1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459296903321

Autore

Winzeler Robert L

Titolo

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : AltaMira Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-21363-X

9786613213631

0-7591-1864-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (501 p.)

Disciplina

305.800959

Soggetti

Ethnology - Southeast Asia

Ethnology -- Southeast Asia

Human geography - Southeast Asia

Human geography -- Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia - Economic conditions

Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions

Southeast Asia - Social conditions

Southeast Asia -- Social conditions

Southeast Asia - Social life and customs

Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Prehistory and Languages; 3; Early States, Civilization, and Colonialism; 4; Ethnic Complexity in Modern Southeast Asia; 5; Hunter-Gatherers, Real and Imagined; 6; Swidden Farmers; 7; Peasant Farmers and Their Transformations; 8; Indigenous Religion; 9; Religion, Society, and the State; 10; Religious Conversion on the Ethnic Margins; 11; Tourism and



Local Peoples; 12; Development for Better or Worse; Notes; References and Suggested Reading; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook explores Southeast Asia's modern peoples and their cultural ways and patterns of adaptation. It introduces the region's geography, languages, prehistory, and history, then delves into religion, ethnic complexity, food production, development, and tourism, and the changes that these evolving aspects of life have upon Southeast Asia's peoples and cultures.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784143603321

Autore

Kennedy Emmet

Titolo

Secularism and its opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn [[electronic resource] /] / Emmet Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36118-6

9786611361181

0-230-60168-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

211.609

Soggetti

Secularism - History

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction; Introduction Part I: Augustine and Aquinas; Introduction Part II: Renaissance and Reformation; Introduction Part III: Autonomy in the Enlightenment; Introduction Part IV: The Dialectic Upward and Downward; Introduction Part V: Reaction against Secularism; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.