Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 1998"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the political aspects of Islamic parties in Jombang, East Java, during the controversy arising out of the defection of the leader of the Tarekat Qadiriyah Wa Naqsyabandiyah, an Islamic order, prior to the 1977 general election.

TL;DR: In this article, women incorporate their labour in the family businesses owned by their husbands, and the enhancement of economic and social status resulting from their incorporation also provides a strong incentive for their continued cooperation.

TL;DR: The Temarok buayo remains a context where the traditionally intimate relationship between the crocodile and Dusuns is still celebrated as discussed by the authors, which has remained immune to the impact of Islam among its performers to date.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the scientific and technical literature on rapeseed since 1949 and identified the relationship between agricultural research activities and major political and economic transitions in China, finding that rapeseed has played an important role in the agriculture of the PRC for millennia as a source of edible oil, industrial products, organic fertilizer and animal feed.

TL;DR: In this article, women lay practitioners of Buddhism known as mae chii are increasingly undertaking social roles which are similar and, in some cases, complementary to those of the monks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the poison gas explosion at the Union Carbide pesticide plant at Bhopal can be read as the concealing of the "real" nature of the technology of the so-called "Green Revolution" in India's agricultural modernization programme.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how the mobility inequality of the disadvantaged is negatively influenced by urban socioeconomic and land-use development in Hong Kong and concluded that mobility inequality is due to the negative influences of socio economic and land use policies and developments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development process of "overlapping development models for basic research project management" in Japan during the years 1970-95 was described, and the implications of these management systems for the future development of Japan's technology policy, which includes not just critical technologies, but also the management of the research process.

TL;DR: This paper argued that anthropological theory necessarily panders to human existence as such, exoticizing it into a type of "counter-culture" and argued that in exploring anthropological theorizing on Bali, theory needs an indissolvable core of the all-toohuman reality.