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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0824822137ISBN 13: 9780824822132
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Softcover. Condition: New. A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect of rural communities and makes a convincing case for an approach that integrates farm and nonfarm occupations and does justice to the conditions of occupational multiplicity that characterize, to an increasing extent, many of the rural communities in Asia. In this context, it challenges conventional (and simplistic) "peasant to proletarian" views of change. Rather than finding a dreary and dispirited landscape of sameness and hardship, it offers some empirical support for amore optimistic view of the region's future, one of growing household prosperity and widespread individual opportunity.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824815483ISBN 13: 9780824815486
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Translations and criticism of 77 songs and ballads of early imperial China. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0824823427ISBN 13: 9780824823429
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The Beginning Level texts and workbooks are the first of a four- level series (Beginning 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, Advanced Intermediate, and Advanced) developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology-learner-centeredness, contextualization, use of authentic materials, function/task-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced with simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples, exercises, and drills. Each situation/topic-based lesson of the main texts consists of two or three model dialogues, narration, new words and expressions, pronunciation notes, vocabulary notes, culture, grammar, task/function, and English translation of dialogues. The workbooks provide students with extensive skill-using activities based on the skills learned from the main texts. Integrated Korean is a project of the Korean Language Education and Research Center (KLEAR) with the support of the Korea Foundation. In addition to the four-level textbooks and workbooks, forthcoming volumes include instructor's manuals, Chinese Character Studies, Korean Composition, Selected Readings in Korean, Readings in Modern Korean Literature, Korean Language in Culture and Society, and A Dictionary of Korean Grammar and Usage.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1981
ISBN 10: 0824807367ISBN 13: 9780824807368
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by McKnight, Brian E.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 082481505XISBN 13: 9780824815059
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ji, Li; Li, Ji (illustrator). The twenty stories that comprise this collection reflect some of the ethnic diversity of China. Through a cast of familiar animals we get a glimpse of the cultures from which the stories emanate, and we see that the world is interconnected and the planet quite small. The tales show that our similarities are much greater than our differences. Besides their literary value, these tales convey moral instruction.The second part of the book gives background information about the nationalities from which the tales have been selected. Carolyn Han describes the geographical area each group occupies and its social life and customs.Each tale is enhanced with an illustration by Li Ji, an artist and lecturer at Yunnan Art Institute of Kunming, China. He brings to this volume his first-hand knowledge of minority peoples and a deep understanding and love for animals and the environment.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1995
ISBN 10: 0824816781ISBN 13: 9780824816780
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Ferdinand Magellan's fateful landfall on Guam, the first inhabited Pacific island known to Europeans, ushered in the age of European exploration in the Pacific and led inexorably to foreign domination of every traditional island society throughout Oceania. In the centuries after Magellan's landing in 1521, Guam became a small green oasis for alien priests, soldiers, traders, pirates, and other expatriates. Destiny's Landfall tells the story of this colorful cavalcade of outsiders and of the indigenous Chamorro people who, in a remarkable feat of resiliency, maintained their language and their identity despite three centuries of colonial domination by three of history's most powerful nation-states: Spain, Japan, and the United States.Today, international airlines, nuclear-powered submarines, and satellite tracking stations have replaced Spanish galleons. But though Americanized, modernized, and multiethnic, Guam continues to fulfill the geopolitical role imposed on it by outsiders. In this comprehensive look at one of the world's last colonies, Robert E. Rogers evokes the dramatic but little-known saga of Guam's people - from the precontact era to Spanish domination, from colonial rule under a U.S. naval government to the massive military invasions of World War II, and on through the booms and busts, the scandals and victories experienced by Guamanians in their still-unfulfilled quest to regain control of their future.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814665ISBN 13: 9780824814663
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Full color soft cover with a 369 page crusing guide to the Pacific Islands.
Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0824825314ISBN 13: 9780824825317
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Graphs, charts, photographs, maps, and timelines enhance a history of modern Japan.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1976
ISBN 10: 0824804112ISBN 13: 9780824804114
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reveals the common metaphysical and religious roots of astronomy and astrology and relates facts about stars and constellations.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2024
ISBN 10: 0824824318ISBN 13: 9780824824310
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Edel, Leon.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0824816137ISBN 13: 9780824816131
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No scientific traveler was more influenced by the Pacific than Charles Darwin, and his legacy in the region remains unparalleled. Yet the extent of the Pacific's impact on the thought of Darwin and those who followed him has not been sufficiently grasped. In this volume of essays, sixteen scholars explore the many dimensions - biological, geological, anthropological, social, and political - of Darwinism in the Pacific.Fired by Darwinian ideas, nineteenth-century naturalists within and around the Pacific rim worked to further Darwin's programs in their own research: in Seattle, conchologist P. Brooks Randolph; in Honolulu, evolutionist John Thomas Gulick; in Adelaide, botanist Richard Schomburgk; and in Malaysia, biogeographer Alfred Russel Wallace. Lesser-known enthusiasts furnished Darwin with fresh material and replied to his endless inquiries, while young aspiring biologists from Cambridge tested Darwinian ideas directly in the "laboratory" of the Pacific. But the implications of Darwinism for the understanding of human nature and history turned it into a public theory as well as a scientific one. Anthropologists, geographers, missionaries, politicians, and social commentators - from Australia to Japan - all found ways to adapt Darwinism to their own agendas.Darwin's Laboratory demonstrates the variety and richness of Darwinian ideas in the Pacific and, in so doing, shows how the region functioned as a testing ground for the theory of evolution. Further, it illustrates how Darwinian ideas and their European contexts helped invent and define the particular conception we have of the Pacific. Both the general reader and the specialist will find controversy, illumination, and entertainment in this, the first book to probe the extent of Darwinism and Darwinian thinking in the Pacific.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 0824814517ISBN 13: 9780824814519
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. Book by.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0824825780ISBN 13: 9780824825782
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The discourse of Buddhist studies has traditionally been structured around texts and nations (the transmission of Buddhism from India to China to Japan). And yet, it is doubtful that these categories reflect in any significant way the organizing themes familiar to most Buddhists. It could be argued that cultic practices associated with particular buddhas and bodhisattvas are more representative of the way Buddhists conceive of their relation to tradition. This volume aims to explore this aspect of Buddhism by focusing on one of its most important cults, that of the Buddha Amitabha. Approaching the Land of Bliss is a rich collection of studies of texts and ritual practices devoted to Amitabha, ranging from Tibet to Japan and from early medieval times to the present.The cult of Amitabha is identified as an integral part of Tibet's Mahayana Buddhist tradition in the opening essay by Matthew Kapstein. Next Daniel Getz, Jr., locates the Pure Land patriarch Shengcheng more firmly in a Huayan context and his Pure Conduct society not so much in the propagation of Pure Land praxis but as a means of modifying anti-Buddhist sentiments. Jacqueline Stone's study of the practice of reciting nenbutsu at the time of death gives us an understanding of both the practice itself and the motivating logic behind it. Kakuban--the founder of the one major "schism" in the history of the Shingon tradition--is placed in a typology of Japanese Pure Land thought in James Sanford's study of Kakuban's Amida hishaku. Hank Glassman contributes an essay on the "subsidiary cult" of Chujohime, which derived from the cult of Amitabha but grew to such importance that it displaced the latter as the focus of worship in medieval Japan.In his examination of "radical Amidism," Fabio Rambelli discusses different forms of Japanese Pure Land thought that constitute divergences from the mainstream or normative forms. Richard Jaffe examines the work of the seventeenth-century cleric Ungo Kiyo, who sought to match his teaching to the needs and capacities of his disciples. Todd Lewis highlights the importance of cultic life and finds traces of the desire for rebirth into Sukhavati in stupa worship among Newari Buddhists. Charles Jones' "thick description" of a one-day recitation retreat in Taiwan provides us with a closer look at how the cult of Amitabha continues in present-day East Asia.Approaching the Land of Bliss moves beyond the limitations of defining Buddhism in terms of its textual corpus or nation states, opening up the cult of Amitabha in Nepal, Tibet, China, and Taiwan, and uncovering new aspects of Japanese Pure Land.
Published by Brand: University of Hawai'i Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0824802705ISBN 13: 9780824802707
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Coffman, Tom.
Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1977
ISBN 10: 0824805100ISBN 13: 9780824805104
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This book talks about the beaches of O'ahu the location, photographs, recreational facilities, emergency aid, parking and picnic areas, water sports and fascinating bits of coastline lore.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 0824808371ISBN 13: 9780824808372
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Atlas of Hawaii - the standard reference work for the State of Hawaii for a decade - has been completely revised and expanded to be as up-to-date as possible and to introduce new subjects. Developed and compiled by the Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, each section is written by an expert on the subject. Based on 1980 Census.
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Published by Brand: University Of Hawaii Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0824808657ISBN 13: 9780824808655
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pau Hana is the first history of plantation life in Hawaii to describe the experiences of all the plantation laborers - Hawaiians, Chinese, Norwegians, Germans, Portuguese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and others. Based on original sources such as diaries, business records, oral histories, and work songs, Pau Hana recreates the world of plantation Hawaii. Here is the story of the founding of the first plantation at Koloa and the development of the sugar industry, the migration of hundreds of thousands of workers to the islands, their day-to-day experiences in the fields and mills, the culture and community they created in the camps, and finally the first significant interethnic strike in Hawaii.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1975
ISBN 10: 0824803949ISBN 13: 9780824803940
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during the past two decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 0824818210ISBN 13: 9780824818210
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Who Runs the University? is the first book to explore in detail the inner workings of public higher education in Hawaii. The author served as Vice President for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Hawaii during the seven-year period Albert Simone was president and during the early years of the Kenneth Mortimer administration. As a participant observer the author provides a lively, detailed account of the key players - their egos, self-interests, and oftentimes brilliance - who played supporting roles during the Simone era, a period of unprecedented growth for the university.Based on approximately 15,000 documents from 1981 to 1995 totaling 228,000 pages, the author describes with unusual candor the behind-the-scenes activity, the give and take, and the decisions of high-ranking university officials responsible for exercising authority at the University of Hawaii - including regents, administrators, deans and directors, and faculty. The actions of non university officials who influence Hawaii's higher education policy and funding are also described - federal officials, state officials, and powerful legislators.Beyond the hundreds of personalities mentioned and beyond all the controversial events described, the fundamental question raised is who is in charge of higher education in Hawaii: the academic leadership, the board of regents, or the politicians downtown? This book identifies the players, their strengths and weaknesses, the events and the drama (sometimes a tragic comedy) that drives the politics of higher education in Hawaii.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0824827473ISBN 13: 9780824827472
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is an artfully written and penetrating examination of interactions between Western travelers and Toba Batak wood carvers in the souvenir marketplaces of Samosir Island, North Sumatra. Toba Batak carvings, ranging from simple human figures of wood to elaborately engraved water buffalo horns, are described in tourist guidebooks and by Toba Batak vendors alike as "traditional" and "antique," despite many recent changes and inventions in form. This pathbreaking work investigates how notions of place and self are constructed by the travelers and the Bataks in the context of ethnic tourism. The author proposes that these interactions be understood in light of Louis Marin's concept of utopics, suggesting that tourist venues such as hotels and marketplaces are neutral spaces where both locals and visitors can act out behaviors that would ordinarily be constrained by their respective cultures.The transformation of Toba Batak woodcarving is one result of such marketplace interactions. The Western tourist's desire for traditional art has encouraged Batak carvers to continue to make objects based on forms developed by their animist predecessors, the majority of whom converted to Christianity at the turn of the century. Toba Batak carving style, however, is far from static; artisans create innovative pieces that they frame within the same historically legitimizing narratives used for "traditional" objects. Tourists, seeking proof of their travels in representative icons of place, purchase both innovative and traditional forms, largely unaware of the difference.Rich in ethnographic description and employing a lively narrative style, Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is essential reading for students and scholars with interests in anthropology, cultural studies, globalization and tourism research, art history, and identity studies.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1991
ISBN 10: 0824813146ISBN 13: 9780824813147
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. English (translation)Original Japanese.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1991
ISBN 10: 0824813499ISBN 13: 9780824813499
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Heider, Karl G.
Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0824807146ISBN 13: 9780824807146
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Bushnell, O. A.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1997
ISBN 10: 0824818822ISBN 13: 9780824818821
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Creating a People and Press in Meiji Japan (Hardcover) by James L. Huffman.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1996
ISBN 10: 0824816951ISBN 13: 9780824816957
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution occurred in the second decade after Mao Zedong and his comrades came to power in 1949. A comprehensive narrative account of this colossal event, written by Yan Jiaqi, one of the principal leaders of China's pro-democracy movement, and his wife, Gao Gao, a noted sociologist, appeared in Hong Kong in 1986 and was quickly banned by the Communist government. Not surprisingly, censorship and restricted circulation in China resulted in underground reproduction and serialization. The work was thus widely read, coveted, and appreciated by a populace who had just freed itself from the cultural drought and political dread of the event. Yan and Gao later spent two years revising and expanding their work. The present volume, Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution, is based on the revised edition and has been masterfully edited and translated by D. W. Y. Kwok in consultation with the authors. Following Professor Kwok's eloquent introduction and a short foreword in which the authors analyze the basic causes of the Cultural Revolution, Part One of the narrative focuses on the years 1965-1967. In two short years, Mao managed to turn public opinion against Liu Shaoqi, president of the Republic, and launch the Cultural Revolution. The reader is introduced to the Red Guards and encounters the cult of personality, the first resistance to the Cultural Revolution, the attack on Zhou Enlai, and the persecution and death of Liu Shaoqi. Part Two examines the rise and fall of Lin Biao during the years 1959-1971. Lin's bid for power, which began with the consolidation of his personal clique in the army and mass-level persecution in the late stages of theCultural Revolution, ended in a failed coup and his death in an air crash. Part Three follows Jiang Qing from 1966 to her arrest in 1976 for her part in instigating mass violence and the persecution of key figures, including Zhou Enlai. During this period, the political fortunes of Deng Xiaoping rose and fell for a second time, the first protest at Tiananmen Square in 1976 ended in a bloody suppression, and that same year the Gang of Four were arrested. Unlike social scientific treatments of political phenomena, Turbulent Decade includes little discussion of economics, still less of international relations, and no institutional analysis. Instead, the authors' fervent belief in the truthful telling of history through its leading personalities pervades the work.
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Published by Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0824809750ISBN 13: 9780824809751
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Hammond, Joyce.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0824829166ISBN 13: 9780824829162
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The subject of colonialism encompasses a multitude of analytic concerns about the nature and extent of political controls, economic inequalities, and social hierarchies. Underlying the varied conditions of power and subordination are the diverse, sometimes contested representations of human difference that motivate, support, or question colonial practices and projects. Unstable Images concentrates a critical gaze on this discursive side of colonialism through close readings of a series of Western texts on the people of New Ireland from the 1870s to the 1930swhen the status of the New IrelandNew Britain region changed from precolonial to German control and finally to a League of Nations mandated Australian administration.By narrowing her focus in both space and time, Brenda Clay reveals new insights into the complex dynamics through which images of "self" and "other" are continually transformed. Engaging with the current literature on both colonialism! and processes of creativity within cross-cultural encounters, Unstable Images provides an in-depth analysis of Western colonial representations along with a reflective ethnographic understanding of islander responses. Through selective, careful reading of these textswritten for the most part by missionaries and anthropologistsClay imparts a sense of the complexities and ambiguities inherent in colonial socialities. She purports that representations of "otherness" are essentially unstable, observable in ambivalence, contradictions, ambiguities, and alterations within and between discourses. Colonial situations did not produce mere echoes from the metropolis but instead yielded diverse discursive performances emerging out of local contingencies.Although the examined representations occur within, or just prior to, the institution of colonialism in the islands, Unstable Images is a perceptive look at the processes through which people formulate and express motivating separations between themselves and others. It will prompt readers to rethink previous conceptions about the colonial encounter and contribute substantially to postcolonial debates.
Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0824816994ISBN 13: 9780824816995
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature, and art history present a broad range of exploration into sacred biography as an interpretive genre. Sacred Biography brings together the erudite scholarship of major scholars. The combination of thematic depth and theoretical sophistication makes this volume innovative reading for all scholars with comparative interests in the study of religion, history, and anthropology.
Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0824811372ISBN 13: 9780824811372
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Softcover. Condition: Good. xii + 140 pages including 2 appendices, step-by-step instructions in basic lei-making using several of the most common methods of construction, , lots of bw illustrations.
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Published by Brand: University of Hawaii Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0824813871ISBN 13: 9780824813871
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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