An Introduction to Feng Shui (Introduction to Religion)

Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and millions of users. In this book Ole Bruun explains Feng Shui's Chinese origins and meanings as well as its more recent Western interpretations and global appeal. Unlike the abundance of popular manuals, his Introduction treats Chinese Feng Shui as an academic subject, bridging religion, history and sociology. Individual chapters explain the Chinese religious-philosophical background, Chinese uses in rural and urban areas, the history of Feng Shui's reinterpretation in the West, and environmental perspectives and other issues.

Religion & Spirituality

Bruun, Ole

Buddhism

Cambridge University Press

This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.

Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 18)

Kalland, Arne

Reference

Routledge

This highly acclaimed, 'bold and refreshing' collection of essays takes a critical look at Asians' perception of their natural environments as well as at Western views of Asia in this respect.

Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

Squeezed between powerful neighbours, for decades Mongolia played the role of buffer state. Its full independence in 1990 offered new opportunities for both economic growth and the restoration of Mongolian identity. But with a huge land area, poor infrastructure and a small population, the new republic is highly vulnerable and also dependent on international support.This book provides easily accessible information for developers, planners, consultants, scholars, students and others with an interest in contemporary Mongolia. Prefaced by a general overview of the land and society, its chapters, all written by international experts, cover a wide range of topics, including foreign policy, domestic politics, local government structure, living standards and poverty, women in society, grassland management, the common herding household, and science and technology policy. A comprehensive bibliography is provided.

Mongolia in Transition: Old Patterns, New Challenges (NIAS)

Business & Money

Odgaard, Ole

Economics

Mongolia in Transition (NIAS)

History

Asia

The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast Asian countries. On the national arenas, Asian values are linked to the struggle between authoritarian and democratic forces, which both tend to convey stereotyped images of the 'west', but with reversed meanings.

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Democracy in Asia)

Jacobsen, Michael

The Asian challenge to the universality of human rights has sparked off intense debate. This volume takes a clear stand for universal rights, both theoretically and empirically, by analysing social and political processes in a number of East and Southeast

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies: Studies in Asian Topics)

Ole Bruun focuses on a community of nomadic livestock herders in present-day Mongolia. He depicts their transition from a contained, Soviet-era collective to modern times and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued survival and prosperity in the age of the market: the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention. By studying the nomadic practice of animal husbandry in the context of family farms, Bruun points out the similarity to the peasant economy defined by the Russian agricultural economist Alexander Chayanov nearly a century ago. In both economies, the labor-consumer balance and life-cycle variations commonly set the term for economic strategies, yet the pastoral economy involves a highly specialized form of agriculture in which the scale of exchange determines wealth and lifestyle. In a vast territory such as Mongolia, infrastructure, social benefits, and other means of state support are crucial to prevent herders from sliding into a subsistence orientation, eventually leading to poverty.

Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (AsiaWorld)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Lexington Books

Ole Bruun focuses on a community of nomadic livestock herders in present-day Mongolia. He depicts their transition from a contained, Soviet-era collective to modern times and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued survival and prosperity in the age of the market: the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention. By studying the nomadic practice of animal husbandry in the context of family farms, Bruun points out the similarity to the peasant economy defined by the Russian agricultural economist Alexander Chayanov nearly a century ago. In both economies, the labor-consumer balance and life-cycle variations commonly set the term for economic strategies, yet the pastoral economy involves a highly specialized form of agriculture in which the scale of exchange determines wealth and lifestyle. In a vast territory such as Mongolia, infrastructure, social benefits, and other means of state support are crucial to prevent herders from sliding into a subsistence orientation, eventually leading to poverty.

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An Introduction to Feng Shui (Introduction to Religion)

An Introduction to Feng Shui (Introduction to Religion)

Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 18)

Asian Perceptions of Nature: A Critical Approach (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

Mongolia in Transition: Old Patterns, New Challenges (NIAS)

Mongolia in Transition (NIAS)

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Democracy in Asia)

Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies: Studies in Asian Topics)

Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (AsiaWorld)

Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (AsiaWorld)