NIAS Monographs

This series presents innovative research monographs about any part of Asia but the emphasis is on East and Southeast Asia with most volumes falling within the social sciences and history.

 

Key issues include political change; peace and conflict; gender and power; development, political and socio-economic change; identity formation; environmental change; and recent Asian history.

 

The series is commissioned by NIAS Press’ Editor-in-Chief Gerald Jackson.

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Performing the Divine

Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam

Kirsten W. Endres

NIAS Monographs # 118
Hardback - 2011, In production
ISBN 978 87 7692 075 1, ££50.00
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Paperback - 2011, In production
ISBN 978 87 7694 076 8, ££16.99
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Cambodians and Their Doctors

A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia

Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell

NIAS Monographs # 117
Hardback - 2010, Recently Published
ISBN 978 87 7694 057 7, £50.00
Paperback - 2010, Recently Published
ISBN 978 87 7694 058 4, £18.99
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Between Frontiers

Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland

by Noboru Ishikawa

NIAS Monographs # 116
Paperback - 2010, Recently Published
ISBN 978 87 7694 050 8, £16.99
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Violence and Belonging

Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan

by Are Knudsen

NIAS Monographs # 115
Hardback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 044 7, £50.00
Paperback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 045 4, £18.99
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Fiery Dragons

Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma

by Sean Turnell

NIAS Monographs # 114
Hardback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 041 6, £45.00
Paperback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 040 9, £18.99
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Proper Islamic Consumption

Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia

by Johan Fischer

NIAS Monographs # 113
Hardback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 031 7, £40.00
Paperback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 032 4, £17.99
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Creating Laos

The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945

by Søren Ivarsson

NIAS Monographs # 112
Hardback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 022 5, £35.00
Paperback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 023 2, £17.99
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Other Landscapes

Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India

by Deborah Sutton

NIAS Monographs # 111
Hardback - 2009, Recently published
ISBN 978 87 7694 027 0, £40.00
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Land and Longhouse

Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak

by R. A. Cramb

NIAS Monographs # 110
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 010 2, £25.00
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Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand

Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change

by Anders Poulsen

NIAS Monographs # 109
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 003 4, £18.99
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Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia

Discourses of Emancipation

by Mona Lilja

NIAS Monographs # 108
Hardback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 71 7, £40.00
Paperback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 020 1, £16.99
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A New God in the Diaspora?

Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore

by Vineeta Sinha

NIAS Monographs # 107
Paperback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 95 3, £17.99
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Burma and Japan Since 1940

From ’Co-Prosperity’ to ’Quiet Dialogue’

by Donald M. Seekins

NIAS Monographs # 106
Hardback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 98 4, £40.00
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 017 1, £16.99
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Japanese Education and the Cram School Business

Functions, Challenges and Perspectives of the Juku

by Marie Hojlund Roesgaard

NIAS Monographs # 105
Hardback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 91 5, £35.00
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Village China at War

The Impact of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945

by Dagfinn Gatu

NIAS Monographs # 104
Hardback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 83 0, £55.00
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 030 0, £19.99
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Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma

by Judith Richell

NIAS Monographs # 103
Paperback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 70 0, £17.99
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17th-Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680

by Wil O. Dijk

NIAS Monographs # 102
Paperback & CD - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 69 4, £18.99
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Indonesian Literature vs New Order Orthodoxy

The Aftermath of 1965-1966

by Anna-Greta Nilsson Hoadley

NIAS Monographs # 101
Hardback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 61 8, £30.00
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka

Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830

by Nordin Hussin

NIAS Monographs # 100
Hardback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 47 2, £50.00
Paperback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 88 5, £19.99
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Civil Society and Democratization

Social Movements in Northeast Thailand

by Somchai Phatharathananunth

NIAS Monographs # 99
Hardback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 38 0, £42.00
Paperback - 2006, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 85 4, £16.99
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Divinity and Diversity

A Hindu Revitalization Movement in Malaysia

by Alexandra Kent

NIAS Monographs # 98
Hardback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 40 3, £40.00
Paperback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 89 2, £14.99
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Better to Rely on Ourselves

Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979

by Hatla Thelle

NIAS Monographs # 97
Hardback - 2004, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 26 7, £45.00
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Commoners and Nobles

Hereditary Divisions in Tibet

by Heidi Fjeld

NIAS Monographs # 96
Hardback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 17 5, £40.00
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Modernization and Effeminization in India

Kerala Cashew Workers Since 1930

by Anna Lindberg

NIAS Monographs # 95
Hardback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 21 2, £40.00
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The UP Saga

by Susan M. Martin

NIAS Monographs # 94
Hardback - 2003, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 20 5, £50.00
Paperback - 2004, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 51 9, £19.99
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Red Hills

Migrants and the State in the Highlands of Vietnam

by Andrew Hardy

NIAS Monographs # 93
Hardback - 2003, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 80 9, £50.00
Paperback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 74 8, £19.99
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Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan

The Decline and Transformation of the Kanguku Juku

by Margaret Mehl

NIAS Monographs # 92
Hardback - 2003, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 03 8, £40.00
Paperback - 2005, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 94 6, £15.99
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In Search of Chin Identity

A Study in Religion, Politics and Ethnic Identity in Burma

by Lian H. Sakhong

NIAS Monographs # 91
Hardback - 2003, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 15 1, £45.00
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Tanegashima

The Arrival of Europe in Japan

by Olof G. Lidin

NIAS Monographs # 90
Hardback - 2002, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 10 6, £42.00
Paperback - 2002, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 12 0, £16.99
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Performing the Nation

Cultural Politics in New Order Indonesia

by Jorgen Hellman

NIAS Monographs # 89
Hardback - 2003, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 09 0, £40.00
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    Summer will soon be upon us, they say (the Danish spring has been particularly dismal this year), and – as a result – the Copenhagen headquarters of NIAS Press will be semi-dormant for a few weeks in July. Elsewhere, however, no holiday is planned and quite a few things with regard to the Press will be happening. These include:

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