Aihwa Ong is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (1987). Michael G. Peletz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of A Share of the Harvest (California, 1988).
7 Ebooks por Michael G. Peletz
Michael G. Peletz & Aihwa Ong: Bewitching Women, Pious Men
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather …
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Michael G. Peletz: Islamic Modern
How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants’ strategies? How do women’s claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do s …
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Michael G. (Emory University, USA) Peletz: Gender Pluralism
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!
This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human …
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Michael G. (Emory University, USA) Peletz: Gender Pluralism
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!
This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human …
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€61.69
Robert W. Hefner: Shari’a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of sharia law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing to …
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Michael G. Peletz: Sharia Transformations
Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that pat …
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Michael G. Peletz: Reason and Passion
This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam …
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