Ethnic Groups Of South Asia And The Pacific

Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216081340

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Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific by James B. Minahan Pdf

This comprehensive guide to the Pacific and South Asia provides detailed and enlightening information about the many ethnic groups of this increasingly important region of the world. Ideally suited for high school and undergraduate students studying subjects such as anthropology, geography, and social studies, Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia provides clear, detailed, and up-to-date information on each major group in South Asian and Pacific Island countries, including India, Nepal, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Australia, Tonga, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands. Organized alphabetically by ethnic group, each entry provides an introduction followed by accessible descriptions of the origins, early history, cultural life, political life, and modern history of the ethnicity. Alternate names, major population centers, primary languages and religions, and other important characteristics of each group are also covered. Beyond being a valuable resource for student research, this book will be enlightening and entertaining for general readers interested in South Asia and the Pacific.

Author : James Minahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1785394681

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Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific by James Minahan Pdf

This comprehensive guide to the Pacific and South Asia provides detailed and enlightening information about the many ethnic groups of this increasingly important region of the world.

Author : Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025034641

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Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia by Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly Pdf

First published in 1989, this widely hailed core text of the dynamics of ethnic identities and movements in the South Asian region is perhaps even more relevant today, as the region faces a resurgence of ethno-nationalist sentiments and the outbreak of new ethnic conflict. Among the features of this thoroughly revised edition are: /-/ - it provides a critical appraisal of various theoretical approaches to the study of ethnicity and nation-building /-/ - delineates the ethnic composition of the South Asian Region/-/ - examines the specific state structures of the countries studied: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives/-/ - discusses various ethnic movements in these countries/-/ - covers the most recent developments in the region

Author : Kousar Jabeen Azam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114315166

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Ethnicity, Identity and the State in South Asia by Kousar Jabeen Azam Pdf

Author : Colin Clarke,Ceri Peach,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521375436

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South Asians Overseas by Colin Clarke,Ceri Peach,Steven Vertovec Pdf

Offers essays relating to the South Asian diaspora which occurred after slavery's end in the British Empire.

Author : Peter Robb,Peter G. Robb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038532506

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The Concept of Race in South Asia by Peter Robb,Peter G. Robb Pdf

South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian studies. This volume constitutes one of the first attempts to raise the question comparatively and over a long time-span with regard to South Asia.

Author : Gehan Wijeyewardene
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813035577

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Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia by Gehan Wijeyewardene Pdf

Esays on various ethic groups in mainland Southeast Asia including the Mon, Karen, Yao, Hmong, and various Tai groups.

Author : Girin Phukon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : UOM:39015052357541

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Ethnicity and Polity in South Asia by Girin Phukon Pdf

Contributed seminar articles.

Author : Norman Vasu,Yolanda Chin,Kam-yee Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134598175

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Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific by Norman Vasu,Yolanda Chin,Kam-yee Law Pdf

Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant narratives which arise. It considers the problems in a wide range of countries in the region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Author : R. Wirsing,E. Ahrari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230281271

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Fixing Fractured Nations by R. Wirsing,E. Ahrari Pdf

Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual assessments of separatist struggles and prospects for conflict resolution in eight countries of Asia.

Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598846607

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Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific by James B. Minahan Pdf

This comprehensive guide to the Pacific and South Asia provides detailed and enlightening information about the many ethnic groups of this increasingly important region of the world. Ideally suited for high school and undergraduate students studying subjects such as anthropology, geography, and social studies, Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia provides clear, detailed, and up-to-date information on each major group in South Asian and Pacific Island countries, including India, Nepal, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Australia, Tonga, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands. Organized alphabetically by ethnic group, each entry provides an introduction followed by accessible descriptions of the origins, early history, cultural life, political life, and modern history of the ethnicity. Alternate names, major population centers, primary languages and religions, and other important characteristics of each group are also covered. Beyond being a valuable resource for student research, this book will be enlightening and entertaining for general readers interested in South Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Michel Picard,Robert E. Wood
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824865252

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Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies by Michel Picard,Robert E. Wood Pdf

The expansion of international tourism is changing the relationship between ethnic groups and states around the globe. Yet tourism’s importance for the understanding of ethnicity in the modern world has been generally neglected within the field of ethnic studies. This pioneering volume investigates how international tourism development, state policies of ethnic management, and the active responses of local ethnic groups intersect to reshape ethnic identities and ethnic relations in Asian and Pacific societies. It analyzes the ways in which the very meaning of ethnicity and culture are being contested and reworked in the wake of tourism’s impact. Following an introduction that explores the close but often ambivalent relationship between tourism promotion and state ethnic policies, individual contributors examine tourism’s varied effects in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the island Pacific in rich ethnographic detail.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415049938

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The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia by David Brown Pdf

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

Author : Urmila Phadnis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Asie méridionale - Politique et gouvernement
ISBN : 8170361494

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Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia by Urmila Phadnis Pdf

'This is probably the only work that deals with the entire spectrum of South Asian ethnicity and its dynamic role in regional politics. A decade and a half later after the first edition was published, the work has become even more relevant because ethnic divisions have become sharper all across the region. This updated second edition is thus welcome' "- Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Contemporary South Asia " The new, revised edition of Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia has been rewritten and updated by Rajat Ganguly following the untimely death of the original author Urmila Phadnis.

Author : Kusumā Sanitwong Na ʻAyutthayā,Willard Scott Thompson
Publisher : éditions de l’éclat
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9812303405

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Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia by Kusumā Sanitwong Na ʻAyutthayā,Willard Scott Thompson Pdf

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.