Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david sneath”
Skip side bar filters

  • 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

    $64.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • 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

    $55.99 USD

  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $71.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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

    $33.99 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    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 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of East Asia

    From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

    by Charles Holcombe ...
    The third edition of this ambitious book begins by asking: What is East Asia? Today, many of the features that made the region distinct have been submerged under revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet in ancient times, what we now think of as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had both historical and cultural coherence. Thoroughly revised and updated to include recent developments in East Asian ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Not Quite Shamans

    Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

    by Morten Axel Pedersen ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus