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Somalis Abroad - Clan and Everyday Life in Finland (Hardcover): Stephanie R. Bjork Somalis Abroad - Clan and Everyday Life in Finland (Hardcover)
Stephanie R. Bjork
R2,419 Discovery Miles 24 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is contested alongside ideas of autonomy and gender equality, challenged by affinities towards others with similar migration experiences, transformed because of geographical separation from family members, and leveraged by individuals for cultural capital. Challenging prevailing views in the field, Bjork argues that clan-informed practices influence everything from asylum decisions to managing money. The practices also become a pattern that structures important relationships via constant--and unwitting--effort.

White Man Falling - Race, Gender, and White Supremacy (Paperback): Abby Ferber White Man Falling - Race, Gender, and White Supremacy (Paperback)
Abby Ferber
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The voice and writings of white supremacists provide the basis for Abby Ferber's provocative critique of America's most extreme form of racism. Using excerpts and illustrations from such rarely seen publications as National Vanguard, White Patriot, and White Power, this new book explores the world of white supremacists and the way they imagine racial and gender identity. Ferber examines their belief that white men are becoming victims, and their response to this threat: the reassertion of white male power. This book provides a history of race as a concept, as well as an account of the white supremacist movement, including such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, the Neo-Nazis, and skinheads. Ferber puts this movement into a wider context, arguing that, in important respects, white supremacist ideology resembles that of the mainstream by sharing basic assumptions about race and gender. White Man Falling is a startling portrait of the perception that white masculinity is in crisis and white supremacist attempts to reassert dominance. The end picture is one that holds serious repercussions not only for the future of the white man, but for all people.

Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Paperback, Revised): Christopher Boehm Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Paperback, Revised)
Christopher Boehm
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? "Hierarchy in the Forest" addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong.

The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. "Hierarchy in the Forest" traces the roots of these contradictory traits in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies. Boehm looks at the loose group structures of hunter-gatherers, then at tribal segmentation, and finally at present-day governments to see how these conflicting tendencies are reflected.

"Hierarchy in the Forest" claims new territory for biological anthropology and evolutionary biology by extending the domain of these sciences into a crucial aspect of human political and social behavior. This book will be a key document in the study of the evolutionary basis of genuine altruism.

Negotiating Boundaries in the City - Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain (Hardcover, New Ed): Joanna Herbert Negotiating Boundaries in the City - Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain (Hardcover, New Ed)
Joanna Herbert
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using in-depth life-story interviews and oral history archives, this book explores the impact of South Asian migration from the 1950s onwards on both the local white, British-born population and the migrants themselves. Taking Leicester as a main case study - identified as a European model of multicultural success - Negotiating Boundaries in the City offers a historically grounded analysis of the human experiences of migration. Joanna Herbert shows how migration created challenges for both existing residents and newcomers - for both male and female migrants - and explores how they perceived and negotiated boundaries within the local contexts of their everyday lives. She explores the personal and collective narratives of individuals who might not otherwise appear in the historical records, highlighting the importance of subjective, everyday experiences. The stories provide valuable insights into the nature of white ethnicity, inter-ethnic relations and the gendered nature of experiences, and offer rich data lacking in existing theoretical accounts. This book provides a radically different story about multicultural Britain and reveals the nuances of modern urban experiences which are lost in prevailing discourses of multiculturalism.

An Earth-colored Sea - 'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World... An Earth-colored Sea - 'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World (Paperback)
Miguel Vale De Almeida
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three case studies, written in the ethnographic genre, are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite - or hybrid - nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings.

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research (Hardcover): Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita M. Denny Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research (Hardcover)
Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita M. Denny
R5,070 Discovery Miles 50 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research is the essential guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environments. Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny argue that, while the recent explosion in the use of "ethnography" in the corporate world has provided unprecedented opportunities for anthropologists and other qualitative researchers, this popularization too often results in shallow understandings of culture, divorcing ethnography it from its foundations. In response, they reframe the field by re-attaching ethnography to theoretically robust and methodologically rigorous cultural analysis. The engrossing text draws on decades of the authors' own eclectic research-from coffee in Bangkok and boredom in New Zealand to computing in the United States-using methodologies from focus groups and rapid appraisal to semiotics and visual ethnography. Five provocative forewords by leaders in consumer research further push the boundaries of the field and challenge the boundaries of academic and applied work. In addition to reorienting the field for academics and practitioners, this book is an ideal text for students, who are increasingly likely to both study and work in corporate environments.

Americans of Italian Heritage (Paperback, New): Margherita Marchione Americans of Italian Heritage (Paperback, New)
Margherita Marchione
R1,664 Discovery Miles 16 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume memorializes the accomplishments of key figures among the Italian-Americans of the twentieth century. They are the descendants of Italian immigrants and, through their achievements, bear witness to the sacrifice and valor of their forefathers. The men and women featured are different from one another in personality and profession. They are contemporary people, highly energetic and intensely involved in achieving their goals and making a contribution to the American dream. They have the capacity to inspire others by their dedication, and strive to help build and shape our nation.

Biological Anthropology and Prehistory - Exploring Our Human Ancestry (Paperback, 2nd New edition): Patricia C. Rice, Norah... Biological Anthropology and Prehistory - Exploring Our Human Ancestry (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Patricia C. Rice, Norah Moloney
R5,255 Discovery Miles 52 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry Second Edition Patricia Rice "(West Virginia University)" Norah Moloney ("Institute"" of Archaeology"")" Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this beautifully illustrated text offers a balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past. Highlights of the New Edition:

  • Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, this text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues and involves students in the scientific thought process.
  • Amidst discussions of bones and artifacts, the text maintains a focus on people, demonstrating to students how biological anthropology and archaeology are relevant to their lives today.
  • Featuring the latest research from original sources, this new text is far and away the most up-to-date text available.
  • The superior art program features hundreds of photographs and figures, and the multimedia presentation options include documentary film clips and lecture launcher videos.
What the reviewers are saying... "I consider Rice and Moloney to be an excellent basic handbook for undergraduate anthropology students focusing on either biological/physical anthropology and/or archaeology ... I know of no other text that contains this basic 'canon' of knowledge within the covers of one book." "Teryl E. Schessler, California State University- Fullerton" "The general approach is highly descriptive and even-handed with respect to controversial issues. As such it is easily readable, would be comfortable to teach, and is well- illustrated." "Joan Brenner Coltrain, University of Utah""""Every chapter in this book is extremely well done and it is very much up to date." "Joanna Casey, University of South Carolina"" " "A solid introduction to human biological and cultural evolution." "James A. Delle, Kutztown University"" " ________________________________________________________________________ ** Anthropology Experience ad here **
Reframing Dutch Culture - Between Otherness and Authenticity (Hardcover, New Ed): Peter Jan Margry Reframing Dutch Culture - Between Otherness and Authenticity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Peter Jan Margry; Herman Roodenburg
R4,641 Discovery Miles 46 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dutch society has undergone radical changes in recent years, due to complex political, social and ethnic developments. Reframing Dutch Culture examines issues of nationality, ethnicity, culture and identity in The Netherlands from an ethnological perspective, linking past traditions and notions of identity with more recent transformations. Weaving in a range of fascinating case studies, contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of these changes. The developments are related to wider European and global transformation processes, highlighting the contribution of Dutch ethnology to the international debate. This timely collection provides a fascinating and insightful window on modern Dutch society.

Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology (Paperback): Zoe C. Sherinian Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology (Paperback)
Zoe C. Sherinian
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew on Tamil folk music to create a distinctive form of indigenized Christian music. Appavoo composed songs and liturgy infused with messages linking Christian theology with critiques of social inequality. Sherinian traces the history of Christian music in India and introduces us to a community of Tamil Dalit Christian villagers, seminary students, activists, and theologians who have been inspired by Appavoo's music to work for social justice. Multimedia components available online include video and audio recordings of musical performances, religious services, and community rituals.

