Regional and Area Studies
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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An Introduction to Changing India
Culture, Politics and Development
Sirpa Tenhunen, Minna Säävälä
This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857288059
December 2012
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£24.95 / $24.95This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.
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Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra
Ludo Rocher
Edited by Donald R. Davis, Jr
foreword by Richard W. LariviereThis book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field of Indology.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285508
September 2012
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£130.00 / $130.00This book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field of Indology.
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Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India
Bihar, 1760s–1880s
Nitin Sinha
This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284488
September 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
Konstantinos Retsikas
The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285294
August 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.
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Reading by Numbers
Recalibrating the Literary Field
Katherine Bode
‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284549
July 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
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Mapping the Nation
An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870–1920
Edited by Sheshalatha Reddy
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284419
June 2012
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£130.00 / $130.00Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.
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Russian Language Studies in North America
New Perspectives from Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Edited by Veronika Makarova
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287847
June 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.
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New Lithuania in Old Hands
Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania
Ida Harboe Knudsen
‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284532
May 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers.
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The Voice of the People
Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760–1914
Edited by Matthew Campbell, Michael Perraudin
‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318941
March 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.
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Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India
Interrogating Political Society
Edited by Ajay Gudavarthy
This volume critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283504
March 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.
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Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines
Digging to Development or Digging to Disaster?
William N. Holden, R. Daniel Jacobson
This book explores how natural hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago’s poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287762
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This book explores how natural hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago’s poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture.
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Iron Lazar
A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich
E. A. Rees
The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ provides an insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, and examines Kaganovich’s role in shaping policy during the Stalinist regime.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283498
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ provides an insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, and examines Kaganovich’s role in shaping policy during the Stalinist regime.
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Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China
A Case Study of the Influence of Christian Ethics on Business Life
Joy Kooi-Chin Tong
Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283535
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.
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Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy
Toward Inclusive and Green Growth
Edited by Hal Hill, Muhammad Ehsan Khan, Juzhong Zhuang
‘Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy: Toward Inclusive and Green Growth’ analyzes the critical development constraints facing the country, and proposes policy options to help overcome these constraints and set the country on a path of high and sustained inclusive economic growth in the medium term.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284471
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy: Toward Inclusive and Green Growth’ analyzes the critical development constraints facing the country, and proposes policy options to help overcome these constraints and set the country on a path of high and sustained inclusive economic growth in the medium term.
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Language, Texts, and Society
Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion
Patrick Olivelle
This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284310
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts.
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Ascetics and Brahmins
Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Patrick Olivelle
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284327
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
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Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284334
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.
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The Anthropologist and the Native
Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
Edited by H. L. Seneviratne
‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284358
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.
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Tradition, Veda and Law
Studies on South Asian Classical Intellectual Traditions
Federico Squarcini
The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284365
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.
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Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia
Edited by Federico Squarcini
This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284303
December 2011
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£130.00 / $130.00This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
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Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia
Preservation, Development, and Neglect
Edited by John N. Miksic, Geok Yian Goh, Sue O’Connor
‘Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia’ explores the challenges facing efforts to protect the cultural assets of Southeast Asia from the ravages of tourism and economic development.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283894
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia’ explores the challenges facing efforts to protect the cultural assets of Southeast Asia from the ravages of tourism and economic development.
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Studies in the Kasikavrtti. The Section on Pratyaharas
Critical Edition, Translation and Other Contributions
Edited by Pascale Haag, Vincenzo Vergiani
This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284341
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.
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The Mahanubhavs
Antonio Rigopoulos
This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284013
December 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.
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Festivals, Affect and Identity
A Deleuzian Apprenticeship in Central Italian Communities
Lita Crociani-Windland
This book offers an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy in relation to the ethnographic study of Siena’s Palio and other community festivals of the Siena Province in central Italy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857289988
October 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This book offers an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy in relation to the ethnographic study of Siena’s Palio and other community festivals of the Siena Province in central Italy.