Bøger af Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

Examines the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews, this vivid, well-crafted ethnography is full of insights into the real-life struggles of young Muslims.

In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This title presents the story of that passage, the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity.