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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 | |