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Modernity and identity : Asian illustrations / Alberto Gomes.

Title
Modernity and identity : Asian illustrations / Alberto Gomes.
Author
Gomes, Alberto G., 1954-
Publication
Bundoora, Vic : La Trobe University Press, 1994.

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La Trobe University
Description
285 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Comparative Asian studies series
Uniform Title
Comparative Asian studies series.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Ethnicity > Asia
  • Civilization, Modern > 20th century
  • Group identity > Asia
  • Asia > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction / A. Gomes -- ch. 2. Subalternity and the construction of Malay identity / J. Kahn -- ch. 3. Desire and conquest: the politics of erotism and repression in the construction of Chinese identity / A. McLaren -- ch. 4. Gender and modernity in Malaysia / M. Stivens -- ch. 5. Modernity, identity and constructions of Malay womanhood / L. Healey -- ch. 6. Modernist anthropology's comparative project: the construction of Indian identity as tradition / K. Ram -- ch. 7. Development and tradition in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese State and minority Tamils / R. Bastin -- ch. 8. Modernity and Semai ethnogenesis / A. Gomes -- ch. 9. Building identity and the modernisation of language: minority language policy in Thailand and China / D. Bradley -- ch. 10. Modern Japan and social identity: minority youth in school to work transition / K. Okano -- ch. 11. The politics of identity: Malay squatters in industrialising Malaysia / P. Guinness -- ch. 12. The construction of subordination in India: the untouchables and the OBC / O. Mendelsohn.
ISBN
1863240160
LCCN
^^^94235853^
OCLC
  • 33598676
  • SCSB-12303581
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library