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The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Series Editor: V. Terry King, Michael Hitchcock

The books in this series incorporate basic ethnographic description into a wider context of responses to development, globalisation and change. Each book embraces broadly the same concerns, but the emphasis in each differs as authors choose to concentrate on specific dimensions of change or work out particular conceptual approaches to the issues of development. Areas of concern include: nation-building, technological innovations in agriculture, rural-urban migration, the expansion of industrial and commercial employment, the rapid increase in cultural and ethnic tourism, the consequences of deforestation and environmental degradation, the 'modernisation of tradition', ethnic identity and conflict, and the religious transformation of society.

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The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

By Ben Wallace

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia

The inalienable gift of territory

By Cynthia Chou

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...

Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

Edited by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long, Lee Wilson

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works...

Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
Modernity and Malaysia

Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads

By Alberto Gomes

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities. Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000...

Published August 14th 2010 by Routledge
The Changing World of Bali

Religion, Society and Tourism

By Leo Howe

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’....

Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

An Introduction

By Victor King, William D. Wilder

Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and...

Published November 13th 2002 by Routledge