Speaking of the Self. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia, Paperback - ***

The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia-from a seven...

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. The work underlines that rel...

This book examines India's transboundary river water disputes with its South Asian neighbours - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. It explores...

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This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour ...

Reducere. Description"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflictin...

Patchwork States argues that South Asia's politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial stat...

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcon...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and...

Presents key issues of tourism planning and development in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Afghanistan, and Bhutan. Demons...

Presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. This title i...

This book engages with the concept, true value and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the pro...

Jane Gibson, an established potter, was determined to document the lives, skills and work of the traditional potters of South Asia before their dis...

This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gen...

Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...

This Element explores religious nationalism in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism and how it manifests in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. At the...

This book uses an innovative people-centred approach to the Kashmir problemto shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished, and ...

Edith Sarra radically rethinks the Tale of Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-both the narrative's images of aristocratic mansions and it...

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes: hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and the way hegemonic ide...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

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For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity. Through ...

This book explores the state of community radio, a significant independent media movement that began about two decades ago, in different parts of S...

Reducere. Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies....

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dyn...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-hist...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempt...

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