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Preface | |
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The Anthropology of Asia | |
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Introduction to Asia | |
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Prevalent Stereotypes of Asia | |
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Anthropology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective | |
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The Concept of Culture | |
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Anthropological Vocabulary and Kinship | |
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Why Study Asia? | |
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Notes | |
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Southwest and South Asia | |
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Afghanistan | |
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Introduction | |
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Geographic Setting | |
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Prehistory | |
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History | |
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The Great Game and Colonial Intervention | |
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Demographic Patterns | |
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Effects of the War on Demographic Patterns | |
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Economic Patterns | |
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Pastoralism | |
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Agro-Pastoral Production | |
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War Economy: Drugs and Contraband | |
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Ethnic Groups | |
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Ethnicity | |
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Language and Linguistic Patterns | |
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Family and Society | |
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The Tribal System | |
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Gender Issues | |
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Effects of the War on Gender Roles | |
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Islam in Afghanistan | |
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Political Evolution of the Modern Afghan State | |
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The Afghan State and Foreign Aid | |
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Cold War Rivalries and Afghanistan | |
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The New Democracy and the Nature of the Afghan State | |
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The New Urban Elite and the State | |
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Marxist Revolutionaries and Popular Uprisings: The Road to War | |
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Soviet Military Intervention: How Afghanistan Became a Cold War Battlefield | |
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Proxy Wars, Jihad, and Islamization in Retrospect | |
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The Mujahideen in Retrospect | |
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The Taliban | |
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Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan | |
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Recent Trends: After the Taliban | |
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Notes | |
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India | |
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Geography | |
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Prehistory | |
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Language | |
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History and Politics | |
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British Colonialism in India | |
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Mahatma Gandhi and Indian Nationalism | |
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The End of British Rule | |
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Post-Colonial India | |
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Demography, Economy, and Rural-Urban Differences | |
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Social Life, Family Descent Groups, Kinship, and Gender | |
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Religion | |
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Hinduism in Modern Times | |
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Religion in Historical Perspective | |
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Current Trends | |
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Notes | |
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Pakistan | |
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Introduction | |
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Ethnic and Linguistic Landscapes and Political Foundations | |
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Language, Ethnicity, and Social Life | |
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Family and Gender Relations | |
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Religious Life | |
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Society and Politics in Flux Today | |
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Notes | |
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East Asia | |
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China | |
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Geography | |
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Chinese Paleoanthropology and Prehistory | |
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Chinese-A Matter of Communication | |
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Development of a Standard Spoken Chinese | |
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Chinese Script | |
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Social Mobility: Education and Achieved Status | |
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The Historical Period | |
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From the Beginning: Continuity and Change | |
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The Historical Present | |
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Social Structure | |
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Family | |
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Non-Kin Personal Relationships | |
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Ethnicity | |
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Multiethnic China | |
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China's Minorities Policy | |
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The Muslim Minority in China | |
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Tibetan Minorities | |
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The Chinese Religious Experience | |
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Daoism | |
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Buddhism | |
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Confucian Traditions | |
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Contemporary Religious Issues | |
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Notes | |
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Japan | |
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The Road Ahead | |
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Encountering Japan | |
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A Constantly Changing Landscape | |
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Taking a Longer View | |
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The Japanese Urban Experience | |
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The Japanese House | |
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The Suburbs | |
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Who, Then, Are the Japanese? | |
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Explaining Japan | |
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The Most Alien Enemy | |
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Taking One's Proper Station | |
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The Japanese Are Not Chinese | |
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The Vertical Society | |
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Frames versus Attributes: Japan versus India | |
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The Household as Model | |
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Even in Modern Japan | |
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Two Very Similar Japans | |
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From Stories to Selves | |
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Situated Listening | |
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Changing Japan | |
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The Enduring Conservative Legacy | |
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Economic Ups and Downs | |
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The Most Inescapable Fact | |
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Modernization Taken to the Limit | |
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Men Slipping into the Shadows | |
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Relations between Generations | |
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Suburban Life in Japan | |
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From Idol to Idiot: The Japanese Salaryman | |
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Liberated for What? | |
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What's Love Got to Do with It? | |
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What's Happening to the Kids? | |
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Growing Old in an Aging Japan | |
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Beyond the Middle Class | |
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Geography Also Makes a Difference | |
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Coming to the End of Our Journey | |
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Notes | |
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Korea (North and South) | |
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Geography | |
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Prehistory | |
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Early Paleolithic | |
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Middle and Late Paleolithic | |
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Neolithic | |
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Megalithic | |
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Iron Age Korea | |
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Language | |
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History | |
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Earliest States | |
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The Founding of the Indigenous Three Kingdoms | |
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Three Kingdoms Period | |
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United Silla | |
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Koryo | |
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Choson | |
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The Great Han Empire | |
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Japanese Protectorate | |
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Japanese Colony | |
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Liberation, Division, and Occupation | |
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The Korean War | |
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Politics and Development in South Korea | |
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North Korea | |
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Contemporary Culture | |
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Demography | |
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Economy | |
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Social Life | |
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Issues of Ethnicity | |
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Political Issues | |
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Religion | |
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Current Trends | |
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Security and the Nuclear Issue | |
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Notes | |
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Southeast Asia | |
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Mainland Southeast Asia | |
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Geography and Ecology | |
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Language | |
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Paleoanthropology and Prehistory | |
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The Historical Period | |
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Vietnam: The Sinicized Cultural Region | |
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Western Impact and Colonialism | |
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The Rise of Nationalism, Independence, and Revolution | |
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Post-World War II Nationalism, Independence, and Revolutionary Movements | |
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The Indochina War | |
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The Killing Fields | |
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Postcolonial Contemporary Developments | |
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Demography and the Economy | |
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Social Structure, the Family, and Gender | |
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Ethnic Relations | |
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Buddhism | |
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Notes | |
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Island Southeast Asia | |
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Geography | |
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Prehistory | |
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Language | |
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Historical Influences | |
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Indianization | |
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Islamization | |
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Political Theory in the Precolonial Period | |
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Non-Islamic Southeast Asia on the Dawn of Colonialism | |
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Western Colonialism | |
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Postcolonial History | |
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Contemporary Culture | |
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Economics | |
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Kinship and Gender | |
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Childrearing | |
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Ethnicity Issues | |
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Tribal Peoples of Southeast Asia | |
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Contemporary Islam | |
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Contemporary Christianity | |
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Southeast Asian Hinduism: Bali | |
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Contemporary Animist Religions | |
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Current Trends | |
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Economic Crisis | |
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Political Crisis | |
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Terrorism | |
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The Tsunami | |
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Notes | |
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Contributors | |
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Photo Credits | |
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Index | |