Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant... Læs mere
In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic... Læs mere
This text presents the fall of the Roman Empire from the barbarians perspective. Aimed at students of the late Roman Empire, of early Germanic... Læs mere
Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights. The author discerns a gradual evoluti
Tracking the Romantic strains in the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Levi-Strauss and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.
In the 1870s and 1880s, in Irish eyes, misrule by British officials and absentee landlords mirrored imperial oppression across the... Læs mere
Secrets to Writing Great Papers illustrates how to work with ideas--develop them, hone them, and transform them into words. It provides techniques and exercises for... Læs mere
Explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing... Læs mere
This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His... Læs mere
Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socio economic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey. Raw... Læs mere