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  • Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts

    Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces

    by Terence Heng ...
    How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese religion practices in Singapore. From spirit mediums to the Hungry Ghost Festival, each chapter engages with the social, the spatial and the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Visual Methods in the Field

    Photography for the Social Sciences

    by Terence Heng ...
    The use of images, particularly photography, has been steadily gaining popularity in academia, but there has not yet been a book that deals with the act and process of photo-taking in the field. Drawing upon 21 years of photographic experience and sociological research, Terence Heng’s immersive and narrative style will:introduce photography as a qualitative method;discuss the intricacies of, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity

    by Terence Heng ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
    In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities? Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity investigates the ways that Chinese Singaporeans shape their Chineseness through wedding rituals and artefacts. Proposing a framework of ethnic identity as a journey, this book willInterrogate the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Photographic Collections as Visual Method

    Innovation and Creativity in Asia

    Edited by Terence HENG, Soon-Hwa OH ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    This book examines photographic collections as ways of doing and/or inspiring research in the humanities and social sciences.Interweaving case studies and visual essays, this book:demonstrates the potential for photographic collections to launch new sociological, photographic, and creative work by scholars and practitioners;critically examines historical, social, and methodological issues ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Death and the Afterlife

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

    Edited by Kit Ying Lye, Terence Heng ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how individuals and collectives “do” death and interact with the dead.Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion communities, the authors bring a myriad of knowledge and experience from eight different but interconnected ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Singapore

    Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015

    Edited by Jason Lim, Terence Lee ...
    On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party (PAP) government, it was also marked by national remembrance as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Mapping Shangrila

    Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

    by Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism ... Read more

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  • Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China

    Edited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, Peter van der Veer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world’s most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who live in ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Trajectories

    Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

    Edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Series series Culture and Communication in Asia
    Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial co-ordinates of north and south, east and west. Without rejecting ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan

    Self, Culture and Society

    Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Su-Chen Wu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan. Social theorizing has been addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by the philosophical, religious, psychological and literary traditions of one of the world’s great civilizationsTheorizing is a dynamic movement of self, culture, society and the world as it is related to our ... Read more

    $154.99 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

  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    by Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD