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Author:   Hiromu Shimizu
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Imprint:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.998kg
ISBN:  

9781925608847

ISBN 10:   1925608840
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1 Thinking about Globalization at the Periphery: An Attempt at an Anthropology of Response ability Part I: Five Hundred Years of Negotiating with Global Powers 2 The Ifugao Lifeworld: A Fascination for Anthropologists and Communist Guerillas 3 Life amid the Blessings of Forests: Rice Terrace Cultivation and Woodcarving 4 Confronting Global Power from the Margins: Invasions and Resistance Part II: Re establishing the Connection between the Local and the Global 5 The Praxis of Meaning in Lopez Nauyac's 'Global' Gaze 6 Memories of Overdevelopment: Kidlat Tahimik's 'Circumnavigation of the World' 7 The Politics of Representation: Culture as a Resource Part III: Negotiating with Globalization 8 Working Overseas and Reviving Tradition: Spreading Wings and Putting Down Roots 9 International Cooperation: From Entanglement to a Participatory Anthropology 10 Grassroots: Regional Networks and the Anthropology of Response-ability Bibliography Index

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Hiromu Shimizu is a Japanese cultural anthropologist and Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University. He began teaching as Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, and served at Kyushu University as Assistant Professor in 1985. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo in 1987 for his thesis titled “Change and Sustainability: Accepting Events in the Society of Pinatubo Aeta” (trans.). He was appointed Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Social Culture, Kyushu University, in 1994, and took up his current position at Kyoto University in 2006. He has received prestigious awards including the Award of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (2016) and the Japan Academy Award (2017).

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