Creolization - History, Ethnography, Theory (Hardcover): Charles Stewart Creolization - History, Ethnography, Theory (Hardcover)
Charles Stewart
R5,072 Discovery Miles 50 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term has been under-theorized and tends to be used as a simple synonym for "mixture" or "hybridity." In this volume, by contrast, renowned scholars give the term historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place. Elucidating the concept in this way not only uncovers a remarkable history, it also re-opens the term for new theoretical use. It illuminates an ill-understood idea, explores how the term has operated and signified in different disciplines, times, and places, and indicates new areas of study for a dynamic and fascinating process.

Nukak - Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People (Hardcover): Gustavo Politis Nukak - Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People (Hardcover)
Gustavo Politis
R4,796 Discovery Miles 47 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last "undiscovered" people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research with hunter-gatherers using contemporary methodological and the theoretical tools. Through a rich and comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture "in the making," this work makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies. Politis's conclusions, based on six years of original research and on comparative analysis, are integrative and contribute to the identification of the multiple factors involved in the formation of hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages.

Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity - New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Hardcover, New Ed): Yvonne Whelan Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity - New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Hardcover, New Ed)
Yvonne Whelan; Edited by Niamh Moore
R4,620 Discovery Miles 46 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and architects. The cultural landscape is often viewed as an emblematic site and thus a key player in the heritage process. This book explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. It provides an overview of new approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States. These case studies demonstrate the significance of the past in the contemporary construction of identity narratives and draw attention to the powerful role of monuments and parades as sites of cultural heritage. The focus then shifts to the way in which heritage has become politicized for various ends, demonstrating the changing perception of particular heritage sites and buildings, and the role that this has played in constructing and reconstructing particular identities.

Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge - Confronting Methodological Fundamentalism (Hardcover, New): Norman K... Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge - Confronting Methodological Fundamentalism (Hardcover, New)
Norman K Denzin, Michael D Giardina
R4,645 Discovery Miles 46 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium. Based upon the plenary papers at the first International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, 22 scholars from five countries and many academic disciplines address how qualitative inquiry can maintain its forward-looking agenda, its emphasis on ethical practice, and its stance in favor of social justice in a world where conservatives aggressively control the political system, the university, and grant agency purse strings. Contributions by such noted scholars as Patti Lather, Janice Morse, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ernest House, Yvonna Lincoln, and H.L. Goodall, Jr. make this an important benchmark work for all involved in qualitative inquiry.

Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge - Confronting Methodological Fundamentalism (Paperback): Norman K Denzin,... Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge - Confronting Methodological Fundamentalism (Paperback)
Norman K Denzin, Michael D Giardina
R1,330 Discovery Miles 13 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium. Based upon the plenary papers at the first International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, 22 scholars from five countries and many academic disciplines address how qualitative inquiry can maintain its forward-looking agenda, its emphasis on ethical practice, and its stance in favor of social justice in a world where conservatives aggressively control the political system, the university, and grant agency purse strings. Contributions by such noted scholars as Patti Lather, Janice Morse, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ernest House, Yvonna Lincoln, and H.L. Goodall, Jr. make this an important benchmark work for all involved in qualitative inquiry.

Dwellers of Memory - Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia (Hardcover): Pilar Riano-Alcala Dwellers of Memory - Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia (Hardcover)
Pilar Riano-Alcala
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This violence has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic social supports and networks of trust. This volume attempts to map and understand its patterns and flows.

The author explores how Medellin's youth locate themselves and make, sense of violence through contradictory and shifting memory practices. The violence has not completely taken over their cultural worlds or their subjectivities. Practices of remembering and forgetting are key methods by which these youth rework their identities and make sense of the impact of violence on their lives. While the experience of violence is rooted in urban space and urban youth, the memory dwellers use a sense of place, oral histories of death, and narratives of fear as survival strategies for inhabiting violent neighborhoods. The book also examines fissures in memory, the contradictory constructions of young people's subjective selves, and practices of gendered violence and terror. All have and continue to pose risks to the historical memory and cultural survival of the residents of Medellin.

