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  • Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan

    Making Sacred Forests

    by Aike P. Rots ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Sacred Heritage in Japan

    Edited by Aike P. Rots, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other.The book examines what happens when places of worship and ritual practices are rebranded as national culture. It also considers the impact of being designated tangible or intangible cultural properties and, more recently, as UNESCO World or ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Water Powers

    Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific

    by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Sonja Åman, Barbara R. Ambros, Darmanto Darmanto, Susan M. Darlington0, Georgina Drew1, Kathryn Dyt2, Fynn Holm3, Andrew Alan Johnson4, Tuan Anh Nguyen5, Evan Nicoll-Johnson6, Dr. Marius Palz7, Gerard Persoon8, Victoria C. Ramenzoni9, Veronica Walker Vadillo0 ...
    Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions

    by Matthew D. McMullen, Matthew D. McMullen, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, Barbara R. Ambros, Dr. Emily Anderson, Anna Andreeva, Professor Paul D. Barclay, Dr. Mikaël Bauer, Dr. Timothy O. Benedict0, Dr. Mark Bookman1, Kristina Buhrman2, Caleb Swift Carter3, Dr. Miriam Chusid4, Dr. Lindsey DeWitt Prat5, Dr. Satoko Fujiwara6, G. Clinton Godart7, Dr. Haruko Gotō8, Dr. Hannah Gould9, Dr. Tim Graf0, Dr. Jeffrey J. Hall1, Dr. Matthew Hayes2, Sujung Kim3, Dr. Paulina Kolata4, Dr. Ernils Larsson5, Dr. Benedetta Lomi6, Tze Loo, , PhD7, Bryan D. Lowe8, Dr. Adam J. Lyons9, Levi McLaughlin0, Dr. Dana Mirsalis1, Takashi Miura2, Dr. Eiichi Ōtani3, Dr. Cameron Penwell4, John Person5, Dr. Esben Petersen6, Dr. Aike P. Rots7, Dr. Towao Sakaehara8, Asuka Sango9, Dr. Timothy Smith0, Jessica Starling1, Jacqueline I. Stone2, Dr. Yōzō Taniyama3, Dr. Katja Triplett4, Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz5, Chika Watanabe6 ...
    Series Book 29 - Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture
    For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include non-specialists of Japan while also complicating the notions of “Japan” and “religion.” Asking the provocative question “why study Japanese religions?” the editors argue that studying Japan is vital for ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

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  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    by Roxana Waterson ...
    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

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    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

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  • The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

    Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

    by Justin McDaniel ...
    Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, ... Read more

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  • The Changing World of Bali

    Religion, Society and Tourism

    by Leo Howe ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’.Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work the book investigates the myriad of ways in which the ... Read more

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  • The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

    Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

    by Faizah Zakaria, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the AnthropoceneWhat is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the ... Read more

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