This book provides a comprehensive overview of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic minority groups. It covers their history, culture, social structure, minority rights issues, and the challenges they face in the context of China's modernization. It also discusses linguistic diversity, traditions, and how these groups interact with the Han majority and central government policies.
The Study of Chinese Society is a collection of influential essays by anthropologist Maurice Freedman, selected and introduced by G. William Skinner. The book examines the social organization, kinship systems, lineage structures, and cultural patterns of traditional and modern Chinese communities. Freedman's work is foundational in the anthropology of China, offering key theoretical insights in…
Over the past forty years there has been a revolution in South African historiography, yet no broadly interpretative essay on South African history has appeared. The essays in this volume aim to provide such a reinterpretation for the nineteenth century before the discovery of minerals transformed the nature of South African societies, and help to shed light on earlier phases of South Africa's …
India: A World in Transition by Beatrice Pitney Lamb is a comprehensive analysis of contemporary India (at the time of publication), examining how India's traditions, politics, and social structures are undergoing profound change. Lamb presents a comprehensive overview of India's long history while highlighting post-independence challenges such as social reform, education, language, and economi…
The social structures that shape everyday life in Japan. She argues that Japanese society is organized around “frames,” or group-based affiliations, rather than class. These group ties influence authority, loyalty, and social behavior, helping explain how cohesion and hierarchy function within Japanese institutions. The book offers a concise framework for understanding the foundations of Ja…
Despite all the literature on the Arab-Israeli conflict in recent years, there has been little nonpolemical treatment of Palestinian social and political life. The contributors to this volume believe that a richer, more complex view of the interplay between Palestinian society and politics in necessary.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
In Global Paradox, John Naisbitt explores the new global environment of the 1990s and the enormous opportunities and challenges that countries, businesses and individuals will face in this period of growth and transformation at the end of the millennium.
John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangeme…
This book offers a comprehensive guide to identifying the means by which interrelationships of armed services and society can be explored and explained. It indicates the salient variables in these relationships, examines existing theories of civil-military relations, and sets out an overarching theory that seeks to provide both explanations for changes and a tool for prediction.