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ISBN: 9788776946999
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Languages : en
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Author: Nathan Porath
Publisher: Nias Studies in Asian Topics
ISBN: 9788776942618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of Southeast Asia, then, the potential is for tumult, an infinity of different sounds competing to be heard. Pandemonium is not unheard of in Southeast Asia--not least in times of political unrest--but in everyday situations uproar is uncommon; cultural, social, political and personal factors (among others) work to calm, channel or even silence the tumult. Providing focus to this interdisciplinary volume on sound in Southeast Asia are detailed descriptions of the context of sounds and sound-making within the region's diverse socio-cultural semiotic frames of hierarchy and power. Drawing on examples from Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, each author discusses some aspect of sound in relation to their ethnographic context. Sound examples are also found on a companion website. Varied approaches to understanding sound are offered but in some way each relates to hierarchy and power. All show the importance of sound for understanding the processual implementation of hierarchy (or its opposite) in the construction of the social environment and the role of sound in the efficacious engagement of power in a variety of religious and political form. This is a much-needed volume. Those scholars working in sound studies and adjoining fields focused outside the West (e.g. ethnomusicology, anthropology), have long known that the field of sound studies is firmly Eurocentric. This long-overdue study of sound in Southeast Asia not only offers non-Western perspectives; it also goes beyond examining sound in isolation, considering this instead in relation to the other senses and to sociocultural constructions. In such ways, then, the volume offers new directions of study, an exciting prospect.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Special Subcommittee on Investigations
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Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Category : Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: James A. Leach
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ISBN: 9780756731038
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Witnesses: Donald K. Emmerson, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford Univ.; Robert Hefner, Ph.D., Institute for Religion & World Affairs, Boston Univ.; Angel M. Rabasa, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst, The RAND Corp.; & Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington Dir., Asia Div., Human Rights Watch. Submitted for the Hearing: James A. Leach, a Representative in Congress from the State of Iowa, & Chmn., Subcommittee on East Asia & the Pacific, Prepared statement; Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, a Representative in Congress from Amer. Samoa, prepared statement; & Earl Blumenauer, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oregon, prepared statement.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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