This work takes the reader on an informed journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. Accompanying a collaboration between a Vietnamese museum and an American museum on an exhibition of Vietnamese culture, the book moves beyond the troubled history of both nations.
A look at Korea through the lens of its wedding traditions. As Korea becomes more and more modern, men and women consider issues such as gender identity, romantic love, women's careers, marriage negotiations, and the actual wedding ceremonies differently than their parents and grandparents did.
The Siberian Yakaghir people dubbed the camera "the three-legged device that draws a person's shadow to stone." US anthropology's foremost 19th century ethnographic expedition studying the origin of the American Indians serves as a focal point for debatable interpretations of such images as cultura
Since the late 1960s, the lives of South Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalization. Class and gender identities have been modified in relation to a changing modernity and new definitions of home and family, work and leisure, ...
Since the late 1960s, the lives of South Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalization. Class and gender identities have been modified in relation to a changing modernity and new definitions of home and family, work and leisure, ...
A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East, anthropologists Alexia ...
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea's (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women's lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And ...
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