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Author:   Kathleen M. Adams ,  Kathleen A. Gillogly
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780253356376

ISBN 10:   0253356377
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   18 July 2011
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments 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"

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With this volume, introducing students to the study of Southeast Asia has just become easier. Adams and Gillogly have assembled a wide-ranging collection of accessible and engaging articles about the region-all of which promise to work well in the classroom. I look forward to using it! -Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College Wonderfully comprehensive yet vividly well-written.... If I were asked to recommend one book that captures the cultural legacies and emergent complexity of today's Southeast Asia, this gracious and dazzling book would be it. -Robert W. Hefner, Boston University

<p> With this volume, introducing students to the study of Southeast Asia has just become easier. Adams and Gillogly have assembled a wide-ranging collection of accessible and engaging articles about the region--all of which promise to work well in the classroom. I look forward to using it! --Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College--Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College

<p> With this volume, introducing students to the study of Southeast Asiahas just become easier. Adams and Gillogly have assembled a wide-ranging collectionof accessible and engaging articles about the regionall of whichpromise to work well in the classroom. I look forward to using it! -- NancyEberhardt, Knox College--Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College

""Wonderfully comprehensive yet vividly well-written.... If I were asked to recommend one book that captures the cultural legacies and emergent complexity of today's Southeast Asia, this gracious and dazzling book would be it."" —Robert W. Hefner, Boston University ""With this volume, introducing students to the study of Southeast Asia has just become easier. Adams and Gillogly have assembled a wide-ranging collection of accessible and engaging articles about the region—all of which promise to work well in the classroom. I look forward to using it!"" —Nancy Eberhardt, Knox College

Author Information

Kathleen M. Adams is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of Art as Power: Recrafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia and editor (with Sara Dickey) of Home and Hegemony: Domestic Work and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Kathleen A. Gillogly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

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