Artist collectives emerge as driving forces in the art field. They activate new spaces as locales of artistic practice and display. They shape emerging formats, from neighborhood arts projects to largescale biennials. In their practice, the artists challenge established notions of art as well as hegemonic circumscriptions of locality. This book results from a long-term engagement with artists i…
Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe. Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved an…
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of 'the Other' through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other…
Buku Central Asian Sources and Central Asian Research: Selected Proceedings from the International Symposium “Central Asian Sources and Central Asian Research” membahas beragam sumber sejarah dan kebudayaan yang menjadi dasar penelitian tentang Asia Tengah. Disunting oleh Johannes Reckel, buku ini menghimpun makalah terpilih dari simposium internasional yang mempertemukan sekitar tiga puluh…
Muslim Syiah Ismaili di Asia Tengah memiliki sejarah politik yang kompleks. Buku akses terbuka ini adalah studi berbahasa Inggris pertama tentang Muslim Ismaili di wilayah ini, berdasarkan analisis tentang keilmuan Rusia, Soviet, dan pasca-Soviet tentang mereka. Ini menyoroti sejarah dan warisan mereka, dan juga menunjukkan bagaimana Ismailiyah di Asia Tengah telah dipahami dan disajikan dalam …
Buku akses terbuka ini mendemonstrasikan keterkaitan antara bahasa lokal, pengetahuan tradisional, dan keanekaragaman hayati di tingkat lanskap di Asia, memberikan pendekatan baru untuk diskusi tentang keanekaragaman hayati Asia. Buku ini mengedepankan analisis sebelumnya tetapi yang terpenting berfokus pada 'kalender ekologi tradisional', 'pengobatan tradisional', dan 'nama rakyat' dalam konte…
Banyak masyarakat mengalami peningkatan umur panjang dan penuaan populasi secara bersamaan dengan meningkatnya urbanisasi dan mobilitas. Pergeseran demografis dan struktural yang fundamental seperti itu telah tercermin dalam banyak narasi dan strategi tentang cara "menua dengan baik" mengingat lingkungan yang berubah dengan cepat, mobilitas orang, dan perubahan hubungan sosial. Volume ini menge…
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the theories of academic ability model. It also discusses in detail the history of "Lesson Study" – a cha…
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out acr…