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Book SynopsisThe peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia
Trade ReviewThe pages [of Everyday Life in Southeast Asia] are packed with useful insight that can infuse the travelers [sic] journey (particularly if they explore areas off the beaten track) with an enlightening understanding of deeply rooted traditions still practiced throughout South East Asia. . . . [I]t is highly readable in both a casual and on-the-go context, and contains facts that will challenge the reader to re-assess their own cultural practices and observe those of others in a new light.
* ExpatGoMalaysia.com *
This book offers an exceedingly rich conucopia of stories, themes, and analytical insights into contemporary southeast Asia. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read. Many edited collections in the social sciences aim ar at least claim to appeal to an audience beyond specialists. Everyday Life in Southeast Asia is one of the rare collections compiled and written by academics that should indeed speak to a broad audience as an introduction to the societies and peoples of one of the world's most richly diverse regions. Specialists, too, will take pleasure and find insights in this book.
* Sojourn *
One of the main contributions of this volume is its ability to unite extremely disparate topics under clearly defined theoretical themes. As such, it makes a wonderful textbook, not just for anthropology students, but also for those taking courses in the sociology, history and politics of South East Asia.
* South East Asia Research *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Maps
Introduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday Life
Part 1. Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities
1. Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect / Lorraine V. Aragon
2. Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective / Andrew Causey
3. Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos / Holly High
4. A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia / Judith Nagata
Part 2. Family, Households, and Livelihoods
5. Maling: A Hanunóo Girl from the Philippines / Harold C. Conklin
6. Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly
7. Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order / Lucien M. Hanks, Jr.
Part 3. Crafting the Nation-State
8. Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand / Hjorleifur Jonsson
9. Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore / John Clammer
10. Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
Part 4. World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity
11. The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington
12. Javanese Women and the Veil / Nancy Smith-Hefner
13. Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele
Part 5. Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment
14. Cultivating "Community" in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace / Kathleen M. Adams
15. The Fall of Thai Rocky / Pattana Kitiarsa
16. Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun / Sandra Cate
17. Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam / Nir Avieli
Part 6. War and Recovery
18. Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney
19. Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism / Elizabeth G. Traube
20. The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge / Eve Monique Zucker
Part 7. Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations
21. When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home / Chris Lyttleton
22. "They Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What To Do": Schooling Malaysian Indigenes / Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo
23. Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia's Borderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons
24. Just below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll / Gene Ammarell
References
Selected Film Resources
Contributors
Index
