Anthropology

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Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Learning to Love

Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya E Pritzker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Social Organization in South China, 1911–1949

The Case of Kuan Lineage in K’ai-p’ing County

By Yuen-fong Woon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology, History, American Religious History, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exploration of the effects on patrilineal kinship ties of the social and political changes in the period between the revolutions of 1912 and 1949

Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital

By Suzanne Gottschang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine

The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth

Nation Work

Asian Elites and National Identities

Edited by Timothy Brook & André Schmid
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Anthropology

Questions assumptions about nationalism by examining the particular origins of the nation in Asia

Secrecy and Cultural Reality

Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House

By Gilbert Herdt
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Sexuality Studies

A compelling study of male ritual secrecy and its impact on the cultures of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea

Sensual Relations

Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

By David Howes
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies

Offers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning

Remembering to Live

Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia

By M. Hay
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine, Psychology

An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people

Kyongju Things

Assembling Place

By Robert Oppenheim
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies

A historical ethnography of place amidst objects in the contemporary city of Kyongju, South Korea

Shugendo

Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion

By Hitoshi Miyake
Edited by H. Earhart
Subjects: Religion, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Cage of Freedom

Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia

By Andrew C. Willford
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Political Science, Religion

An ethnographic look at rituals across class and status among Malyasian Tamils

Conceiving Cultures

Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea

By Shelley Mallett
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Makes explicit anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by way of the other

On the Banks of the Ganga

When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River

By Kelly D. Alley
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Religion, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources

Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)

Harvesting Development

The Construction of Fresh Food Markets in Papua New Guinea

By Karl Benediktsson
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, System -- Development

An examination of the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Guinea

The Otherness of Self

A Genealogy of Self in Contemporary China

By Liu Xin
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Business, Philosophy

Our Women Are Free

Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush

By Wynne R. Maggi
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Invitations to Love

Literacy, Love Letters, and Social Change in Nepal

By Laura M. Ahearn
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Education

A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal

Unconventional Sisterhood

Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

By Heather Lynn Claussen
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Religion

An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines

Encompassing Others

The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia

By Edward LiPuma
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies

An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society

Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery

Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea

By Eric Kline Silverman
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender Studies

An important ethnographic analysis of motherhood in one Melanesian society

"A Truthful Impression of the Country"

British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949

By Nicholas R. Clifford
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Anthropology, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An examination of the writings of travelers to China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Borders of Being

Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by Margaret Anne Jolly & Kalpana Rajeswari Ram
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Health & Medicine

Explores the intermingling of women's bodies and nations' boundaries

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