This volume engages the concept and related notions of cultural hegemony, cultural erosion, cultural hybridity and cultural survival by considering whether five regimes in Asia deploy policies aimed at extirpating the language, religion, arts, customs or other elements of the cultures of non-dominant peoples.
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Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries; B.Sautman Redefining the Past, Taking Charge of the Present, Appropriating the Future: the Hokkaido Ainu Case; K. Sjoberg From Forced Assimilation to Cultural Revitalization: Taiwan’s Aborigines Role in Taiwan Nativism; M.Rudolph West Papua: The Discourse of Cultural Genocide and Conflict Resolution; J.O.Ondawame Educating the Naga Headhunters: Colonial History and Cultural Hegemony in Post-Colonial India; D.Kikon Tibet and the (Mis-)Representation of Cultural Genocide; B.SautmanAbout the author
BARRY SAUTMAN is Associate Professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 281 ● ISBN 9780230601192 ● File size 1.3 MB ● Editor B. Sautman ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Published 2006 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2306634 ● Copy protection Social DRM