Essential for scholars of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and Asian and diaspora studies, as well as readers seeking a deeper understanding of Philippine life, Town of Dollars exposes how violence lingers not in moments of crisis but in the ordinary persistence of survival.
Even as Confucian orthodoxy condemned corpse exposure as ritual failure, ordinary people developed adaptive practices that wove the unburied into... Læs mere
An invitation to participate in the joy of sharing a meal and savoring fresh, seasonal, healthy foodPeter Miller and his colleagues make lunch every day at his bookshop in Seattle.
How one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environmentSeattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M.
These include the oldest known audio recordings of these stories told in Tlingit and some of the longest and most detailed Raven stories in the historical record.
With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories.