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  • Mongolia Remade

    Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics

    by David Sneath ...
    Series series North East Asian Studies
    This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a ‘nomadic’ pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics. Widely published as an expert in the field, David ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Headless State

    Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia

    by David Sneath ...
    In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images of fierce nomads organized into clans and tribes—but as Sneath reveals, these representations have no ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The End of Nomadism?

    Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia

    by David Andrews Sneath, Caroline Humphrey ...
    Series series Central Asia Book Series
    Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad by revealing the complex lives and the significant impact on Asian culture of these modern “mobile ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Pandemic Nationalism in Inner Asia

    Unsettling Ideologies and Affective Imaginaries

    Edited by Elizabeth Turk, David Sneath ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    This book offers an ethnographic analysis of nationalist thought, centralized power, and modes of governance in (post- )pandemic Mongolian political and cultural contexts. By reframing the unity often associated with descriptive ‘groupist’ thought in terms of claims and objects of concern within a wider political imaginary, this book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia

    Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments

    Edited by Riamsara Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, David Sneath ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained, esoteric ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of China

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known in the West. From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship with the 'Great Firewall of China', Gordon Kerr offers a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous country. A Short History of China ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Feng Shui

    by Ole Bruun ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    by Radhika Govindrajan ...
    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China In World History

    by Paul S. Ropp ...
    Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. What is distinctive about China in comparison with other civilizations? What have been ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

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    by B.K. Sharma ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Shortest History of China

    by Linda Jaivin ...
    From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.Chinese history is nothing if not messy. Heroes are also villains; prosperity mingles with violence; cultural vibrancy coexists with censorship and repression. Modern China is seen variously as an economic powerhouse, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tragic Spirits

    Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

    by Manduhai Buyandelger ...
    A "highly readable ethnographic study" of the resurgence of shamanism among nomadic Mongolians in a time of radical political and economic change ( The Journal of Asian Studies).Winner, Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyShortlisted, ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book PrizeThe collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus