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Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice

Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Süd- und Ostasienforschung

A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is b…

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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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Rana Barakat
Ongoing Return

Critical Indigeneities

In Palestine, a walk across the landscape is a journey of return that defies time, layered with sediments of personal experience and collective peoplehood. For Palestinian scholar Rana Barakat, the experi…

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Shawn Bender
Feeling Machines

"In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn B…

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Shawn Bender
Feeling Machines

"In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn B…

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James Welker
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

"Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who chal…

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Scott W Aalgaard
Homesick Blues

Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard ca…

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Qi Mu
Rural Built Heritage Preservation and Development in Chinese Ethnic Areas

This book discusses how rural built heritage preservation and development in the Chinese ethnic area in Tongren, China has been strongly addressed by the labeling, planning, project-making, follow-up mana…

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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Annika A Culver
Democratizing Luxury

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to …

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Raja Shehadeh, Penny Johnson
Forgotten

" Shehadeh's books are like beacons held up against the darkness" Observer"A heartbreaking, hopeful look at how Palestinian culture endures" Irish Times Forgotten is a search for hidde…

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The Obsessed

Whether it be Cosplay, Rockabilly, HipHop or Gothic: when the Japanese immerse a subculture, they do it like no other.For the Otaku, their passion is their life, and it pervades every aspect. From cosplay…

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