Bewitching Women, Pious Men

Bewitching Women, Pious Men
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0520088611
ISBN-13 : 9780520088610
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Download or read book Bewitching Women, Pious Men written by Aihwa Ong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection presents new ethnographic research, framed in terms of new theoretical developments, and contains fine scholarship and lively writing."—Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California "This is a wonderful collection of essays. At one level they tell us about the transformation and often painful fragmentation of gendered selves in post-colonial states and a speeded-up transnational world. At another level they display the continuing power of ethnography to surprise and move us."—Sherry Ortner, University of California, Berkeley


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