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 …
Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities within and Beyond Prisons Read More »
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 …
Mediating Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia Read More »
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 …
Institutions of higher education engaged in teaching and research have come to occupy an important place in the knowledge production and knowledge transfer. These institutions are now seen as frontiers of innovation and in capitalizing knowledge assets contributing to economic progress, and aiding national economies in international competitiveness. In this paper two Indian Institutes of …
This paper attempts to fill the lacunae in the scholarly literature surrounding Islamic activism in Singapore by providing a critical historical analysis of the Muhammadiyah movement. Utilizing insights and concepts borrowed from social movement theorists, I argue that four processes have been crucial in the sustenance of the Muhammadiyah movement within a non-Muslim dominated and …
Worldwide, abortion is one of the most controversial issues in modern society. Since the early 1960s, abortion in Southern Viet Nam has been legal and available on request, reflecting the Government’s commitment to providing reproductive choice for women. Services have been made widely available and accessible to women. Both contraception and abortion services are widely …
WPS 119 Public Opinion in Vietnam about Adolescent Sexuality, Sex Education and Abortion Read More »
