They Ask If We Eat Frogs
They Ask If We Eat Frogs

Author: Ellen Bal

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9812304460

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An investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh. It deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of Garo-ness, in the context of the complex historical developments.

Contesting Nation
Contesting Nation

Author: Angana Chatterji

Publisher: Zubaan

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 9383074124

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An innovative collection of essays on events and dynamics across South Asia, this volume addresses how violence marks the present in wars of direct and indirect conquest. Anti-colonial struggles that achieved independence to form postcolonial nation-states have consolidated themselves through prodigious violence that defines and disfigures communities and futures. This book examines the very borders such brutality enshrines and its intimate inscriptions upon bodies and memories, examining the performance of gendered violence through the spectacular and in everyday life, through wars, nationalisms and displacements. Women in and of South Asia offer inspired, gendered and contested histories of the discontinuous present, excavating nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarisation and cultural assertion, modernisation and globalisation, noting how Gujarat, post-9/11 mobilisations, and the war on Afghanistan and Iraq by Empire, signify the rapidity with which brutal events continue to encompass lives and cultures globally. Published by Zubaan.

Asia in the Making of Christianity
Asia in the Making of Christianity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9004251294

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Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of conversion. Some study individuals (An Chunggŭn of Korea, Liang Fa of China, Nehemiah Goreh of India), while others treat ethnolinguistic groups or large-scale movements. Converts sometimes appear as proto-nationalists, while others are suspected of cultural treason. Some transition effortlessly from leadership in one religious community into Christian ministry, while others re-convert to new forms of Christianity. The accounts collected here underscore the complexity of conversion, balancing individual agency with broader social trends and combining micro- with macrocontextual approaches.

Gender and Green Governance
Gender and Green Governance

Author: Bina Agarwal

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 0199569681

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Yet they have hardly been empirically investigated.

Fighting Words
Fighting Words

Author: Michael Edward Brown

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780262523332

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A study of the impact of language policies on ethnic relations in fifteen Asian and Pacific countries.

Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas
Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-02-03

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9004228365

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Origins and migration are core elements in the histories, identities and stories of Tibeto-Burman-speaking populations in the extended eastern Himalayas, a region stretching from eastern Nepal through Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and the hill tracts surrounding Assam, to upland Southeast Asia and southwest China. This book is the first to bring together contemporary research on Tibeto-Burman-speaking hill peoples in this region and the only multi-disciplinary study of the closely related topics of origins and migration in this part of Asia, presenting current research by anthropologists, folklorists, linguists and historians. Through a series of case studies on local and regional populations, the contributors explore origins and migration in relation to theoretical and methodological approaches, language, identity and narrative.