Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion

   1. Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion

      • Kathryn Robinson

      Pages 1-15

3. Representation, Self-recognition and Self-discovery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. ‘Self’ and ‘Subject’ in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age

      • Tony Day

      Pages 19-36

   3. Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere

      • Kenneth M. George

      Pages 37-59

   4. Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction

      • Kirin Narayan

      Pages 60-76

   5. Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto

      • C. Turner

      Pages 77-99

4. Religion, Cosmopolitanism and Subjectification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Billy Graham in the South Seas

      • Richard Eves

      Pages 103-127

   3. A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea

      • Alison Dundon

      Pages 128-144

   4. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis

      • Pnina Werbner

      Pages 145-165

5. Identity and Displacement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia

      • Melani Budianta

      Pages 169-189

   3. Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration

      • Deirdre McKay

      Pages 190-208

   4. Transporting Culture Across Borders — the Hmong

      • Nicholas Tapp

      Pages 209-229

6. Back Matter

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This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively questioning the novelty of the 'global age' in this region.

• culture
• identity
• migration
• Nation
• religion
• social justice

• Australian National University, Australia

  Kathryn Robinson

MELANI BUDIANTA is an Indonesian activist and cultural studies scholar from the University of Indonesia. TONY DAY is Visiting Fellow, National Humanities Centre, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Senior Associate, Carolina Asia Center of the UNC- Chapel Hill, USA ALISON DUNDON is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, Australia RICHARD EVES is Australian Research Council QEII Fellow, Gender Relations Centre, Australian National University, Australia KENNETH M. GEORGE is Professor of Anthropology and a specialist on Indonesia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA DEIRDRE MCKAY is Research Fellow, Department of Human Geography, Australian National University, Australia KIRIN NARAYAN is Professor of Anthropology and Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA NICHOLAS TAPP is Professor of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia CAROLINE TURNER is an Art Historian and Curator, and Deputy Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia. PNINA WERBNER is Professor of Anthropology, Keele University, UK and co-editor of the Postcolonial Encounters Series

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