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Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies (Hardcover): Kiri Paramore Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies (Hardcover)
Kiri Paramore
R4,632 Discovery Miles 46 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is increasingly shaping, the study of religion. Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies looks into this symbiotic relationship - both in current practice, and in the modern histories of both Orientalism and Area Studies. Each chapter of the book deals with one regional sub-discipline in Asian Studies, covering Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and Central Eurasian Studies. The chapters are integrated by shared themes that run through the past and present practice of Asian Studies, covering the role of state actors in originating Area Studies, the role of local scholarship in defining and developing it, the interaction between humanities and social science approaches, debates over the dominance of Western and/or modern categories and frameworks, the interaction of past and present and the role of religious actors and religious sensibilities in shaping Asian Studies.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee - A Man for All Seasons (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Atal Bihari Vajpayee - A Man for All Seasons (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitab al-Aghani al-Kabir - Annotated Translations and Commentaries (Hardcover):... Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitab al-Aghani al-Kabir - Annotated Translations and Commentaries (Hardcover)
George Dimitri Sawa
R5,377 Discovery Miles 53 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Isbahani's The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.

Caste and Partition in Bengal - The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (Hardcover): Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Anasua Basu Ray... Caste and Partition in Bengal - The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (Hardcover)
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
R2,837 Discovery Miles 28 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Partition, the role of the Dalit or the Scheduled Castes is either completely ignored or mentioned in passing. The authors addresse this discursive absence and argues that in Bengal the Dalits were neither passive onlookers nor accidental victims of Partition politics and violence, which ruptured their unity and weakened their political autonomy. They were the worst victims of Partition. When the Dalit peasants of Eastern Bengal began to migrate to India after 1950, they were seen as the 'burden' of a frail economy of West Bengal, and the Indian state did not provide them with a proper rehabilitation package. They were first segregated in fenced refugee camps where life was unbearable, and then dispersed to other parts of India - first to the Andaman Islands and the neighbouring states, and then to the inhospitable terrains of Dandakaranya, where they could be used as cheap labour for various development projects. This book looks critically at their participation in Partition politics, the reasons for their migration three years after Partition, their insufferable life and struggles in the refugee camps, their negotiations with caste and gender identities in these new environments, their organized protests against camp maladministration, and finally their satyagraha campaigns against the Indian state's refugee dispersal policy. This book looks at how refugee politics impacted Dalit identity and protest movements in post-Partition West Bengal.

Iranian History - A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, through... Iranian History - A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, through the Parthian, Sasanian and Safavid Empire to the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R710 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Korean-American Chronicles - As Recounted by Korean High School Leaders (Hardcover) (Hardcover, New): April Myung Korean-American Chronicles - As Recounted by Korean High School Leaders (Hardcover) (Hardcover, New)
April Myung
R1,806 Discovery Miles 18 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book, edited by April Myung of Bergen County Academies in New Jersey, contains autobiographies of ten Korean teenagers, currently studying in American high schools. This historically significant volume contains writings by break-dancing Julius Im, who understands his Korean-American identity through this medium of African-American dance, to Rei Fujino Park of Flushing, New York, who explores her own dual identiy with a Korean father (who served in the elite Korean military special forces) and a Japanese mother. Rei Fujino describes her parents' marriage as a loving union of "enemies" given the history of Japanese colonization of Korea (1910-1945). Julie Oh describes the difficult situation of the children of Korean company workers for Samsung, LG, SK, Woori Bank, and other Korean companies, who come with a short-term working visa to the United States. The children of these "Joo-Jae-Won" have to go to Saturday school (in her case, "Woori School") in order to maintain the skill level of Korean high schools, in the case that their parents get recalled to South Korea - their children would have to apply for Korean universities and meet the requirements of Korean university entrance tests, which are vastly different from America's SAT, ACT, and AP tests. Andrew Hyeon shars his experience as a Korean Catholic, attending Hopkins School, an elite private school in Connecticut, where former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, a famous Korean, attended. Ruby Hong's autobiography is written as a fairytale account of her own life. The autobiographies in this book are not only creatively written as to capture the readers' interest, but they also provide valuable resources for Korean American Studies. (This book is the second in the Hermit Kingdom Sources in Korean-American Studies, whose series editor is Dr. Onyoo Elizabeth Kim, Esq.)

Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E. - Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Hardcover): Joshua A. Fogel Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E. - Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Hardcover)
Joshua A. Fogel
R6,089 Discovery Miles 60 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished from history, only to be unearthed in 1784 in Japan. In the subsequent two-plus centuries, nearly 400 books and articles (mostly by Japanese) have addressed every conceivable issue surrounding this small object of gold. Joshua Fogel places the conferment of the seal in inter-Asian diplomacy of the first century and then traces four waves of historical analysis that the seal has undergone since its discovery, as the standards of historical judgment have changed over these years and the investment in the seal's meaning have changed accordingly.

War and Revolution in South China - The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951 (Hardcover): Edward J.M. Rhoads War and Revolution in South China - The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951 (Hardcover)
Edward J.M. Rhoads
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover): Peter Pyungwoo Kim Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover)
Peter Pyungwoo Kim
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Byzantium and Islam - Collected Studies on Byzantine-Muslim Encounters (English, Greek, To, Hardcover): Daniel J. Sahas Byzantium and Islam - Collected Studies on Byzantine-Muslim Encounters (English, Greek, To, Hardcover)
Daniel J. Sahas
R4,977 Discovery Miles 49 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Arabs and the Middle East were among the first to embrace Christianity, leaving their print on its culture. Thus Byzantium, by geography and culture, encountered Islam at its birth. No wonder that many saw and treated Islam as a contemporary Christian "heresy" - whatever the word may connote. Radical events fill the history of Byzantium (330-1453) encountering the world of Islam: conquests, wars, cultural and diplomatic relations, manifestations of mutual admiration - and exclusion! Their story makes for a fascinating branch of either Byzantine or Islamic studies; the literature about each other forming a distinguished section in either field. This collection of studies is a sample of Byzantine perspectives of Islam offering, hopefully, expressions and solutions rather than creating impressions or illusions.

Tilkepe - Past and Present (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Michael J Bazzi Tilkepe - Past and Present (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Michael J Bazzi
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World (Paperback): Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World (Paperback)
Amy Stanley
R453 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Hardcover): Eric Covey Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Eric Covey
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the United States and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Mercenaries are often treated as historical footnotes, yet their encounters with the Ottoman world contributed to US culture and the impressions they left behind continue to influence US approaches to Africa and the Middle East. The book's analysis of these mercenary encounters and their legacies begins with the Battle of Derna in 1805-in which the US flag was raised above a battlefield for the first time outside of North America with the help of a mercenary army-and concludes with the British occupation of Egypt in 1882-which was witnessed and criticized by many of the US Civil War veterans who worked for the Egyptian government in the 1870s and 1880s. By focusing these mercenary encounters through the lenses of memory, sovereignty, literature, geography, and diplomacy, Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire reveals the ways in which mercenary force, while marginal in terms of its frequency and scope, produced important knowledge about the Ottoman world and helped to establish the complicated relationship of intimacy and mastery that exists between Americans in the United States and people in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, South Sudan, and Turkey.

From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover): Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover)
Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman
R921 Discovery Miles 9 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization... Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R627 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Creating a Homeland - A True Story of Dedication, Sacrifice and Pioneering Spirit That Created the Modern State of Israel... Creating a Homeland - A True Story of Dedication, Sacrifice and Pioneering Spirit That Created the Modern State of Israel (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Dan Gielan; Edited by Janis L. Dworkis; Cover design or artwork by David a Gielan
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hawi l-Funun wa-Salwat al-Mahzun, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Tahhan - Annotated... Hawi l-Funun wa-Salwat al-Mahzun, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Tahhan - Annotated Translation and Commentary (Hardcover)
George Dimitri Sawa
R5,235 Discovery Miles 52 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Hawi l-Funun (Encompasser of the Arts) of Ibn al-Tahhan (d. ca. 1057) is a medieval Arabic music dictionary that complements other sources because of the practical knowledge of the author who was an accomplished singer, lutenist and composer. The first part in 80 chapters deals with compositions; voice production and characteristics, unison and duet singing, taking care of the voice; preludes, ornaments, tarab; the importance of tonality; approaches to teaching; musical and extra-musical behavior at the court; names of Syrian Fatimid and Ishshidid singers. The second part in 22 chapters includes lute manufacturing, frets placement, stringing and tuning; 47 rhythmic ornaments, names and definitions of rhythmic and melodic modes; types of dances; descriptions of 12 instruments.

The Persianate World - Rethinking a Shared Sphere (English, Persian, Hardcover): Abbas Amanat, Assef Ashraf The Persianate World - Rethinking a Shared Sphere (English, Persian, Hardcover)
Abbas Amanat, Assef Ashraf
R3,814 Discovery Miles 38 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover): Liliana Sikorska Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover)
Liliana Sikorska
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind - the World, the Flesh and the Devil - reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

Dead Sea Level - Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (Hardcover): Haim Goren Dead Sea Level - Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (Hardcover)
Haim Goren
R4,650 Discovery Miles 46 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the nineteenth century the Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India. This is the traditional explanation for the presence of the international powers in the region. This important new book questions this view. Through a study of two important projects of the time -- international efforts to determine the exact level of the Dead Sea, and Chesney's Euphrates Expedition to find a quicker route to India -- Professor Goren shows how other forces than the interests of empire, were involved. He reveals the important role played by private individuals and establishes a wealth of new connections between the key players; and he reveals for the first time an important Irish nexus. The resulting work adds an important new dimension to our existing understanding of this period.

America's Destruction of Iraq (Hardcover): Michael M. O'Brien America's Destruction of Iraq (Hardcover)
Michael M. O'Brien
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bulus ibn Raja' - The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam (English, Arabic, Hardcover): David... Bulus ibn Raja' - The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam (English, Arabic, Hardcover)
David Bertaina
R3,530 Discovery Miles 35 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Bulus ibn Raja' (ca. 955-ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Raja' later converted to Christianity and composed The Truthful Exposer (Kitab al-Wadih bi-l-Haqq) outlining his skepticism regarding Islam. His ideas circulated across the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the medieval period, shaping the Christian understanding of the Qur'an's origins, Muhammad's life, the practice of Islamic law, and Muslim political history. This book includes a study of Ibn Raja''s life, along with an Arabic edition and English translation of The Truthful Exposer.

History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World... History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R621 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R60 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Hardcover): Marc... Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Hardcover)
Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, Elise Massicard
R5,821 Discovery Miles 58 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire up to the present day. It explores how institutions at work are being framed by constant interactions with non-institutional characters from various social realms. This volume thus approaches the state-society continuum as a complex and shifting system of positions. Inasmuch as they order and ordain, state authorities leave room for compromise, something which has hitherto been little studied in concrete terms. By combining in-depth case studies with an interdisciplinary conceptual framework, this collection helps apprehend the morphology and dynamics of public action and state-society relations in Turkey. Contributors are: Marc Aymes, Olivier Bouquet, Nicolas Camelio, Nathalie Clayer, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto, Berna Ekal, Benoit Fliche, Muriel Girard, Benjamin Gourisse, Sumbul Kaya, Noemi Levy Aksu, Elise Massicard, Jean-Francois Perouse, Clemence Scalbert Yucel, Emmanuel Szurek and Claire Visier.

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