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Over the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on how these societies change over time. Islands of Order draws on their pioneering fieldwork to show how the science of complexity can be used to better understand unstable dynamics in culture, language, cooperation, and the emergence of hierarchies.Complexity science has opened exciting new vistas in physics and biology, but poses challenges for social scientists. What triggers fundamental, discontinuous social change? And what brings stable patterns-islands of order-into existence? Lansing and Cox begin with an incisive and accessible introduction to models of change, from simple random drift to coupled interactions, phase transitions, co-phylogenies, and adaptive landscapes. Then they take readers on a series of journeys to the islands of the Indo-Pacific to demonstrate how social scientists can harness these powerful tools to discover out-of-equilibrium social dynamics. Lansing and Cox address empirical questions surrounding the colonization of the Pacific, the relationship of language to culture, the emergence and disappearance of male and female hierarchies, and more.Unlocking new possibilities for the social sciences, Islands of Order is accompanied by an interactive companion website that enables readers to explore the models described in the book.
Social structure. --- Islands of the Pacific. --- Asia --- Pacific Ocean --- Austronesier --- Ozeanien --- Südostasien
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Geology, Stratigraphic --- Geology --- Carbonate reservoirs --- Paleontology --- Carbonate reservoirs. --- Cenozoic Geologic Period. --- Geology. --- Geology, Stratigraphic. --- Paleontology. --- Geologie. --- Stratigraphie. --- Känozoikum. --- From 65 million years ago --- Australasia. --- Australien. --- Südostasien.
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History of Asia --- History of Southern Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Southeast Asia --- Turkey --- Panislamism. --- International relations. --- Kulturkontakt. --- Panislamismus. --- 1288 - 1918 --- Southeast Asia. --- Turkey. --- Osmanisches Reich. --- Türkei. --- Südostasien. --- History --- History. --- Relations --- International relations --- Osmanisches Reich --- Südostasien --- Südostasien. --- Türkei.
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In Austronesia' the region that stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east-music plays a vital role in both the construction and expression of social and cultural identities. Yet research into the music of Austronesia has hitherto been sparse. Drawing together contemporary cultural studies and musical analysis, Austronesian Soundscapes will fill this research gap, offering a comprehensive analysis of traditional and contemporary Austronesian music and, at the same time, investigating how music reflects the challenges that Austronesian cultures face in this age of globalization.
Music --- Performing arts --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism. --- Ozeanien. --- Südostasien.
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A new perspective on archaeological studies of the urban and agricultural water supply and distribution systems of the major ancient civilizations of South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia. Ortloff uses modern computer analysis methods to extract the true hydraulic/hydrological knowledge base available to these peoples.
Water-supply engineering --- Paleohydrology. --- Water resources development --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Palaeohydrology --- Paleoflood hydrology --- Hydrology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Engineering, Water-supply --- Civil engineering --- Engineering --- Hydraulic engineering --- Water --- History --- Purification --- History. --- Naher Osten. --- Südostasien. --- Altamerika.
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Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Länderforschung. --- Südostasien. --- Southeast Asia. --- S31/0400 --- S31/0100 --- #ANTIL0402 --- Indo China and South East Asia--South East Asia general (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Papua New Guinea) --- Indo China and South East Asia--Indo-China: general (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma) --- Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- politics --- social development --- Southeast Asia --- Länderforschung. --- Südostasien. --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Politics --- southeast asia --- international relations --- current affairs
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Food habits --- Kinship --- Agriculture --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Social aspects --- Food --- Dinners and dining --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- Repas --- Familles --- Aspect social --- Southeast Asia --- Social life and customs. --- Südostasien --- Ernährungsgewohnheit --- Verwandtschaft --- Kongress --- Hamburg 1998
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This volume originates from the proceedings of an international conference convened by the Department of History and Civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen, in Kuala Lumpur, from 26 to 28 August 2005. Twelve out of thirty-five papers presented at the conference have been reviewed, thoroughly revised and published in this volume. The introduction and the twelve chapters address the question of Hadhrami identity in Southeast Asia from various perspectives and investigate the patterns of Hadhrami interaction with diverse cultures, values and beliefs in the region. Special attention is paid to Hadhrami local and transnational politics, social stratification and integration, religio-social reform and journalism, as well as to economic dynamism and the cosmopolitan character of the Hadhrami societies in Southeast Asia.
Auswanderung --- Einwanderung --- Kulturelle Identität --- Arabs --- Hadrami (Arab tribe) --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Habbani (Arab tribe) --- Hadhrami (Arab tribe) --- Tihama (Arab tribe) --- Hadramaut --- Jemeniten --- Südostasien --- Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) --- Muḥāfaẓat Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen) --- Hadhramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Hadramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Khadramaut (Yemen : Province) --- Ḥatsarmut (Yemen : Province) --- Governorate Number Five (Yemen) --- Fifth Governorate (Yemen) --- Al-Muḥāfaẓah al-Khāmisah (Yemen) --- Muḥāfaẓah al-Khāmisah (Yemen) --- Emigration and immigration
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As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race , this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to trans-Pacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis.
Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social conditions. --- East Asia. --- Pacific Area. --- Ostasien --- Pazifischer Raum --- Südostasien --- USA --- Westliche Vereinigte Staaten --- Asien --- Südostasiaten --- Ferner Osten --- Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum --- Pazifik --- Pazifische Länder --- Pazifik-Staaten --- Pazifischer Ozean --- Zirkumpazifischer Raum --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim --- East --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Asia --- Weststaaten
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Mountainous regions are vitally important ecosystems. They are an important storage of fresh water and energy, a rich source of biodiversity and a significant provider of food for the people living there. They are ecologically highly variable, complex and vulnerable and ethnically, socio-culturally and economically extremely heterogeneous. At the same time they are under severe and increasing pressures caused by higher population growth, inmigration, resource exploitation and rising demands and expectations. They also account for a major share of poverty and food insecurity in rural areas. Given their importance, complexity and vulnerability mountainous regions pose a demanding and new challenge for agricultural research, particularly for research that is addressing environmental sustainability, poverty and food insecurity. The University of Hohenheim’s long-term research program “Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia” (Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 564 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, also known as “The Uplands Program”) is taking on that challenge. It is an integrated interdisciplinary research program where sustainable innovations for agricultural production systems, combining fruit trees, crops, livestock and aquacultural production in their interaction with soil, water and agrochemical use are analysed, as well as their impact on landscape diversity and population dynamics of pests and beneficial insects. Further along the value added chain of agricultural production, potentials of product conservation, processing and marketing are studied.
Land use --- Government policy --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Ecology. --- Environmental management. --- Physical geography. --- Agriculture. --- Nature Conservation. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Environmental Management. --- Physical Geography. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Geography --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Conservation --- Ecology --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Ecology . --- Nature conservation. --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Südostasien.
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