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Thomas A. Reuter
The Bali Aga are a large ethnic minority of indigenous people that live in the central highlands of Bali. In this ethnographic study, Thomas Reuter examines their elaborate alliance systems…
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This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many…
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This volume brings together a group of eminent international experts to reflect on the positive outcomes of the democratic reform process. The contributors focus specifically on the different approaches and…
This work contains contributions from Indonesia scholars with a common research interest in the island of Bali. The aim is to assess the rapidly changing socio-political landscape of Bali in…
The numerous and varied indicators of environmental risks point toward the likelihood of a systemic and catastrophic ecological failure at some point during this century.
Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia provides a comparative analysis of the key features and aspirations of revitalization movements and assesses their scope for shaping the…
This introduction to parallel programming explores the fundamentals of parallelism, parallel system architecture (MIMD and SIMD), and parallel programming languages, and presents methods for designing parallel algorithms, for writing efficient…
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This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically…
The aim of the series is to publish high-quality studies in English or German that deal with topics in practical philosophy from a broadly analytic perspective. These include questions in…
Vorwort Innovationen im technologischen, organisatorischen aber auch sozialen Bereich bestimmen heute immer mehr unser Leben. Innovationen koennen die gesellscha- liche Entwicklung dabei sowohl positiv als auch negativ beeinflussen. Insbeson- re…
Volker Gottowik
The book casts new light on the relation between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Drug Policy and the Public Good is an objective analytical basis on which to build global drug policies. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on drug use in relation to…
