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Scott W Aalgaard
Homesick Blues

Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard ca…

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Yuiko Asaba
Tango in Japan

"Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of…

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Christopher J Bae
The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia

"Compared to paleoanthropological (human evolution) research in Africa and Europe, similar studies on Asia have lagged far behind. The purpose of this work is to partially rectify this discrepancy. The ma…

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Judith Beyer
Rethinking Community in Myanmar

"In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of "we-formation" to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of w…

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Joel Bradshaw
Numbami Grammar in Ethnohistorical Context

The Numbami language is a small isolate, tied to only one coastal village, within the Huon Gulf family of Austronesian languages in Papua New Guinea. It is currently classified as threatened, with roughly…

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Peter J Oluloa Britos
Valley of Spiraling Winds

In the mystical Valley of Spiraling Winds, deep in the mountains of Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu, old memories stir. Hawaiian writer Peter Britos explores the roots of contemporary Hawaiʻi through the lens of a dy…

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Maryann Bylander
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

"The Trade-Offs of Legal Status explores the costs, risks, and unfreedoms produced alongside migrant regularization in Southeast Asia. In 2017, Thailand's military government enacted a new migration law c…

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Sungdai Cho, Hee Chung Chun, Ji-Young Jung, Kijoo Ko
Integrated Korean

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1, the ninth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All…

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Sungdai Cho, Hee Chung Chun, Ji-Young Jung, Kijoo Ko
Integrated Korean

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: High Advanced 2, the tenth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

"How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhi…

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Annika A Culver
Democratizing Luxury

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produ…

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D&,
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

"This publication represents an English rendering of one of the great classics of Japanese Buddhism, the Shåobåogenzåo, by Dåogen (1200-1253), founder of the Såotåo Zen school. The translation was produce…

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

"The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricat…

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Sherry D Fowler
Buddhist Bells and Dragons

"Buddhist Bells and Dragons: Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan recovers the essential but unrecognized roles of Buddhist temple bells in the history of art, religious studies, and the history of i…

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Janet R Goodwin
Dodging and Confronting Stigma

"Dodging and Confronting Stigma examines the lives of people who were stigmatized or marginalized in Japan's late classical and medieval ages. Often characterized as beggars, they in fact pursued a variet…

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Vincent Goossaert,
The Beef Taboo in China

Praise for the French edition "It will no longer be possible to discuss Chinese civilization without referring to this work, the foundation for a new vision of culture and religiosity in China. Scholars …

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Vincent Goossaert,
The Beef Taboo in China

Praise for the French edition "It will no longer be possible to discuss Chinese civilization without referring to this work, the foundation for a new vision of culture and religiosity in China. Scholars …

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Arne Harms
Enduring Erosions

"Talking to people as we make our way around the village, we learn about the consequences of coastal erosion. We hear about, and see, the progress made by the sea and the rather futile efforts to subdue t…

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Teru Hasegawa,
Whispers from a Storm

"Whispers from a Storm is a collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru. In 1937, the twenty-five-year-old Hasegawa sailed from her home in Nara for…

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Natasha Heller,
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

"In Literature for little bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent …

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