Words in motion : toward a global lexicon / edited by Carol Gl uck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2009.Description: 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780822345367 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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306.44 22

Contents:

Words in motion / Carol Gluck -- Worlds in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Seguranðca/security in Brazil and the United States / Itty Abr aham -- Adat/indigenous : indigeneity in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- 'Ada/custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia / Mona Abaza -- S ekinin/responsibility in modern Japan / Carol Gluck -- 'Ilmaniyya, la èicitâe, secularisme/secularism in Morocco / Driss Maghraoui -- Saburai mu/sublime : a Japanese word and its political afterlife / Alan Tansman -- 'Aqalliyya/minority in modern Egyptian discourse / Seteney Shami -- òHijåab/headscarf : a political journey / Claudia Koonz -- Injury : in criminating words and imperial power / Lydia H. Liu -- Conjuracion/cons piracy in the Philippine revolution of 1896 / Vicente L. Rafael -- Terr orism : state sovereignty and militant politics in India / Partha Chatt erjee -- Komisyon/commission and kurul/board : words that rule / Huri I slamoglu -- Chumchon/community in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds -- Thamm arat/good governance in glocalizing Thailand / Kasian Tejapira.

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