Dwellers of Memory offers an alternative ethnographic approach to the study of memory and violence, one that calls into question whether the, role of the ethnographer of violence is to be a mere witness of terror, or to oppose it by writing against it. It will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and students of, ethnography.

German Migrants in Post-War Britain - An Enemy Embrace (Hardcover): Inge Weber-Newth, Johannes-Dieter Steinert German Migrants in Post-War Britain - An Enemy Embrace (Hardcover)
Inge Weber-Newth, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
R4,933 Discovery Miles 49 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Both timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique book examines the little-known and under-researched area of German migration to Britain in the immediate post-war era. Authors Weber-Newth and Steinert analyze the political framework of post-war immigration and immigrant policy, and the complex decision-making processes that led to large-scale labour migration from the continent. They consider: * identity, perception of self and others, stereotypes and prejudice * how migrants dealt with language and intercultural issues * migrants' attitudes towards national socialist and contemporary Germany * migrants' motivation for leaving Germany * migrants' initial experiences and their reception in Britain after the war, as recalled after 50 years in the host country, compared to their original expectations. Based on rich British and German governmental and non-governmental archive sources, contemporary newspaper articles and nearly eighty biographically-oriented interviews with German migrants, this outstanding volume, a must-read for students and scholars in the fields of social history, sociology and migration studies, expertly encompasses political as well as social-historical questions and engages with the social, economic and cultural situation of German immigrants to Britain from a life-historical perspective.

New Perspectives on Anthropology of Landscape (Hardcover): Kanye Dickey New Perspectives on Anthropology of Landscape (Hardcover)
Kanye Dickey
R3,659 R3,297 Discovery Miles 32 970 Save R362 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Taiwanese American Transnational Families - Women and Kin Work (Hardcover): Maria W. L. Chee Taiwanese American Transnational Families - Women and Kin Work (Hardcover)
Maria W. L. Chee
R1,320 Discovery Miles 13 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in Taiwan, the country of origin, and send remittances to support their wives and children in the United States, the receiving country. This book thus contributes to theorizing the class and gender dimensions of international migration, and provides comparative data for the study of transnational migration. It also sheds light on understanding the familial aspect of the many interactions across the Pacific Rim, an aspect that remains understudied.

Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel - The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation (Hardcover, New): Riad M. Nasser Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel - The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation (Hardcover, New)
Riad M. Nasser
R4,938 Discovery Miles 49 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom our sense of self becomes meaningful. This thesis emerges out of the synthesis the study develops from the from the various modern and poststructuralist theories of identity and nationalism.

Armenian-Americans - From Being to Feeling American (Hardcover, New): Anny Bakalian Armenian-Americans - From Being to Feeling American (Hardcover, New)
Anny Bakalian
R4,929 Discovery Miles 49 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Assimilation has been a contentious issues for most immigrant groups in the United States. The host society is assumed to lire immigrants and their descendants away from their ancestral heritage. Yet, in their quest for a "better" life, few immigrants intentionally forsake heir ethnic identity; most try to hold onto their culture by transplanting their traditional institutions and recreating new communities in America. Armenian-Americans are no exception.

Armenian-Americans have been generally overlooked by census enumerators, survey analysts, and social scientists because of their small numbers and relative dispersion throughout the United States. They remain a little-studied group that has been called a "hidden minority." Armenian Americans fills this significant gap. Based on the results of an extensive mail questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and participant observation of communal gatherings, this book analyzed the individual and collective struggles of Armenian-Americans to perpetuate their Armenian legacy while actively seeking new pathways to the American Dream.

