developed a Hindu and Buddhist religious culture exemplified …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 1 No. 1)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …

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Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers

Once an occupation traditionally associated with poor rural women who migrated to cities in search of work, paid domestic work is now a transnational occupational niche for millions of women from Asia’s less well-off countries-including the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and India-who embark on sojourns to the richer countries of the world-such as Singapore, …

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Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice

The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a booklength, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country …

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Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established understandings and practices of citizenship, and that intellectual work is required to fashion models of citizenship better suited to present problems and realities. In particular, this …

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Asal Mula Konflik Aceh: Dari perebutan Pantai Timur Sumatera hingga akhir Kerajaan Aceh abad ke-19

Indonesian Translation of The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858-1898 (1969).

Asia Tawan-ok Chieng Tai Nai Yuj Kankha, Kho So 1450-1680 (2 vols)

Thai translation of Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce (2 vols, 1988-93) Author/Speaker:LEKAWATANA Pongsri (Translator), Anthony REID

WPS 36 The Ottomans in Southeast Asia

For four centuries, from 1520 to 1920, the Ottoman dynasty in Turkey represented a dream for Southeast Asian Muslims; a longing for Islamic power at a time of Islamic political decline. That dream became a reality in the period 1530-70, when Aceh submitted itself to Ottoman suzerainty in return for military support against the Portuguese. …

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