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Ghosts of the New City
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 …
Saving Buddhism
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 …
Embodied Nation
This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country’s extraordinary transitions—from …
Essential Trade
“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in B?n Thành market. “Naturally, it’s because he’s a man.” When the women …
Unconventional Sisterhood
Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, …
Familial Properties
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 …
Traces of Trauma
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 …
Siam's New Detectives
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 …
Projectland
In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the …
The Lost Territories
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 …
Cult, Culture, and Authority
Princess Li?u H?nh, 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 …
Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma
Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of …