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Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia: Case Studies, Comparisons, Critique book cover

1st Edition

Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia Case Studies, Comparisons, Critique

Edited By Hjorleifur R. Jonsson Copyright 2026
120 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge
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This book builds upon landmark contributions by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson to interdisciplinary scholarship on Southeast Asia, particularly their essays on how worldview and indigenous notions of power have shaped society and politics. Five anthropologists revisit these classic analyses, situating local notions of power in contemporary dynamics through fieldwork, areal comparisons, and... Read more

Introduction - Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia

Hjorleifur R. Jonsson

 

1. Pluralities of Power in Indonesia’s Intellectual Property Law, Regional Arts and Religious Freedom Debates

Lorraine V. Aragon

 

2. It was not the Government that did it: it was us! Water Supply in Kandon as an Example of Living Lao Socialism

Holly High

 

3. Power Protection, Social Relationships and the Ethnographer

Nicola Tannenbaum

 

4. Losing the Remote: Exploring the Thai Social Order with the Early and Late Hanks

Hjorleifur R. Jonsson

 

5. Revisiting Power in a Southeast Asian Landscape – Discussant’s Comments

Richard A. O’Connor

Biography

Hjorleifur R. Jonsson, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, is an anthropologist of Southeast Asia. He is the author of Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand and Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien. His recent work explores Thai-language fiction and ethnography.

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