Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore

Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and SingaporeThe volume collects the published articles of Dr. Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped creating the fields of religious studies, migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, focusing

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland’s history

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This volume opens a window onto a unique culture of politicised working-class drama by offering four plays that highlight the diversity of Chartist performance: a verse tragedy concerning the Newport rising

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This collection includes essays on Salman Rushdie

scholars provide both broad overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and detailed analyses of specific texts

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