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The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The inalienable gift ...

The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The inalienable gift ...

Cynthia Chou

The inalienable gift of territory Cynthia Chou ... Cynthia Chou discusses how Indonesiannationbuilding development programmes have generated intense struggles between theseafarers and theIndonesian policy makers over issues ...
Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast ...

Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast ...

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Wee, Viviene, and Cynthia Chou. 1997. “Continuity and Discontinuity in the Multiple Realities of Riau.” In Cynthia Chou and Wil Derks, eds., Riau in Transition, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 153, no. 4: 527–41. Wilson, Thomas ...
History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

O. W. Wolters

6 Cynthia Chou and Will Derks, eds., "Riau in Transition," Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 153,4 (1997): 475. Also see Vivienne Wee and Cynthia Chou, "Continuity and Discontinuity in the Multiple Realities of Riau," ibid., pp.
Cynthia Ann Parker: Comanche Captive

Cynthia Ann Parker: Comanche Captive

Tracie Egan

Colonel Isaac Parker, an uncle, arrived to claim Cynthia, but she remembered very little English. But Cynthia recognized her name when she heard it. "Me Cynthia," she said. Cynthia andTopsannah were then taken back to Texas to be with the ...
Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy

Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy

Mark Chou

(2007), 'The breakthrough of demokratia inmidfifth centuryAthens', in KurtA. Raaflaub, Josiah Oberand RobertW. Wallace(withPaul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar), Origins of Democracyin Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press.
Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions

Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions

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INTRODUCTION Cynthia Chou and Vincent Houben Southeast Asian studies today is being reconfigured. Its intellectual landscape has been grafted with many new and exciting developments over the last century. Publications on the region ...
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

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Susanne Kerner, Cynthia Chou, Morten Warmind. Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY  ...
Democracy Against Itself: Sustaining an Unsustainable Idea

Democracy Against Itself: Sustaining an Unsustainable Idea

Mark Chou

Using the collapse of democracy in ancient Athens and the Weimar Republic, as well as the uncertain fate of democratic rule in the United States and China today as illustrative examples, Mark Chou examines the conditions and characteristics ...
The role of the chou ("clown") in traditional Chinese drama: ...

The role of the chou ("clown") in traditional Chinese drama: ...

Ashley Thorpe

This is the first Western language book to examine the chou ("clown") role-type in traditional Chinese drama--a role-type credited with so much importance that some critics insist that "without the chou, there would not be drama.
Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: ...

Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: ...

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“Contesting the Tenure ofTerritoriality: The Orang Suku Laut”. In Riau in Transition, Bijdragen tot de Yizal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 153, no. 4, edited by Cynthia Chou and Will Derks. Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ...
Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant

Alice B. McGinty

Cynthia in a tin tub, and warmed her up afterward with hot cocoa. Cynthia was well fed and protected. She felt rich with what she had. When Cynthia's cousins, Peter and Betty, ages seven and nine, came to live with the Rylant family for a year ...
Indonesian Sea Nomads: Money, Magic and Fear of the Orang ...

Indonesian Sea Nomads: Money, Magic and Fear of the Orang ...

Cynthia Chou

Bijdragen Tot de Taal, Landen Volkenkunde 153, pp. 483–508. Andaya, Barbara Watson and Leonard Y.Andaya (1982)A History Malaysia. London: Macmillan Press. Andaya, LeonardY. (1975a) 'The StructureofPower in Seventeenth Century ...
Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural ...

Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural ...

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14 TRIBALITY AND GLOBALIZATION The Orang Suku Laut and the “Growth Triangle” in a Contested Environment Cynthia Chou and Vivienne Wee1 RIAU AND THE “GROWTH TRIANGLE” The Orang Suku Laut (Tribe of Sea People) are  ...
Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

Tony O'Dempsey

Environmental Histories of Singapore Tony O'Dempsey, Mark Emmanuel, John van Wyhe, Nigel P. Taylor, Fiona L.P. Tan, Cynthia Chou, Goh Hong Yi, Corinne Heng Timothy P. Barnard ...
Yüan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School

Yüan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School

Chih-P'ing Chou

Chih-P'ing Chou. Yuan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School Chih-P'ingChou Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions General Editors Front Cover.
Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, ex recensione Joannis ...

Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, ex recensione Joannis ...

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Scribam igitur, quod non unqüam tua deleatætas, ` Cynthia forma potens, Cynthia verba levis. | axor perjwriis debilitata. Horatlus: Credemihi, quamvis contemnas murmura famiæ, Hic tibi pallori Cynthia verfus. Itiare, leve eft. J. S c A L I G E R.
My Family

My Family

Dr. Cynthia Thomas

Dr. Cynthia Thomas. Copyright © 2016 by Dr. Cynthia Thomas. 738045 ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5144-7466-2 EBook 978-1-5144-7465-5 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, ...
Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance ...

Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance ...

Cynthia L. Selfe

Selfe, Cynthia L. 1999. “Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention.” College Composition and Communication 50(3): 411–36. Selfe, Cynthia L., and S. Hilligoss. 1994. Literacy and Computers: The Complications ...
A Cynthia Ozick Reader

A Cynthia Ozick Reader

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick, Elaine Mozer Kauvar. Virility. You are too young to remember Edmund Gate, but I knew him when he was Elia Gatoff in knickers, just off the boat from Liverpool. Now to remember Edmund Gate at all, one must be a compatriot of ...
Microbiology

Microbiology

Cynthia Nau Cornelissen

Cynthia Nau Cornelissen, Richard A. Harvey, Bruce D. Fisher. Series Eilii'l'fll'i Hlllustrated Review-s Richard A. Halrve'g" Microbiflogy THIRD EDITION Richard A' HHI'H'E'F Cynthia Nau finmellissen Bruce D.' Fisher “it. Walters Pi'luwer Lip-_ ...
Cynthia

Cynthia

Leila Prince Golding

Shattered when her boyfriend marries someone else, Cynthia takes a job as a forest-fire watcher where, instead of finding refuge, she finds danger and love with a fellow Christian.
Cynthia

Cynthia

Leila Prince Golding

Shattered when her boyfriend marries someone else, Cynthia takes a job as a forest-fire watcher where, instead of finding refuge, she finds danger and love with a fellow Christian.
Every Living Thing

Every Living Thing

Cynthia Rylant

Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant.
Death at Devil's Bridge

Death at Devil's Bridge

Cynthia DeFelice

Should he tell on Donny? In Cynthia DeFelice's exciting new adventure novel, the hero faces up to his own weakness and struggles to decide what to do about his friend.
Meet Me at the Lockers

Meet Me at the Lockers

Derek Hinkle

Cynthia Buckley pleaded for her life. I am not going to lie I loved a good laugh every now and then. However, Cynthia was lying through her teeth. We were a few weeks into the new school year and somehow I' d managed to survive the Jill  ...
Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women ...

Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women ...

Cynthia Enloe

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously?
Killing Cynthia Ann

Killing Cynthia Ann

Charles Brashear

Much has been written about Cynthia AnnParker,for she wasalegendinherown time, and much of it is still available in various archives:The PanhandlePlains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, at the head of the Palo Duro Canyon she so  ...

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