A Clash of Civilizations? Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Chinese-American mother and law professor at Yale, Amy Chua recently created a storm of controversy when she published her book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin, 2011). A memoir of her experiences raising her children in the United States generated a [...]
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A Clash of Civilizations? Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Book Reviews on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ajantha Subramanian’s Shorelines is a must read!
Posted in Bernardo Michael, Book Reviews on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Ajantha Subramanian’s Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). An enjoyable read indeed. Subramanian who is the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University has produced a fascinating and thought provoking work on fisher communities, territoriality, and rights in Kanyakumari [...]
