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The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia Black hardback cloth cover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by King, Victor T; Wilder, William D

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London: RoutledgeCurzon. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). xxxi, 384pp. .
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  • Title The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia
  • Author King, Victor T; Wilder, William D
  • Binding Black hardback cloth cover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - VG : in very good condition without dust jacket
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher RoutledgeCurzon, London
  • Date 2003
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # k4326
  • ISBN 9780415297516 / 0415297516
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.46 x 1.02 in (23.98 x 16.41 x 2.59 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002068244
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.095

From the publisher

This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.

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In our teaching in South-East Asian anthropology we had both been aware for some time of the lack of accessible, readable, theamatic undergraduate teaching texts on the modern anthropology of the region, and specifically on the effects on local communities and societies of process modernization and globalization.

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About the author

Victor King is Professor of South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull, and author of The Peoples of Borneo (1993) and Anthropology and Development in South-East Asia: Theory and Practice (1999). William Wilder is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Durham, and author of Communication, Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia (1982).