Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 44 hakutulosta
States and Societies in Motion
With contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart …
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia
The historic electoral defeat suffered in 2018 by Barisan Nasional (BN), which had ruled Malaysia for over half a century since independence, raised high expectations for electoral …
Mongols From Country to City
Examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism …
Mythbusting Vietnam
Vietnam is studied and understood in myriad ways. Even so, much of this knowledge is framed by a limited number of dominant paradigms. The concern of this volume - which applies a …
Hearing Southeast Asia
There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of …
Kinship and Food in South East Asia
Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in …
Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism
Lanna Buddhism is a variant of Theravada Buddhism found in northern Thailand and neighbouring areas. A salient feature is the belief in charismatic monks. These monks and their (at …
Debating the East Asian Peace
East Asia (including Southeast Asia) used to be the world’s deadliest battleground but since the 1980s there has been a marked reduction in battle deaths. This ‘East Asian Peace’ …
From Tribalism to Nationalism
For many years, fieldwork was impossible in Laos due to the wars and then because of the overthrow of the royal power and the establishment of a revolutionary regime. Yet this …
War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar
In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin …
Ancestors in Borneo Societies
This first major study of ancestors in Borneo societies challenges classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship and genealogical understandings of ancestors in …
Khaki Capital: The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia
Although Southeast Asia has seen the emergence of civilian rule, the military continues to receive much of national budgets and, with significant assets and economic activities, …