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Yuiko Asaba
Tango in Japan

Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of …

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W Puck Brecher
Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as "the world's bolde…

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Maryann Bylander
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

The Trade-Offs of Legal Status explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside legal status in Southeast Asia. In 2017, Thailand's military government enacted a new migration law cracking dow…

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Jae Won Edward Chung
Aesthetics of Abandonment

For many, today's image of South Korea is shaped by a triumphalist narrative that celebrates its economic prosperity, resilient democracy, and world-renowned culture industry. Against this backdrop, histo…

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Jae Won Edward Chung
Aesthetics of Abandonment

For many, today's image of South Korea is shaped by a triumphalist narrative that celebrates its economic prosperity, resilient democracy, and world-renowned culture industry. Against this backdrop, histo…

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Sylvia Cockburn
Unsettling Museums

Unsettling Museums is a revolutionary exploration of the collaborations between contemporary Pacific artists and anthropology museums in the early twenty-first century. This book unpacks nuanced artist-mu…

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Céline Coderey
The Power of Remainder

In The Power of Remainder , Céline Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and marginality in Myanmar. Focusing on the Buddhist communities of Rakhine, she explores their rich and diverse &qu…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Robert Cribb, Sandra Wilson
Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

In Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away , Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson tell the stories of twelve people who were convicted of war crimes in Allied courts in the Asia-Pacific region after …

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Kathleen Deguzman
Archipelagic Aesthetics

The Caribbean and the Philippines seem worlds apart, but geographically they are both archipelagoes: comprised of seas and islands. Using the archipelago as a starting point for analyzing literature and f…

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate…

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Stephen Eskildsen,
Daoism, Internal Alchemy, and the Wonders of Serenity

Simply keeping the mind clear and calm was, for many post-Tang Daoists, the path to eternal life and freedom. Through sheer serenity, practitioners believed they could attain immunity to hunger, eliminate…

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Benjamin Fairfield
Kani Ka ʻŌpala

A story and hands-on exploration of music made from rubbish!"What is garbage?" Asks Baba. "Garbage is something nobody wants or needs," I say. "It's junk! Rubbish! Trash! Somethin…

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Bernard Faure
From Stars to Stones

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, From Stars to Stones is the fourth installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-rit…

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Bernard Faure
Lords of Life

Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion,Lords of Life is the fifth and last book of a multivolume project that stands as a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system o…

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Jane M Ferguson
Planes of Existence

Coffee, tea or anthropology? Buckle up. The cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia have taken to the air. In just over a century, aviation has transformed the world, both progressively and cataclysmically.…

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Yulia Frumer, Aike P Rots, Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Animating Action

How do humans invest nonhuman entities with agency, personhood, and feelings? Responding to calls to reconsider human-nonhuman relations in a time of global polycrisis, Animating Action offers a novel fra…

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Yulia Frumer, Aike P Rots, Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Animating Action

How do humans invest nonhuman entities with agency, personhood, and feelings? Responding to calls to reconsider human-nonhuman relations in a time of global polycrisis, Animating Action offers a novel fra…

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Janet R Goodwin
Dodging and Confronting Stigma

Dodging and Confronting Stigma examines the lives of people who were stigmatized or marginalized in Japan's late classical and medieval ages. Often characterized as beggars, they in fact pursued a wide ra…

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Mj Harden
Voices of Wisdom

"These kūpuna sought to pass forward what they had been given. We receive these makana with care and gratitude: the opportunity to be immersed in the moʻolelo and mele of our people; the embodied kno…

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