Robert L. Winzeler

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook explores Southeast Asia's modern peoples and their cultural ways and patterns of adaptation. It introduces the region's geography, languages, prehistory, and history, then delves into religion, ethnic complexity, food production, development, and tourism, and the changes that these evolving aspects of life have upon Southeast Asia's peoples and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780759118638
• ISBN-10: 0759118639
• Artikelnr.: 31994253

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Winzeler is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his AM and PhD from the University of Chicago and has done extensive long-term fieldwork in both insular and mainland Southeast Asia. His numerous books include The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today (2011) and Anthropology and Religion, Second Edition (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Prehistory and Languages Chapter 3.
Early States, Prehistory, and Colonialism Chapter 4. Ethnic Complexity in
Modern Southeast Asia Chapter 5. Hunter-Gatherers, Real and Imagined
Chapter 6. Swidden Farmers Chapter 7. Peasant Farmers and their
Transformations Chapter 8. Indigenous Religions Chapter 9. Religion,
Society, and the State Chapter 10. Religious Conversion on the Ethnic
Margins Chapter 11. Tourism and Local Peoples Chapter 12. Development for
Better or Worse Chapter 13 Bibliography