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Islands of order : a guide to complexity modeling for the social sciences
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ISBN: 0691197539 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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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.


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Cenozoic carbonate systems of Australasia


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From Anatolia to Aceh : Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9780197265819 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,


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Austronesian soundscapes : performing arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 128305020X 9786613050205 9048508118 9089640851 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam : IIAS / Amsterdam University Press,

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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.


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Water engineering in the ancient world : archaeological and climate perspectives on societies of ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia
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ISBN: 0191917494 1282354620 9786612354625 0191553549 9780191553547 0199239096 9780199239092 9780191917493 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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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.


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Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs.
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ISSN: 18681034 07228821 18684882 Year: 2009 Publisher: Hamburg : London : Institute of Asian Studies at GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies SAGE

Kinship and food in South East Asia
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ISBN: 8776945480 9788776945480 8791114934 9788791114939 Year: 2007 Volume: 38 Publisher: Copenhagen Abingdon NIAS Marston [distributor]


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The Hadhrami diaspora in Southeast Asia : identity maintenance or assimilation?
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ISBN: 128240069X 9786612400698 9047425782 9789047425786 9789004172319 9004172319 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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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.


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Gendering the trans-Pacific world
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ISBN: 9004336109 9789004336100 9789004336094 9004336095 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden

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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.


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Sustainable Land Use in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia : Meeting the Challenges of Ecological, Socio-Economic and Cultural Diversity
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ISSN: 18635520 ISBN: 1281179299 9786611179298 3540712208 3540712216 3642090303 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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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.

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