University of Hawai'i Press Forlag
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Hawai'i Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This title gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai'i place names associated with the ocean - the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle.
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Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes.
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Turning Toward Edification: Foreigners in Choson Korea (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chosn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to... Læs mere
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The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic... Læs mere
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Reframing Disability in Manga (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyses popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. The... Læs mere
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Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion and... Læs mere
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Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first book in any language to examine two companion stories: the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and the growth of Japanese botanical sciences.
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Unpredictable Agents: The Making of Japan's Americanists During the Cold War and Beyond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reflecting both the interlocked web of politics, economics, and academics, as well as the evolving contours of... Læs mere
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Na Ho?onanea O Ka Manawa: Pleasurable Pastimes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku. A memorial for the events of the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and forever more will never forget.
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Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of ‘New Sinology’ by restoring the role of language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern China emerged.
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Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reassesses conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. The nine chapters, diverse in theme... Læs mere
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