Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory – serie
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44 produkter
Saving Buddhism
The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Av Alicia Turner, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sasana, the life of the Buddha’s …
Binding Tie
Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore
Inbunden, 2009
695 kr
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Since gaining independence in 1965, Singapore has become the most trade-intensive economy in the world and the richest country in Southeast Asia. This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparities of education or changes in …
Anxieties of Mobility
Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands
Häftad, 2008
286 kr
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Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and …
In Buddha's Company
Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War
Häftad, 2010
266 kr
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In Buddha’s Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Thailand sent nearly 40,000 volunteer soldiers to South Vietnam to serve alongside the Free World Forces …
Natural Potency and Political Power
Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
Av Sarinda Singh, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
509 kr
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How to Behave
Buddhism and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia, 1860-1930
Häftad, 2011
300 kr
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A cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia that offers an understanding of the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Perfect Business?
Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Av Sverre Molland, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2012
695 kr
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For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organisations and governments commonly …
Potent Landscapes
Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Av Catherine Allerton, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2013
627 kr
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far …
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia
Av L. Ayu Saraswati, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2013
599 kr
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a …
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia
Av L. Ayu Saraswati, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
272 kr
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a …
Potent Landscapes
Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Av Catherine Allerton, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
272 kr
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
611 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media fi gures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the …
Ghosts of the New City
Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai
Av Andrew Alan Johnson, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2014
627 kr
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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In …
Ghosts of the New City
Spirits, Urbanity, and the Runs of Progress in Chiang Mai
Av Andrew Alan Johnson, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
285 kr
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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In …
Essential Trade
Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
Av Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P. Chandler
Inbunden, 2014
627 kr
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“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Bȇn Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped …
Essential Trade
Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
Av Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
272 kr
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“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Bȇn Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City’s iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
927 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
900 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
In Pursuit of Progress
Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
Av Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
272 kr
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How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people’s identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people’s histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a “Western” …
Uprooted
Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
Av Christina Elizabeth Firpo, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
309 kr
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For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. In many cases, and for a wide range of reasons—death, divorce, the end of a romance, a return to France, or because …
Caged in on the Outside
Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Av Gregory M. Simon, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon’s book, based on …
Familial Properties
Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778
Av Nhung Tuyet Tran, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
309 kr
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Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own …
Traces of Trauma
Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide
Av Boreth Ly, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
352 kr
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and …
Lost Territories
Thailand's History of National Humiliation
Av Shane Strate, David P. Chandler m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
309 kr
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It is a cherished belief among Thai people that their country was never colonized. Yet politicians, scholars, and other media figures chronically inveigh against Western colonialism and the imperialist theft of Thai territory. Thai historians insist that the country adapted to the Western-dominated …
Cult, Culture, and Authority
Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History
Av Olga Dror
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess’s cult has since transcended its geographical and …
Tay So'n Uprising
Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-century Vietnam
Inbunden, 2006
654 kr
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The Tay So'n uprising (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This groundbreaking book offers a new look at an important and controversial era. George Dutton follows three brothers from the hamlet of Tay So'n as …
Spreading the Dhamma
Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand
Inbunden, 2006
621 kr
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How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. …
Khmer Women on the Move
Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia
Inbunden, 2008
691 kr
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Khmer Women on the Move offers a fascinating ethnography of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. Female migration and urban employment are rising, triggered by Cambodia's transition from a closed socialist system to an open market …
Print and Power
Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam
Häftad, 2008
280 kr
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In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in …
