Identity in crossroads civilisations : ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia /

Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to...

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Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Kolig, Erich, Angeles, Vivienne S. M., 1944-, Wong, Sam
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]
Series:	ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 8.
Subjects:	Ethnology > Asia. Ethnicity > Asia. Nationalism > Asia. Globalization > Asia. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General. Ethnicity. Ethnology. Globalization. Nationalism. Asia. Culture and institutions > Sociology > Culture and instituten > Sociologie Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities / Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles
Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights / Elena Asciutti
Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / Toru Ueda
Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan / Rup Kumar Barman
Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India / Sali Augustine
Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Sam Wong
Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India / Samar Kumar Biswas
Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space / Krishna Sen
Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context / Minna Säävälä
Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs / Eddy Y.L. Chang
Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia / Charlene Rajendran
Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines / Vivienne SM. Angeles
Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security
and the return of the Xenophobes / Erich Kolig.