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Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesiaby Clifford GeertzISBN 0520004590 (0-520-00459-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia'Book summary:"A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, Geertz...provides an insightful and persuasive analysis."--The Annals[via]
"If colonial geography ever succeeds in establishing itself as a discrete and integral focus of inquiry, it may well date its majority to the publication of Agricultural Involution."--Geographical Record
"A brilliant and superbly written study...an incisive, even frightening description of the most crucial dilemma in contemporary Indonesia."--Agricultural History
"A valuable and important study...in which source materials from history, economics, soil science, geography and other fields are brilliantly marshalled and interrelated. But besides being an exemplary study in the interaction of history, physical environment and agricultural technology, this book represents a watershed between narrowly conceived ethnographies and the flood of verbose and ill digested post-war 'technology-and-social-change' monographs that are wont to aim high and hit wide...A model of comparative analytical writing."--ManMore editions of Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia:
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American Power and the New Mandarinsby Noam ChomskyISBN 156584775X (1-56584-775-X)
Softcover, New Press, The
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American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky's first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectualsthe "new mandarins"who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.
As America's foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky's lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. [via]
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Anna and the Kingby Margaret LandonISBN 0064408612 (0-06-440861-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna and the King'Book summary:"Are you the lady who is to teach the royal family?"
She inclined her head slightly. "I am."
"Have you friends in Bangkok?"
"I know no one in Bangkok at all."When Anna arrives on a crowded dock in Siam in 1862, she is afraid her friends might have been right: A country as "backward" as Siam is no place for a proper young Englishwoman. And when she meets the king, who is unbearably headstrong and arrogant, she is quite positive she has made a huge mistake.
But then Anna begins her post as governess to the royal children (all sixty-seven of them!), and it's not long before they taught her to love the beauty and excitement of this strange new land. Suddenly she has more friends than she could ever hope for. Yet in the kingdom of Siam, there are rules Anna cannot accept. And as her relationship with the king grows, the conflicts between them grow too. If they are to overcome their differences, Anna and the King will have to meet somewhere between East and West&.
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Anna and the King of Siamby Margaret Landon, Margaret AyerISBN 0060954884 (0-06-095488-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna and the King of Siam'Book summary:"Anna and the King of Siam" is a wonderful blend of old-fashioned fiction writing and the meticulously researched true story of the young English woman who was the tutor to the children of King Mongkut of Siam during the 1860s. Her most important pupil was the prince who would become Thailand's most progressive king. It was Anna who taught him about Abraham Lincoln and the Western ideals which would later influence his reign and the transformation of Thailand from a feudal state to a modern progressive society. [via]
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Softcover, Pocket Books - Anna and the King of Siam: ISBN 0060187905 (0-06-018790-5)
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The Art of Southeast Asiaby Philip S. RawsonISBN 0500200602 (0-500-20060-2)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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At War with Asiaby Noam ChomskyISBN 1902593898 (1-902593-89-8)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At War with Asia'Book summary:[via]In 1970, Noam Chomsky urged Americans to confront and avoid the dangers inherent in the American invasion of Southeast Asia (North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Looking back 30 years later, we still share Chomskys concern: Will this new war lead us to an ever-expanding battle against the people of the world and increasing repression at home?
Drawing in part on his visits to Asia and in part on his extensive reading in the field, Chomsky discusses the historical, political and economic reasons behind our involvement in a Southeast Asian land war. Chomsky examines the impact of our involvement on United States military strategy and what its eventual effect will be in America and abroad. While the people of the world are clearly the victims of U.S. foreign policy, the citizens of the United States have not been able to escape harm. In an eerie prediction of current events, Chomsky states:
It is unlikely that we can continue indefinitely on this mad course without severe domestic depression and regimentation. For those who hope to rule the world, to win what some scholars like to call the game of world domination, American policies in Southeast Asia may appear rational. To the citizens of the empire, at home and abroad, they bring only pain and sorrow. In this respect we are reliving the history of earlier imperial systems. We have had many opportunities to escape this trap and still do today. Failure to take advantages of these opportunities, continued submission to indoctrination, and indifference to the fate of others, will surely spell disaster for much of the human race.
At War With Asia is an indispensable guide to understanding both the past and current logic of imperial force.
Introduction by Christian Parrenti.
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The Beachby Alex GarlandISBN 1573226521 (1-57322-652-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beach'Book summary:In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek [via]
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Burmese Daysby George OrwellISBN 1595404309 (1-59540-430-9)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burmese Days'Book summary:Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who would become the One. Orwell mines his own Anglo-Indian background to evoke both the suffocating heat and the stifling pettiness that are the central facts of colonial life: "Mr. MacGregor told his anecdote about Prome, which could be produced in almost any context. And then the conversation veered back to the old, never-palling subject--the insolence of the natives, the supineness of the Government, the dear dead days when the British Raj was the Raj and please give the bearer fifteen lashes. The topic was never let alone for long, partly because of Ellis's obsession. Besides, you could forgive the Europeans a great deal of their bitterness. Living and working among Orientals would try the temper of a saint."
Protagonist James Flory is a timber merchant, whose facial birthmark serves as an outward expression of the ironic and left-leaning habits of mind that make him inwardly different from his coevals. Flory appreciates the local culture, has native allegiances, and detests the racist machinations of his fellow Club members. Alas, he doesn't always possess the moral courage, or the energy, to stand against them. His almost embarrassingly Anglophile friend, Dr. Veraswami, the highest-ranking native official, seems a shoo-in for Club membership, until Machiavellian magistrate U Po Kyin launches a campaign to discredit him that results, ultimately, in the loss not just of reputations but of lives. Whether to endorse Veraswami or to betray him becomes a kind of litmus test of Flory's character.
Against this backdrop of politics and ethics, Orwell throws the shadow of romance. The arrival of the bobbed blonde, marriageable, and resolutely anti-intellectual Elizabeth Lackersteen not only casts Flory as hapless suitor but gives Orwell the chance to show that he's as astute a reporter of nuanced social interactions as he is of political intrigues. In fact, his combination of an astringently populist sensibility, dead-on observations of human behavior, formidable conjuring skills, and no-frills prose make for historical fiction that stands triumphantly outside of time. --Joyce Thompson [via]
Child of All Nationsby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256334 (0-14-025633-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of All Nations'Book summary:In the second volume of the Baru Tetralogy, the sequel to This Earth of Mankind follows Minke as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustice in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. 20,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. [via]
Development Debacle, the World Bank in the Philippinesby W. Bello, D. Kinley, E. ElinsonISBN 0935028129 (0-935028-12-9)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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English Indonesian Dictionaryby John M. Echols, Hassan ShadilyISBN 0801498597 (0-8014-9859-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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An Eye for the Dragon: South-East Asia Observed, 1954-1970by Dennis BloodworthISBN 0436052016 (0-436-05201-6)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Javaby Diane Lauren WolfISBN 0520086570 (0-520-08657-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java'Book summary:Taking the reader inside the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they labour, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints and changes in women's lives in the Third World. She debunks conventional wisdom about the patriarchal family, while at the same time clearly identifying the complex dynamics of class, gender, agrarian change and industrialization in rural Java. "Factory Daughters" is distinguished by wide-ranging fieldwork in Java and a combination of narratives, rigorous surveys and quantitative analysis. In bringing us the words of many Javanese women, Wolf is able to vividly portray the ways they negotiate employment, income and marriage decisions through the webs of family obligations. The result is an original, effective contribution that deepens our understanding of industrialization and family life in the Third World. [via]
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Footstepsby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256342 (0-14-025634-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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A History of South-East Asiaby Daniel George Edward HallISBN 0312386427 (0-312-38642-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asiaby Jeffrey Alford, Naomi DuguidISBN 1579651143 (1-57965-114-3)
Hardcover, Artisan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia'Book summary:Luminous at dawn and dusk, the Mekong is a river road, a vibrant artery that defines a vast and fascinating region. Here, along the world's tenth largest river, which rises in Tibet and joins the sea in Vietnam, traditions mingle and exquisite food prevails.
Award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid followed the river south, as it flows through the mountain gorges of southern China, to Burma and into Laos and Thailand. For a while the right bank of the river is in Thailand, but then it becomes solely Lao on its way to Cambodia. Only after three thousand miles does it finally enter Vietnam and then the South China Sea.
It was during their travels that Alford and Duguidwho ate traditional foods in villages and small towns and learned techniques and ingredients from cooks and market vendorscame to realize that the local cuisines, like those of the Mediterranean, share a distinctive culinary approach: Each cuisine balances, with grace and style, the regional flavor quartet of hot, sour, salty, and sweet. This book, aptly titled, is the result of their journeys.
