...Mapping the destabilization of land and power in conditions of entanglement is a complex task. If there is a dominant tendency emerging out of entanglement and the destabilisation of structures of power, it is to the diminishing of local autonomy. Still, even in deeply unequal...

... rewards or merit occasioned by the monks' acceptance of their donations. Merit, thus, acquired becomes manifested in future spiritual and material prosperity as well as in social status and political power. The ritual exchanges that constitute a Buddhist economy of merit are performed in many contexts...

... antipathies in postsocialist Laos. The chapter then returns to the themes of sport, physical culture, and state power in Laos, reflecting on the evolving relationship between physicality and state power throughout the nation's history. Brunei Burma Myanmar development socio economic and developmentalism...

... that would remedy what were perceived to be the problems that surrounded it: materialism, Puritanism, the Frontier Mentality, alienation, lack of integration, and discontinuity between America's industrial power and the state of its culture. Influenced by the advent of psychoanalysis after Freud's visit...

... promote a more accurate, yet complex, understanding of migration. The book illuminates how patriarchal ideologies and institutional structures of inequality impose constraints on migrant women. It also emphasizes their agency and capacity to negotiate these forms of power, in contexts of family...

...In 1930, changes in the law meant that management of Wuxi City reverted back to the county government, but this only served to extend state power over urbanization. Public offices, sub-county administrative divisions in the city and the countryside, were responsible for implementing government...

.... This fluidity conditioned Tang China's international behavior, which demonstrated changeable patterns, from alternative use of soft power and hard power, to simultaneous use of both, to comprehensive power. The chapter also shows how the Tang and its neighbors all realized that competition and conflict were...

... struggle, resistance, advocacy, advancement, power, domination, and activism. It traces the racial history of the first eighty-five years of the Japanese American presence in Hawaiʻi from 1885 to 1970, with emphasis on the primacy of race in structuring Japanese Americans' social relations with others...

... minority of immigrant laborers to one of the most politically and socioeconomically powerful ethnic groups in the islands. The book has produced a racial history of Japanese Americans from their early struggles against oppressive working and living conditions on the sugar plantations to labor organizing...

...The beauty of the body and its capacity to generate erotic desire is inextricably linked to questions of power and politics. It is not possible to reach at this politics without taking seriously the centrality that the text accords to the aesthetics of robes and hair, and to the arts of poetry...

...This chapter explores how, in many ethnicities, words possess a spiritual power—a power by which people believed things could be called into life. This spiritual power was not just limited to the words of a God who would say “Let there be light” in order to bring light to this world; even the words...

... the Amerikanos moral economy neoliberalism “Filipino personality ” hard work inequality utang kabubut on animism religion moral economy discourses of development status quo power self-transformation Development, progress, and modernization have become “commonsense” meta-narratives through which...

...This concluding chapter reiterates that the circumstances in which the war broke out at Tiamou in April 1917 provided an opportunity to examine the place of fear, rumor, and violence in attempts to maintain colonial power relations. War was not the result of an innocent misunderstanding or mutual...

... to preserve the hometown community through nuclear power was a genuine motivation for some pronuclear lobbyists in Murotsu and Nagashima. However, the chapter contends that the antinuclear campaign also became a struggle about the nature of power and status in the 1980s hometown. The tactics of leading...

...This chapter examines the power and politics underlying the Fukushima nuclear disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. It argues that Fukushima was an envirotechnical disaster, a result of the convergence of natural and sociotechnical processes. It uses the concept of envirotechnical systems...

...This chapter discusses the religion of the Marshall Islands. There is one overarching concept that can link together Marshallese religious terms, the key myths, and the spirit world with human affairs: power. Marshallese myths and legends conceptualize power as a series of relationships...

...This chapter studies the Japanese mytheme of divine emperorship. As a rule, power becomes accepted only when sacralized. Indeed, rulership without religious sanction is power without legitimacy. It is not that some cultures sacralize authority and others don't; all do somehow and often in similar...

...This chapter examines fourth-century bce writings that address bodily conformism at a more universal level. Zhuangzi in particular spoke of spiritual attainment in terms of the relatively decentralized power of the Dao that might obtain in each individual, and not merely in leaders...

...This chapter discusses the internal political and ritual struggles of the Tenmu dynasty. In power struggles, usually around questions of succession, plotters engaged in black magic, witchcraft, and the manipulation of portents and supernatural signs, or were accused of having done so. Yin-yang...

... considers its power to discipline women to behave as “appropriately” feminine subjects. It begins with a discussion of Michel Foucault's notion of “panopticism” and Laura Mulvey's views regarding the way classical Hollywood cinema constructs the body of woman as object of the masculine gaze...