Everyday life in Southeast Asia / edited by Kathleen M. Adams and Kathleen A. Gillogly.

Other author Adams, Kathleen M., 1957-
Other author Gillogly, Kathleen.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionx, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Ethnology--Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia--Religious life and customs.

Contents Introduction: Southeast Asia and everyday life / Kathleen A. Gillogy and Kathleen M. Adams -- I: Fluid personhood: conceptualizing identities -- Living in Indonesia without a please or thanks: cultural translations of reciprocity and respect / Lorraine V. Aragon -- Toba Batak selves: personal, spiritual, collective / Andrew Causey -- Poverty and merit: mobile persons in Laos / Holly High -- A question of identity: different ways of being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia / Judith Nagata -- 2: Family, households, and livelihoods -- Maling, a Hanunóo girl from the Philippines / Harold C. Conklin -- Marriage and opium in a Lisu village in northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly -- Merit and power in the Thai social order / Lucien M. Hanks, Jr. -- 3: Crafting the nation-state -- Recording tradition and measuring progress in the ethnic minority highlands of Thailand / Hjorleifur Jonsson -- Everyday life and the management of cultural complexity in contemporary Singapore / John Clammer -- Youth culture and fading memories of war in Hanoi, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- 4: World religions in everyday life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity -- The ordination of a tree: the Buddhist ecology movement in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington -- Javanese women and the veil / Nancy Smith-Hefner -- 5: Communicating ideas: popular culture, arts, and entertainment -- Everyday Catholicism: expanding the sacred sphere in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele -- Cultivating "community" in an Indonesian era of conflict: Toraja artistic strategies for promoting peace / Kathleen M. Adams -- The fall of Thai Rocky / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Everyday life as art: Thai artists and the aesthetics of shopping, eating, protesting, and having fun / Sandra Cate -- Eating lunch and recreating the universe: food and cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam / Nir Avieli -- 6: War and recovery -- Living with the war dead in contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney -- Producing the people: exchange obligations and popular nationalism / Elizabeth G. Traube -- The question of collaborators: moral order and community in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge / Eve Monique Zucker -- 7: Global processes and shifting ecological relations -- When the mountains no longer mean home / Chris Lyttleton -- "They do not like to be confined and told what to do": schooling Malaysian indigenes / Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo -- Narratives of agency: sex work in Indonesia's borderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons -- Just below the surface: environmental destruction and loss of livelihood on an Indonesian atoll / Gene Ammarell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010053606
ISBN9780253356376 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253356377 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253223210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253223210 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN635.S58 E94 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold