04012 am 22007093u 450 991014001170332120200520144314.01-282-40181-5978661240181790-485-1051-1(CKB)1000000000807905(EBL)474241(OCoLC)476295784(SSID)ssj0000338886(PQKBManifestationID)11243100(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338886(PQKBWorkID)10298055(PQKB)10836051(MiAaPQ)EBC474241(Au-PeEL)EBL474241(CaPaEBR)ebr10346700(CaONFJC)MIL240181(PPN)158029429(EXLCZ)99100000000080790520091002d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIdentity in crossroad civilisations[electronic resource] ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia /edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles and Sam WongAmsterdam Amsterdam University Pressc20091 online resource (263 p.)ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ;8Description based upon print version of record.90-8964-127-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259).Table of Contents; List of Tables and Plates; 1. Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities; 2. Asia and the Global World: Identities, Values, Rights; 3. Creating 'Malaysians': A Case Study of an Urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; 4. Ethnic Mosaic and the Cultural Nationalism of Bhutan; 5. Religion and Cultural Nationalism: Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India; 6. Is Identity Clash Inevitable? Identity and Network Building amongst mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong7. Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India8. Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space; 9. Occidentalism and Asian Middle-Class Identities: Notes on Birthday Cakes in an Indian Context; 10. Ode to 'Personal Challenge': Reconsidering Japanese Groupism and the Role of Beethoven's Ninth in Catering to Socio-Cultural Needs; 11. Performing Cosmopolitan Clash and Collage: Krishen Jit's Stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia12. Constructing Identity: Visual Expressions of Islam in the Predominantly Catholic Philippines13. Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: The Challenges of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security- and the Return of the Xenophobes; Contributors; ReferencesBased 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 increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also enICAS publication series.Edited volumes ;8.EthnologyAsiaEthnicityAsiaNationalismGlobalizationEthnologyEthnicityNationalism.Globalization.301306.095Kolig Erich863997Angeles Vivienne S. M.1944-929744Wong Sam800929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910140011703321Identity in crossroad civilisations2089974UNINA