Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples write by Jean Michaud. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The originality of this book lies in the combination of multi-disciplinary mixing of social anthropology, history and human geography; multi-culturality grouping together several cultural contexts; trans-nationality straddling five countries and bridging the traditional divide between South China and Mainland South-East Asia; and history reaching back 300 years.
Myanmar
Myanmar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myanmar write by N Ganesan. This book was released on 2007. Myanmar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers issues of historical influence and political considerations that have shaped the dominant thinking within the state and the military. Examines the three major ethnic groups in the country - Karen, Kachin, and Shan. Deals with how the various ethnic groups are trying to cope with decades of conflict and reconstruct their communities.
Missions and Conversions
Missions and Conversions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Missions and Conversions write by T. Pearson. This book was released on 2009-06-22. Missions and Conversions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of "missionaries" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands during the Vietnam War, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. His insightful study considers not just evangelicals and Catholics, but humanitarian workers in the highlands, refugee resettlement volunteers in the United States, and the American Special Forces soldiers. This book makes the case that the Dega have appropriated the anthropological and religious discourses of this disparate group of missionaries to recreate themselves through a multivalent "conversion."
Culture and Customs of the Hmong
Culture and Customs of the Hmong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Customs of the Hmong write by Gary Yia Lee. This book was released on 2010-09-16. Culture and Customs of the Hmong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives. Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years. It is the first book to combine an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong with a full account of their modern, urban lifestyle, balancing traditional lifeways and practices with modern, evolving customs. The book is unique in dealing, not only with the Hmong in the United States, Australia, and other Western nations, but also with their traditional and changing lives in their Asian homelands of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This broad international perspective allows readers to look at the Hmong through the complex interplay of the many social, historical, economic, and cultural influences they have been exposed to in their worldwide migration, and at how they manage to maintain their many traditions across national boundaries and great distances.
Strategies for Tourism Industry
Strategies for Tourism Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategies for Tourism Industry write by Murat Kasimoglu. This book was released on 2012-04-20. Strategies for Tourism Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, it is considered good business practice for tourism industries to support their micro and macro environment by means of strategic perspectives. This is necessary because we cannot contemplate companies existing without their environment. If companies do not involve themselves in such undertakings, they are in danger of isolating themselves from the shareholder. That, in turn, creates a problem for mobilizing new ideas and receiving feedback from their environment. In this respect, the contributions of academics from international level together with the private sector and business managers are eagerly awaited on topics and sub-topics within Strategies for Tourism Industry - Micro and Macro Perspectives.