This volume shows how men and women of Armenian descent become distanced from their ethnic origins with the passing of generations. Yet assimilation and maintenance of ethnic identity go hand-in-hand. The ascribed, unconscious, compulsive Armenianness of the immigrant generation is transformed into a voluntary, rational, situational Armenianness. The generational change is from being Armenian to feeling Armenian.

The Armenian-American community has grown and prospered in this century. Greater tolerance of ethnic differences in the host society, the remarkable social mobility of many Armenian-Americans and the influx of large numbers of new immigrants from the Middle East and Soviet bloc in recent decades have contributed to this development. The future of this community, however, remains precarious as it strives to adjust to the ever changing social, economic, and political conditions affecting Armenians in the United States; the diaspora; and the new republic of Armenia. Armenian-Americans will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and social historians, and of course to people of Armenian ancestry.

Ethnology, Myth and Politics - Anthropologizing Croatian Ethnology (Hardcover, New Ed): Dunja Rihtman-Augustin, Jasna Capo... Ethnology, Myth and Politics - Anthropologizing Croatian Ethnology (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dunja Rihtman-Augustin, Jasna Capo Zmegac
R4,465 Discovery Miles 44 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book offers a critical overview of Croatian ethnology written by the most prominent Croatian ethnologist/ anthropologist in the second half of the 20th century - Dunja Rihtman-Augustin (recently deceased). She was the first Croatian ethnologist to break with the long established tradition of diffusionist (culture area) studies of her contemporaries and start to anthropologize Croatian ethnology. This book, compiled and completed by Jasna Capo Zmegac, highlights some crucial remarks with regard to the relationship between ethnology and politics. They are formulated as a series of research questions and problems, including: the role of folk culture as mythomoteur, cannonization of the folk culture, nationalization of the peasants in the 19th century and the role of ethnology. This vividly written text offers an exceptional insight into Croatian ethnological developments in the past century, as well as into crucial ruptures in Croatian society which have had important repercussions on ethnological discipline.

The Study of European Ethnology in Austria (Hardcover, New edition): James R. Dow, Olaf Bockhorn The Study of European Ethnology in Austria (Hardcover, New edition)
James R. Dow, Olaf Bockhorn
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of ethnology or 'Volkskunde' in Austria has had a troubled past. Through most of the 20th century it was under the influence of the so-called Viennese 'Mythological School' and the controversy between the two opposing branches, the 'Ritualist' and the 'Mythologists', set much of the agenda from the 1920s until long after the World War ended in 1945. The volume examines two Austrian characters, Richard Wolfram and Karl Haiding, and the impact of their research and sets them in the context of Austrian ethnology before, during and after the war years. The book concludes by examining the present day ethnological outlook in the country.

The Politics of Heredity - Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate (Paperback): Diane B. Paul The Politics of Heredity - Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate (Paperback)
Diane B. Paul
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics, the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift in the meaning of "fitness" in evolutionary theory, the practice of normal science in Nazi Germany, and the making and selling of science textbooks. While the topics are diverse, a common theme unites them -- each explores links between biological science, social power, and public policy.

Masculinity, Power and Technology - A Malaysian Ethnography (Hardcover, New edition): Ulf Mellstroem Masculinity, Power and Technology - A Malaysian Ethnography (Hardcover, New edition)
Ulf Mellstroem
R4,475 Discovery Miles 44 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on fieldwork carried out among male motor mechanics in the Chinese diaspora of Penang, Malaysia, this informative volume explores the links between technology and the masculinization of power. Malaysia shares an obsession with modernity by way of technological development and a "can do" entrepreneurial spirit where technology is held in high esteem. Technology holds such positive connotations in Malaysian society that it is therefore a source of individual and national empowerment. Technology and modernity are therefore important factors when understanding contemporary Malaysian society. Just as there is very much a masculine ethos pervading Malaysia's spirit and belief in modernity and progress, this insightful and rewarding book focuses on technology and machines in relation to masculinity to provide an innovative, anthropological perspective of Malaysian society and the Chinese diaspora.

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