Download or read book Beyond the Apsara written by Stephanie Burridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates and documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the infamous Pol Pot regime. It honours the remarkable commitment of the few remaining masters of the art of dance who are reviving and preserving the famous classical dances, as well as the courage and resolution of young artists who are imaginatively pursuing their passion to forge new paths in contemporary dance. n 2003, Cambodian classical dance was awarded world heritage status by UNESCO – this confirmed the importance, and perhaps the burden, of the task of preservation. This volume includes contributions from the royal family, eminent writers and commentators and the dancers themselves. Monuments and reminders of the Killing Fields abound in the city of Phnom Penh. Nearly 2 million Cambodians, including many artists, perished during the killings or died of starvation and disease during the Khmer Rouge years. Today, the dancers, both young and old, move towards the future while respecting and honouring the past. This volume documents their journey.
Download or read book World Heritage Angkor and Beyond written by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodiais one of the world's most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands oftourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO WorldHeritage Sites, every year. Since its UNESCO listing in 1992, the Angkor regionhas experienced an overwhelming mushrooming of hotels and restaurants; theinfrastructure has been hardly able to cope with the rapid growth of mass tourismand its needs. This applies to the access and use of monument sites as well. The authors of this book critically describe and analyse the heritage nominationprocesses in Cambodia, especially in the case of Angkor and the temple ofPreah Vihear on the Cambodian/Thai border. They examine the implications theUNESCO listings have had with regard to the management of Angkor Park andits inhabitants on the one hand, and to the Cambodian/Thai relationships on theother. Furthermore, they address issues of development through tourism thatUNESCO has recognised as a welcome side-effect of heritage listings. They raisethe question whether development through tourism deepens already existinginequalities rather than contributing to the promotion of the poor"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Beyond All Bonds A Revelation written by Dr. Aiswarya Ravikrishnan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apsara Valsan settles down in her hard-won seat in a prestigious medical college, little knowing that life as she knew it was going to be turned upside down in totally unexpected ways. Unforseeable, indeed unimaginable things begin to happen to her. She is led to question what she knew about herself and her family. Total strangers seem to know secrets about her which even she did not know, and put her through tests and trials that bring out the deepest powers in her psyche, making her realize ancient and powerful gifts she posessed.This is a story of student life in a medical college, where young medico Apsara confronts startling truths about herself, and is forced to go beyond the safe boundaries of her life and into a mysterious world of dark strangers and unleash potent, magical powers from within her deepest self.
Download or read book Pillaging Cambodia written by Masha Lafont and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illicit traffic of art is an important problem that affects modern life all over the world. This work addresses the issue using the showcase of Cambodia, where looters systematically destroy cultural heritage. Beginning with an overview of Cambodian history and culture, it explores every aspect of the illicit traffic of Cambodian art. It analyzes the history, size, and structure of art trafficking in Cambodia, its growth and profit margins, and the participants and international crime syndicate involved. It also describes the "demand" side of the story: antique dealers, collectors, auction houses, and museums. The work deals with the impact of the illicit trafficking on the legal, political, and economic systems of Cambodia, as well as its effect on archeological, historical, and religious values and the cultural identity of the nation. The work also analyzes the current long-term and short-term policies proposed by the Cambodian government and suggests policy alternatives that may be implemented by the Cambodian authorities. An appendix includes the description of all cases of the restitution of objects of Khmer art.
Download or read book Beyond the Killing Fields written by Usha Welaratna and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned how the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into killing fields. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of Cambodians fled their homeland. This book presents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine first-person narratives of men, women and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.
Download or read book Inter Asia in Motion written by Emily Wilcox and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground “East-West” relationships, each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences, as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural, geographical, and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers’ understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia, with a focus on dance circulations in and across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics, History, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
Download or read book Bhabha and His Magnificent Obsessions written by Ganesan Venkataraman and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and work of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 1909-1966, Indian physicist.
Download or read book Lonely Planet Estonia Latvia Lithuania written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Soak up history in Estonia's Old Towns, enjoy a midsummer bonfire and beer in Lithuania and take a traditional sauna and spa in Latvia; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania and begin your journey now! Inside the Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, landscape, architecture, greetings, etiquette Over 70 maps Covers Estonia, Tallinn, Lahemaa National Park, Rakvere, Narva, Tartu, Valga, Muhu, Saaremaa, Helsinki, Latvia, R?ga, Kurzeme, J?rmala, Kemeri National Park, Talsi, Lithuania, Vilnius, Paneriai, Trakai, Kalingrad and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, our most comprehensive guide to the region, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet Eastern Europe for a comprehensive look at all these countries have to offer Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards winner in Favorite Travel Guide category for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Download or read book Re Enacting the Past written by Mads Daugbjerg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture and are of growing importance to heritage studies. As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms: from the annual ‘Viking Moot’ festival in Denmark drawing thousands of participants and spectators, to the (re)staged war photography of An-My Lê, to the Titanic Memorial Cruise commemorating the centennial of the ill-fated voyage, to the symbolic retracing of the Berlin Wall across the city on 9 November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of its toppling. Re-enactments involve the sensuousness of bodily experience and engagement, the exhilarating yet precarious combination of imagination with ‘historical fact’, in-the-moment negotiations between and within temporalities, and the compelling drive to re-make, or re-presence, the past. As such, re-enactments present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Download or read book Managing Cultural Landscapes written by Ken Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With these came a challenge to the 1960s and 1970s concept of heritage concentrating on great monuments and archaeological locations, famous architectural ensembles, or historic sites with connections to the rich and famous. Managing Cultural Landscapes explores the latest thought in landscape and place by: airing critical discussion of key issues in cultural landscapes through accessible accounts of how the concept of cultural landscape applies in diverse contexts across the globe and is inextricably tied to notions of living history where landscape itself is a rich social history record widening the notion that landscape only involves rural settings to embrace historic urban landscapes/townscapes examining critical issues of identity, maintenance of traditional skills and knowledge bases in the face of globalization, and new technologies fostering international debate with interdisciplinary appeal to provide a critical text for academics, students, practitioners, and informed community organizations discussing how the cultural landscape concept can be a useful management tool relative to current issues and challenges. With contributions from an international group of authors, Managing Cultural Landscapes provides an examination of the management of heritage values of cultural landscapes from Australia, Japan, China, USA, Canada, Thailand, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, India and the Philippines; it reviews critically the factors behind the removal of Dresden and its cultural landscape from World Heritage listing and gives an overview of Historic Urban Landscape thinking.
Download or read book Women s Political Participation and Representation in Asia written by Kazuki Iwanaga and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.
Download or read book Indian Fiction in English written by Pramod Kumar Singh and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Brings Together A Collection Of Scholarly Papers On Different Issues Of Indian Fiction In English. It Makes An Intensive Study Of The Works Of The Novelists Who Have Helped In Shaping Indian English Fiction And Earned Reputation As Literary Jewels Of The World: Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, R.P. Jhabvala, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, B. Rajan, Shashi Deshpande, Khushwant Singh, Raj Kamal Jha And Arundhati Roy. The Research Papers, Written By Eminent Scholars, Reflect Their Critical Vitality And Interpretative Acumen. The Book Deepens The Existing Critical Responses And Also Explores The Unlit Corner Of Indo-English Fiction.
Download or read book Beyond Postmodernism written by Klaus Stierstorfer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.
Download or read book Two Nights in Police Custody written by Uttam Raj Regmi and published by Tenth Street Press. This book was released on 2013-05-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Nights In Police Custody is much more than a story of modern Nepal's social injustice; it's a seizing read describing daily life in the cities and its surrounds and recounts the struggles of the people, the class divide, and interprets the fabric that has united all Nepalese through their political upheaval of the 1980's that still continues on into this day.
Download or read book Beyond Black Waters written by Jogindar Pāl and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has Political And Economic Transformation Helped To Bring Two Worlds Closer, Or Do The Black Waters Still Separate Us Like The Passage Of Death? Beyond Black Waters, The English Translation Of Joginder Paul S Acclaimed Urdu Novel Paar Pare, Revolves Around The Community Of People Who Were Excommunicated To Kala Pani, The Andaman Islands, During British Rule For Alleged Crimes Like Theft, Murder, Political Dissent And Activism. Baba Lalu Gaura And Others Exiled To The Island Decide To Stay Back On The Completion Of Their Sentence. They Put Down Roots And Build Homes, Forging A New Life, Creating A New Society. In Spite Of Their Painful Past, They Are Progressive, Enthusiastic And Sympathetic To Others, Setting An Example Of Humanism And Religious Harmony. But, Unfortunately, The Poison Of Religious Intolerance Manages To Make Inroads Into Their World, And Baba Lalu S Family Is Engulfed By It. His Innocent Son Is Framed By Anti-Social Elements And, Ironically, Sent To Jail In Bombay, On The Mainland. Going Beyond The Period It Is Set In, Beyond Black Waters Highlights The Terrorism Of Hatred And Intolerance Which Is Bent On Destroying Human Values, Forcing Us To Question The Sources Of Social And Political Power, And The Creation And Possible Destruction Of Societal Norms.
Download or read book Post Conflict Heritage Postcolonial Tourism written by Tim Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together a political analysis of heritage policies with an understanding of tourism as a series of intersecting cultural economies, this book explores a decade of world heritage and tourism in Angkor.
Download or read book Defence Beyond Design written by Sitakanta Mishra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scrutinises the realm of safety-security involving ‘nuclear power’ within the context of India’s tryst with nuclear energy. Relying on open source information, it examines the efficacy of the safety-security arrangement in and around India’s nuclear installations, keeping in mind the international best practices. As India has embarked on a civil nuclear expansion programme, the public concern for safety and security of nuclear facilities and material is obvious, especially in the backdrop of terrorist incidents and the Fukushima disaster. This poses a serious challenge to garnering greater domestic support for new nuclear projects with international collaborations. Here an attempt is made to examine the issues involving social acceptance of nuclear energy, safe disposal of nuclear waste, regulatory practices, and likely challenges ahead for India, to propose a new nuclear safety-security paradigm by looking beyond the usual ‘defence by design’ or ‘defence in-depth’ practice. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
