Asian Cultural Traditions, Second Edition

Carolyn Brown Heinz, Jeremy A. Murray, "Asian Cultural Traditions, Second Edition"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1478636203 | PDF | pages: 529 | 125.1 mb
The Second Edition of Asian Cultural Traditions expands our understanding of the bewildering diversity that has existed and continues to exist in the cultures of South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. In a single volume, the authors pull together some of the major cultural strands by which people in Asian societies have organized their collective life and made their lives meaningful. With new sections on Central Asia, Islam, Korea, and Insular Southeast Asia, this first survey of its kind draws on multiple disciplines to contextualize the interplay of culture, historical events, language, and geography to promote better understanding of a realm often misunderstood by Westerners.