Asia's cultural mosaic
Subtitle: an anthropological introduction
By: Grant Evans, editor.
Contributors: Evans, Grant, 1948-
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Singapore; Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Ethnology -- Asia.; Anthropology -- Asia.; Social structure -- Asia.; Asia -- Social life and customs.; Asia -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([p. 385]-418 and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : Asia and the anthropological imagination / Grant Evans; title: 2. Asian origins : archaeology and anthropology / Sandra Bowdler; title: 3. The linguistic mosaic / Amara Prasithrathsint; title: 4. Asian families : domestic group formation / Clark W. Sorensen; title: 5. Ancestors and in-laws : kinship beyond the family / Clark W. Sorensen; title: 6. Fishermen, forest-eaters, peddlers, peasants, and pastoralists : economic anthropology / John Clammer; title: 7. Order under heaven : anthropology and the state / Paul T. Cohen; title: 8. Hierarchy and dominance : class, status and caste / Grant Evans; title: 9. The ethnic mosaic / Lian Kwen Fee and Ananda Rajah; title: 10. Women in Asia : anthropology and the study of women / Christine Helliwell; title: 11. Karma and cosmology : anthropology and religion / Nicholas Tapp; title: 12. People in cities : anthropology in urban Asia / Patrick Guinness; title: 13. Into the field : applied anthropology and the dilemmas of development / Jesucita Sodusta; title: 14. Japan : the anthropology of modernity / Joy Hendry; title: 15. A global village? Anthropology in the future / Grant Evans.