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  • Dissociated Identities

    Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society

    by Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world. What the state's policies on culture and religion mean to Karo women and men, who now live in cities throughout Indonesia as well as in their Sumatran homeland, becomes clear only by looking at ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Siam's New Detectives

    Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand

    by Samson Lim, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Series Book 1 - Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
    Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, the book provides both an extended overview of the development ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Imperial Intoxication

    Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

    by Gerard Sasges, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state’s deeply unpopular alcohol ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Forging Islamic Power and Place

    The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ‘Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia

    by Francis R. Bradley, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Series series Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
    Forging Islamic Power and Place charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh Dā’ūd bin ‘Abd Allāh al-Faṭānī regrouped in ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Uprooted

    Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980

    by Christina Elizabeth Firpo, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Series Book 30 - Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
    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 the birth was the result of rape—the father had left the child in the mother's care. Although the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Familial Properties

    Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778

    by Nhung Tuyet Tran, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Series Book 6 - Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
    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 advantage. Women succeeded in taking pragmatic advantage of socioeconomic turmoil during a time of war and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • In Pursuit of Progress

    Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

    by Hannah C. M. Bulloch, David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp ...
    Series Book 12 - Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
    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” metaphor ordering global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    Series series The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousness over ... Read more

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  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
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  • Young and Malay: Growing Up in Multicultural Malaysia

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    "This excellent volume, edited by Ooi Kee Beng and Wan Hamidi Hamid, discusses what it means to be Malay in Malaysia. And in doing that, it seeks to be much more..Being a Malay is about expressing the cultural interactions and assimilations that undeniably take place among the various ethnie that inhabit and have inhabited Malaysia. It is not only about being Malay, or being Malaysian. It is about ... Read more

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  • Malayland

    by Dina Zaman ...
    What does it mean to be Malay in the 21st century? Especially in a country like Malaysia where identity politics is questioned on an almost daily basis, and policed by the state. 16 years later after the publication of I Am Muslim, Dina Zaman returns to write a memoir, writing about what it means to be Malay, and Muslim in the 21st century.The writer embarked on Malayland during the Covid pandemic ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia

    by Charles E. Farhadian ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to ... Read more

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