The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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 August 30th 2005 by Routledge
6. 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