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Zheng: Eine lebendige Tradition
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch versteht sich als eine musikethnologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Studie über das Zheng – die chinesische Wölbbrett-Zither – innerhalb eines gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungsprozesses. Das Zheng ist heute ein sehr beliebtes und weithin sichtbares Musikinstrument in China. Viele Stücke sind überaus bekannt. Im offiziellen Kultursystem genießt es einen …
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- 9783662708170
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- XLIV, 226 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Transnational Southeast Asia = Communities, Contestations and Cultures
This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might be. Instead of vie…
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- 9789819636082
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- XIX, 342 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues = 100 Years and Beyond
This open access book explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historical, political, economic, social and psychological dimensions that intersect with these challenges. It offers a rich and nuanced understanding of T…
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- 9789819615834
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- XVIII, 369 hlm ill; lamp
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Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
Dalam Narasi Kekuasaan di Kekaisaran Eurasia, 1300-1800, Richard van Leeuwen menganalisis representasi dan konstruksi ide kekuasaan dalam teks fiksi dari berbagai genre, terutama yang termasuk dalam lapisan perantara antara sastra populer dan resmi. Analisis ini menunjukkan bagaimana ideologi kekuasaan tersemat dalam imajinasi sastra dan budaya masyarakat, nilai-nilai budaya, dan konseptualisas…
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- 9789004340541
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- online resource ( VIII, 278 Pages)
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- Pemerintah & Kelompok Elite
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- 909.09821 LEE n
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia; Texts, Traditions and Practices…
Memori dan Peringatan di Asia Tengah: Teks, Tradisi, dan Praktik, Abad ke-10 hingga ke-21 adalah kumpulan dari empat belas studi oleh sekelompok sarjana yang aktif di bidang Studi Asia Tengah, menyajikan penelitian baru tentang berbagai aspek warisan budaya yang kaya di Asia Tengah (termasuk Afghanistan). Dengan memetakan dan mengeksplorasi interaksi antara produksi politik, ideologis, sastra, …
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- 9789004540996
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- online resource ( XVIII, 381 Pages)
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- Studi Leiden tentang Islam dan Masyarakat
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- 958.004 PAS m
Writing Tamil Catholicism = Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighte…
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South I…
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- 9789004511620
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- 372 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Philological Encounters Monographs, Volume: 3
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Uma Politics : An Ethnography of Democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 19…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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- '9789004253926
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 260
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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan : Religion, State, and Shintō
eligious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies (shuk
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- 978-90-04-27268-2
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Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelisti…
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- 978-90-04-28805-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 300
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Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comp…
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- 978-90-04-27764-9
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- Studies in Persian Cultural History, Volume: 14
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