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Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

2009
L. Hjorth, D. Chan
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The Place of Confucianism in Pluralist East Asia

Comparative Political Theory, 2021
Abstract In this commentary on Shaun O’Dwyer’s Confucianism’s Prospects, I raise three challenges to the arguments presented in the book. First, against his empirical claim that East Asian societies have already become pluralistic, I show that there are important empirical studies supporting the “Confucian heritage” thesis that O’Dwyer rejects. Second,
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Southeast Asia. Subjects and Places

2014
The first monographic issue of the new series of Antropologia was born within the Italian Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ITASEAS) and is the expression of a network of local and European researchers who study Southeast Asia. The essays tackle the relationship between subjects and places in contemporary Southeast Asia, and more precisely ask ...
VIGNATO, SILVIA, ALCANO, MATTEO CARLO
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Iconic Places in Central Asia

2016
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix maps three iconic places as part of Central Asians' 'moral geographies' and examines their role in navigating socialist, neo-liberal and neo-Islamic life models. Dams provide most of Kyrgyzstan's electricity, but are also at the heart of regional water disputes that threaten an already shrinking Aral Sea.
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The Place of Russia in Europe and Asia

The European Legacy, 2013
Edited by Gyula Szvak (Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2010), x + 283 pp. $50.00 cloth.The book under review is a collection of twenty-one papers from a number of conferences held at the Eo...
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Central Asia as Place

2022
Alexander C. Diener, Nick Megoran
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Place, Power and People: Southeast Asia's Temple Tradition

Arts asiatiques, 2009
O'Connor Richard A. Place, Power and People: Southeast Asia's Temple Tradition. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 64, 2009. pp. 116-123.
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Turkmenistan’s Place in Central Asia and the World

1997
The Caspian Sea region has become one of the most sensitive areas of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and of an enlarged Middle East. The vast resources of oil and natural gas have given a new relevance to the newly independent states of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in the domain of energy policy and geopolitics, both within the ...
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Shamanism

First published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986 ...
M. Eliade
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Asia's place in the imaging of Australian sport

Sport in Society, 2009
Since the 1970s, the Australian-Asian sport relationship has intensified and has developed greater depth.
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