The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region
- ISBN-10
- 0759118647
- ISBN-13
- 9780759118645
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-16
- Publisher
- Rowman Altamira
- Author
- Robert L. Winzeler
Description
This textbook explores Southeast Asia's modern peoples and their cultural ways and patterns of adaptation. It introduces the region's geography, languages, prehistory, and history, then delves into religion, ethnic complexity, food production, development, and tourism, and the changes that these evolving aspects of life have upon Southeast Asia's peoples and cultures.
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- 2011
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