Like Alford and Duguid's two previous works, Flatbreads and Flavors ("a certifiable publishing event" Vogue) and Seductions of Rice ("simply stunning"The New York Times), this book is a glorious combination of travel and taste, presenting enticing recipes in "an odyssey rich in travel anecdote" (National Geographic Traveler).
The book's more than 175 recipes for spicy salsas, welcoming soups, grilled meat salads, and exotic desserts are accompanied by evocative stories about places and people. The recipes and stories are gorgeously illustrated throughout with more than 150 full-color food and travel photographs.
In each chapter, from Salsas to Street Foods, Noodles to Desserts, dishes from different cuisines within the region appear side by side: A hearty Lao chicken soup is next to a Vietnamese ginger-chicken soup; a Thai vegetable stir-fry comes after spicy stir-fried potatoes from southwest China.
The book invites a flexible approach to cooking and eating, for dishes from different places can be happily served and eaten together: Thai Grilled Chicken with Hot and Sweet Dipping Sauce pairs beautifully with Vietnamese Green Papaya Salad and Lao sticky rice.
North Americans have come to love Southeast Asian food for its bright, fresh flavors. But beyond the dishes themselves, one of the most attractive aspects of Southeast Asian food is the life that surrounds it. In Southeast Asia, people eat for joy. The palate is wildly eclectic, proudly unrestrained. In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, at last this great culinary region is celebrated with all the passion, color, and life that it deserves. [via]
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House of Glassby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140256792 (0-14-025679-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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House of Glassby Max Lane, Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0140134212 (0-14-013421-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalismby Benedict AndersonISBN 1844670864 (1-84467-086-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalism'Book summary:What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old. [via]
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In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern Historyby David J. Steinberg, David P. Chandler, David Joel SteinbergISBN 0824811100 (0-8248-1110-0)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Placeby Anna Lowenhaupt TsingISBN 0691000514 (0-691-00051-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Place'Book summary:In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.
Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
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Indianized State of South East Asiaby G. CoedesISBN 082480368X (0-8248-0368-X)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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An Indonesian-English Dictionaryby John M. Echols, Hassan Shadily, John U. Wolff, James T. CollinsISBN 0801421276 (0-8014-2127-6)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Making of Southeast Asiaby G. CoedesISBN 0520050614 (0-520-05061-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Companyby MultatuliISBN 0140445161 (0-14-044516-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company'Book summary:When Max Havelaar was first published in Holland in 1860, it ignited a major political and social brouhaha. The novel, written by a former official of the Dutch East Indian Civil Service under the pen name Multatuli, exposed the massive corruption and cruelty rife in the Dutch colony of Java. Max Havelaar is an undeniably autobiographical novel; like his hero, Multatuli--the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker--was an Assistant Resident of Lebak in Java; like Havelaar in the novel, he resigned his position when his accusations of corruption and abuse were disregarded by higher authorities, resulting in years of poverty for both author and fictional hero. Max Havelaar is told from several different perspectives; the reader first meets an Amsterdam coffee dealer named Droogstoppel, a man so obsessed with coffee that his every thought and action is governed by it. Droogstoppel has come by a manuscript from an old schoolmate who, down on his luck, has asked him to get it published. The schoolmate is Havelaar, and the manuscript relates his experiences as an idealistic and generous young civil servant who tries to protect the poor and bring justice to the powerless.
The central part of the novel details conditions in Java, particularly Havelaar's efforts to correct injustices in the face of a corrupt government system. That his efforts will prove futile soon becomes apparent, and there is something almost Greek in the inevitability of Havelaar's declining fortunes. Despite its tragic themes, Max Havelaar is savagely funny, particularly the chapters narrated by Droogstoppel, a character unmatched for his veniality, narrow-mindedness, or singular lack of understanding or imagination. Though Multatuli's masterpiece is nearly 150 years old, it wears its age well, and Roy Edwards's excellent translation offers English-speaking readers a wonderful opportunity to experience one of the Netherlands's great literary classics. [via]
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Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asiaby James C. ScottISBN 0300021909 (0-300-02190-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Baliby Clifford GeertzISBN 0691007780 (0-691-00778-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali'Book summary:Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America.
His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.
Negara means "country" or "seat of political authority" in Indonesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for.... Power served pomp, not pomp power." Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society.
Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.
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Paradise of the Blindby Duong Thu HuongISBN 0688114458 (0-688-11445-8)
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Paradise of the Blindby Nina McPherson, Phan Huy Duong, Duong Thu HuongISBN 0140236201 (0-14-023620-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Paradise of the Blindby Thu Huong Duong, Nina McPherson, Phan Huy DuongISBN 0060505591 (0-06-050559-1)
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex Worldby Cleo OdzerISBN 1559703725 (1-55970-372-5)
Softcover, Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patpong Sisters : An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World'Book summary:Patpong, in the heart of Bangkok, teems with bars and sex shows, catering mainly to farangs -- foreigners. Cleo Odzer, a young anthropologist, spent three years studying the area. Gaining the confidence of the bar girls and bar boys, she interviewed them at length, lived among them, accompanied several back to their families in remote villages. She also got to know their customers, those in for a night or in forever (many fell in love and stayed on in Patpong). From Odzer's account emerges a far different picture from the cliched image of the prostitute. Many of the Patpong girls, smart and enterprising, use their profession for self-liberation and to support their impoverished families back home. Warm and personal, Patpong Sisters reveals the truth about the $4 billion Bangkok economy of sex. [via]
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Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Townsby Clifford GeertzISBN 0226285146 (0-226-28514-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"Peddlers and Princes is, like much of Geertz's other writing, eminently rewarding . . . Case study and broader theory are brought together in an illuminating marriage."Donald Hindley, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Political Systems Of Highland Burmaby E. R. LeachISBN 1845202775 (1-84520-277-5)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Political Systems Of Highland Burma: A Study Of Kachin Social Structureby Edmund Ronald LeachISBN 1845200551 (1-84520-055-1)
Hardcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Readings on Islam in Southeast Asiaby Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique, Yasmin HussainISBN 9971988046 (9971-988-04-6)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Readings on Islam in Southeast Asiaby Sharon Siddique, Ahmad Ibrahim, Yasmin HussainISBN 9971988089 (9971-988-08-9)
Softcover, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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The Rise of Ersatz Capitalism in South-East Asiaby Kunio YoshiharaISBN 019588888X (0-19-588888-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekongby Edward A. GarganISBN 0375705597 (0-375-70559-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sex, Money, and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asiaby Thanh-Dam TruongISBN 086232937X (0-86232-937-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Sorrow of Warby Bao Ninh, Phan Thanh HaoISBN 0679439617 (0-679-43961-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Sorrow of Warby Frank Palmos, Bao Ninh, Phan Thanh HaoISBN 1573225436 (1-57322-543-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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South East Asian Food: Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailandby Rosemary BrissendenISBN 0140461515 (0-14-046151-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Introductory Historyby Milton OsborneISBN 0044422156 (0-04-442215-6)
Softcover, Paul & Co Pub Consortium
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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680: The Lands Below the Windsby Anthony ReidISBN 0300047509 (0-300-04750-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Expansion and Crisisby Anthony ReidISBN 0300065167 (0-300-06516-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Disciplineby Aihwa OngISBN 0887063810 (0-88706-381-0)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysiaby Aihwa OngISBN 0887063802 (0-88706-380-2)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Tetum Ghosts & Kin: Fertility and Gender in East Timorby David HicksISBN 1577662652 (1-57766-265-2)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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This Earth of Mankindby Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max LaneISBN 0140256350 (0-14-025635-0)
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The Ugly Americanby William J. Lederer, Eugene BurdickISBN 141762373X (1-4176-2373-X)
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Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley KarnowISBN 0140145338 (0-14-014533-8)
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War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in Historyby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0595225934 (0-595-22593-4)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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We Have Eaten the Forest: The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnamby Georges Condominas, Adrienne FoulkeISBN 1568360231 (1-56836-023-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Max Havelaar, Of, De Koffiveilingen Der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappyby Multatuli, A. Kets-VreeISBN 903511955X (90-351-1955-X)
Hardcover, Prometheus/B. Bakker
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Max Havelaar, Of, De Koffiveilingen Der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy :Historisch-Kritische Uitgave: Historisch-Kritische Uitgaveby Multatuli, A. Kets-VreeISBN 9023226674 (90-232-2667-4)
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LA Plageby Alex GarlandISBN 225314651X (2-253-14651-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Der Strandby Alex GarlandISBN 3442442354 (3-442-44235-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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