The hybridization of Bhangra, a Punjabi harvest dance, with Western beats of pop and black beats of reggae, rap and hiphop in Britain in the mid 1980s brought it international visibility and has made it part of global youth culture. However, purists on the Indian subcontinent, particularly in Punjab, offended by the ‘vulgar’ content of …
In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals.Asian Ethnicityprovides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched …
Located in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu film industry is the second largest in India. The Telugu film industry exhibits particular cultural traits that relate not only to filmmaking, but also to the impact of popular culture on politics. Megastar is a book on the powerful presence of popular culture and …
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Based upon four years of anthropological research within prisons and Muslim communities in the UK, this book offers a unique discussion of the relationship between the experience of prison among Muslims and the formation of religious identity. Using an innovative neurocognitive anthropological approach which rejects cultural essentialism and reductionism, Gabriele Marranci, after discussing the controversial …
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TransUrban is an ambitious project that attempts to chart design ideas, ideals, and processes of recent and current experiments for cities of the future. TransUrban examines the idea of sustainable cities beyond the environmental and ecological aspects by documenting and analyzing emergent forms of urbanism and extracting lessons that may shape cities to come. These built experiments …
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A timely and groundbreaking work, here is a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between religion and technology in Asia today. How does the use of technology affect people’s experience of spirituality and the formation of religious identity and community? How do developments in the latest technological breakthroughs such as the Internet influence the ways people …
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Southeast Asia’s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance–-the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor–-in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has come to be seen as a key weapon in the battle against global …
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The corporate model of R&D pursued within home country locations of the corporate firm is fast eroding. Important magazines such as The Economist (3 March 2007, p69) has begun to talk about, ‘The rise and fall of corporate R&D’. The internet and telecommunication revolutions have dismantled geographical barriers creating a new innovation potential at different …
A youth culture has been visible in clubs within and outside India since the mid-eighties in which a genre of music dubbed ‘new Asian dance music’ by the British media, consisting mainly of Bhangra and Bollywood remixes, emerges as the most important site for the production of new ethnicities as brown, black and white bodies …
