WPS 124 Categorically Vulgar

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 …

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Asian Ethnicity – Special Issue: Chineseness Unbound: Boundaries, Burdens and Belongings of Chineseness Outside China (Vol. 10 No. 3)

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 …

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Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities within and Beyond Prisons

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: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future

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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Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia

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: From Moneylenders to Microfinance

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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WPS 123 Internationalisation of R&D and Global Nature of Innovation: Emerging Trends in India

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 …

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