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Should Japan and Germany strive to restructure their institutional fabric and arrangements to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards?…
Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of differentiation are frequently underestimated. Important thematic issues include: contingency, path dependence and complementarity. Examinations of economic globalisation and rapidity of technological change pose questions about the nature of socio-economic system analysis in the future.Women and Work in Globalizing Asia (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia #Vol. 36)
By Nicola Piper, Dong-Sook S. Gills. 2004
This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the…
changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and also includes an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US.This book is an invaluable resource, accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of women's studies, labour relations, international political economy and Asian studies.China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy (Routledge Contemporary China Series #Vol. 3)
By Malcolm Warner, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam. 2004
China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since…
1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented economic reforms. China is now opening its protected markets and beginning to submit to the rule of international law. This ongoing transition and increasing participation in the world economy has resulted in significant changes in human resource management and social welfare practices in China's enterprises. The book examines the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world: state-owned enterprise reform, capital markets and financial reform, human resources and labour market reform, social welfare reform, and China's accession to the WTO and the growth of the private sector.The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands
By Paula Brown. 2004
In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been…
living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined. This volume illustrates, contrary to widely held preconceptions about the nature of primitive societies, that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past. Originally published in 1973.Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies (Culture, Illness And Healing Ser. #15)
By Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter. 2004
Recognizing the significance of cultural aspects in the practice of medicine, this book places a strong emphasis on the social…
structure, customs, and history of the indigenous population and its ramifications on health care providers. The book also considers the econo-cultural influences on the way medicine is practiced. By including chapters that focus on health care's sudden advent as commodity and the microeconomic approach to public funding for health care facilities, the Nichters explore a world in which money and patients' expectations play an ever increasing role in the way health care is provided.The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition
By Caroline Hughes. 2004
Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command…
economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy stands, even in the face of new strategies of international democracy promotion.Meaning in Culture
By F. Allan Hanson. 2004
Meaning in Culture discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right,…
or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals. It also investigates the problem of relativism and explores the question of whether anthropology and the other social sciences are really scientific. First published in 1975.Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World
By Josiane Cauquelin. 2004
Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma…
people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000, and inhabiting the Southeastern province of Taitung. The study looks at the historical changes in the status and definition of these people in relation to the central state, the criteria by which people determine their own ethnic identity, and the evolution of that identity through history. The increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations makes this an especially timely book.Source Book Modern Hinduism
By Glyn Richards. 2004
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on…
the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of recent scholarship are evaluated and organised thematically to provide a framework for analysis, and the history and current landscape of contemporary Tibetan and Zen Buddhist practice in Britain are also mapped out. A number of patterns and processes identified elsewhere are exemplified, although certain assumptions made about the nature of 'British Buddhism' are subjected to critical scrutiny and challenged.Themes in Economic Anthropology
By Raymond Firth. 2004
The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional…
scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans. First published in 1967.Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000 (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia #Vol. 27)
By A.J.H. Latham, Heita Kawakatsu. 2004
Politics of Culture in Iran (Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series)
By Nematollah Fazeli. 2004
This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in…
the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author highlights the three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran: *the period of nationalism: lasting approximately from the constitutional revolution (1906-11) and the end of the Qajar dynasty until the end of Reza Shah’s reign (1941) *the period of Nativism: from the 1950s until the Islamic revolution (1979) *the post-revolutionary period. In addition, the book places Iranian anthropology in an international context by demonstrating how Western anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies affected epistemological and political discourses on Iranian anthropology.The Syrian Desert: Caravans Travel and Exploration (The Crusades And Military Orders #Second Series)
By Christina Phelps Grant. 2003
This historical survey written by a scholar and traveller gives the reader a well informed and readable account of an…
area of the world which has held and still holds a most significant geographical location in the Middle East - both culturally and commercially.Time, Space and the Unknown: Maasai Configurations of Power and Providence
By Paul Spencer. 2004
China's Third Economic Transformation: The Rise of the Private Economy (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia #No.41)
By Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song. 2004
The Chinese economy is currently undergoing an institutional transformation as profound as the replacement of the people's communes with the…
household responsibility system in the early 1980s and the emergence of township and village enterprises as the main locus of economic dynamism in the second half of the 1980s. This third dramatic transformation is the emergence of the private sector as the main source of the country's economic growth. This book discusses the key issues in private sector development in China and includes: An overview of the development of private enterprises in China Analysis of the development and emerging paths toward private enterprise Examination of the business environment in which private enterprises operate How the legal environment has changed through economic reform Managerial capabilities and state-business interactions Suggestions of policy recommendations Perhaps controversially, the contributors suggest that private sector development is necessary to maintain the dynamism of the Chinese economy and create greater employment opportunities. China's Third Economic Transformation will appeal to scholars of Asian Economics and business who are interested in the rapid growth of the private sector in China.This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one…
of the richest portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era', it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a succession of reforms over a hundred years.Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937: Contending with Marginality
By Chandra Mallampalli. 2004
This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian…
nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's 'official knowledge' isolated Christians from Indian notions of family, caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP)…
united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position," the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups.