{"title":"ASAA conference 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eGet 25% off our curated ASAA collection!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-khmer-lands-of-vietnam","title":"The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Philip Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eWinner of the inaugural \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eEuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2015\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003eShortlisted for the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eICAS Book Prize 2015 for Best Study in the Social Sciences. From a total of 175 submitted books, 10 were long listed before 6 were short listed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eCHOICE Highly Recommended\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a unique perspective on history and sovereignty in their heavily contested homelands. To cope with wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building, the Khmer Krom have selectively engaged with the outside world in addition to drawing upon local resources and self-help networks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book reveals the sophisticated ecological repertoire deployed by the Khmer Krom to deal with a complex river delta, and charts their diverse adaptations to a changing environment. In addition, it provides an ethnographically grounded exposition of Khmer mythic thought that shows how the Khmer Krom position themselves within a landscape imbued with life-sustaining potential, magical sovereign power and cosmological significance. Offering a new environmental history of the Mekong River delta this book is the first to explore Southern Vietnam through the eyes of its indigenous Khmer residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...a thoughtful analysis of an important yet oft-overlooked ethnic group that inhabits the rich Mekong Delta.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Galway, The University of British Columbia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Philip Taylor's masterful study should do much to dispel ignorance, prejudices, and basic misconceptions about the Khmer Krom (literally, lower Khmer). \" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Hirsch, University of Sydney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this meticulous, absorbing  and often poignant book, Philip Taylor draws on years of fieldwork to take us among the appealing, resilient and ecologically gifted  Khmer speaking minority  in southern Vietnam. This is the first book in any language to treat these beleaguered men, and women with the sustained, sympathetic attention that they deserve.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Chandler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Khmer Lands\u003c\/em\u003e is a truly singular work of scholarship, one that brings into sharp focus a people and place long obscured from view, allowing the reader a glimpse into both the physical and mythical environs in which the Khmer Krom live.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Gorman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is surely the most thorough study of this region and its Khmer minority ever undertaken. It is based on a remarkable amount of fieldwork. Taylor conducted 17 fieldtrips to the region, during which he visited over 400 villages... But the real methodological achievement of this study is its systematic study of the unique ecology of this region.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Jory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Khmer Lands of Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich, thoughtful exploration of the culture of Khmer communities living in Vietnam. Taylor’s success lays in his patience, his linguistic skills, and his scientific knowledge.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Firpo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\"...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eThe Khmer Lands of Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e is a work that will be an important read for students, teachers and researchers of Environmental History, Anthropology, History of Southeast Asia, Buddhist Studies and Vietnam.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam B Noseworthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eKhmer Lands\u003c\/em\u003e performs a valuable corrective service. It challenges us to seek out storylines and cosmologies that lie beyond those repeatedly articulated by the state. It is a fascinating case study, and an avowedly revisionist environmental history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Biggs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"absolutely necessary...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLee Hae Won\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University. 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Starting from this foundation, race and indigeneity have featured prominently in Malaysian politics throughout the post-war era, influencing both the civil status and property rights of broad sectors of the population. Scientific opinion shapes Malaysian thinking about the subject as do stereotypes, but much of the discussion rests on concepts developed within the discipline of anthropology and by the colonial administration in a process that dates back to the early nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Taming the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e examines the complex history of indigeneity and racial thought in the Malay Peninsula, and the role played by the politics of knowledge in determining racial affinities, by charting the progression of thought concerning indigenous or aboriginal people. The author shows that the classifications of indigenous and Malay depend on a mixture of cultural, social and religious knowledge that is compressed under the heading race but differs according to the circumstances under which it is produced and the uses to which it is put. By historicizing the categorization of aborigines and British engagement with aboriginal groups in Malaya, \u003cem\u003eTaming the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e situates racial knowledge within larger frames of anthropological and racial thought, and highlights the persistence of nineteenth-century understandings of indigeneity and Malayness in racial contestations in modern Malaysia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"a valuable contribution to our general understanding of the ways in which populations are constructed in racial, ethnic and historical terms, and specifically to the literature on the aboriginal populations of Peninsular Malaysia.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictor T. 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In this book, Catherine Smith examines the global reach of the contested yet compelling concept of trauma, which has expanded well beyond the bounds of therapeutic practice to become a powerful cultural idiom shaping the ways social actors understand the effects of violence and imagine possible responses to suffering. In Aceh, conflict survivors have incorporated the globalised concept of trauma into local languages, healing practices and political imaginaries. The incorporation of this globalised idiom of distress into the Acehnese medical-moral landscape provides an ethnographic perspective on suffering and recovery, and contributes to contemporary debates about the globalisation of psychiatry and its ongoing expansion outside the domain of medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eThe book deftly interweaves social theory with Acehnese culture and historical consciousness and a deep sympathy for Aceh’s suffering people.”-- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cribb\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAustralian National University\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an anthropologist who works across medical anthropology, political anthropology and global health research in order to understand the politics of health in the Asia Pacific region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2017\u003cbr\u003e232 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-981-4722-60-5\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e2 maps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/asaa.asn.au\/book-series\/southeast-asia\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/malaysiasoriginal-people?variant=1245119836\" title=\"Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36399164114,"sku":"9789814722605","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Aceh_cover_ASAA_2_pg_4_hires.jpg?v=1497492943"},{"product_id":"soul-catcher-java-s-fiery-prince-mangkunagara-i-1726-95","title":"Soul Catcher: Java’s Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726-95","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM.C. Ricklefs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMangkunagara I (1726-95) was one of the most flamboyant figures of 18th-century Java. A charismatic rebel from 1740 to 1757 and one of the foremost military commanders of his age, he won the loyalty of many followers. He was also a devout Muslim of the Mystic Synthesis style, a devotee of Javanese culture and a lover of beautiful women and Dutch gin. His enemies—the Surakarta court, his uncle the rebel and later Sultan Mangkubumi of Yogyakarta and the Dutch East India Company—were unable to subdue him, even when they united against him. In 1757 he settled as a semi-independent prince in Surakarta, pursuing his objective of as much independence as possible by means other than war, a frustrating time for a man who was a fighter to his fingertips. Professor Ricklefs here employs an extraordinary range of sources in Dutch and Javanese—among them Mangkunagara I’s voluminous autobiographical account of his years at war, the earliest autobiography in Javanese so far known—to bring this important figure to life. As he does so, our understanding of Java’s devastating civil war of the mid-18th century is transformed and much light is shed on Islam and culture in Java.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e“one of the most consequential books on Southeast Asia of the past generation”… – \u003cstrong\u003eHoward Federspiel,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eIndonesia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"The Prince\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSambĕr Nyawa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a very familiar name among Indonesians. However, our knowledge on his life and role as member of the Mataram royal family is very limited. The story of his character circulated is more of myths than a historical figure. This book convincingly provides readers a very rich biography of this flamboyant man based on first hand Javanese primary sources, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSĕrat Babad\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePakunĕgaran\u003c\/em\u003e, and the VOC archives.\"\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003eOman Fathurahman\u003c\/strong\u003e, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e“should appeal to an audience well beyond specialists in Javanese history....beautifully written, exhaustively documented, and exemplifies the quality of information that can be extracted from an insightful treatment of indigenous Indonesian historiography.”\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Bulbeck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"M.C. Ricklefs’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoul Catcher\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis a rich and deeply textured portrait of Mangkunagara I (1726–95), a man who played a crucial role in in the history of 18th-century Java. Rickefs’ magisterial biography traces this prince’s life story, with an especially detailed history of the 15-year long military campaign he waged against the forces of the Dutch along with those of his various royal Javanese rivals. Ricklefs’ captivating narrative vividly displays his unparalled command and careful use of primary sources from both the Dutch colonial and the royal Javanese archives.\" –\u003cstrong\u003eNancy Florida\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Michigan \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM.C. 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It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines the human cost and community impact of the violence on people from different sides of the political divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer major contribution is an examination of the experiences of people on the political Left. Drawing on interviews, archival records, and government and military reports, she traces the lives of a number of individuals, following their efforts to build a base for resistance in the South Blitar area of East Java, and their subsequent journeys into prisons and detention centres, or into hiding and a shadowy underground existence. She also provides a new understanding of relations between the army and its civilian supporters, many of whom belonged to Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent times, the Indonesian killings have received increased attention, but researchers have struggled to overcome a dearth of available records and the stigma associated with communist party membership. By studying events in a single province and focusing on the experiences of individuals, Hearman has taken a large step toward a better understanding of a fraught period in Indonesia’s recent past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e”she shows the persecuted not just as faceless victims or representatives of abstract ideologies but living, breathing human beings. 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It belongs both in university libraries and the shelves of more mainstream bookshops, as the accessible writing and critical topic should appeal to a wide range of audiences...will no doubt stand for many years as required reading for anyone wishing to learn about one of the darkest periods in Modern Indonesian history.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Annie Pohlmann\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This extraordinary book documents with care, not only the horror of living through the 1965 killings, but also the political lives of members of the Indonesian Left. 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It is also the first to juxtapose such communities with those of Japanese emigrants as ethnic minorities elsewhere. It presents both archival and fieldwork-based case studies that highlight music in the dynamics of encounter and attempted identity making, under a unifying framework of migration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA radical change in policy with the  introduction of a new “Specified Skilled Worker” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003evisa category marked the beginning of Japan’s “new immigration era” in 2019 (\u003cem\u003eimin gannen\u003c\/em\u003e). The authors in this volume interrogate and shed light on the bureaucratically disseminated slogan of \u003cem\u003etabunka kyōsei\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, rendered in English as “multicultural coexistence”. The concept itself and the many problems of realizing this ideal are examined through ethnography-based accounts of current minorities, including South Indians, Brazilians, Nepalis, Filipinos, Iranians and Ainu domestic migrants, and in light of comparative historical accounts of California and Australia. This volume will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, students of the cultures of migrant communities, and those engaged with cultural change and diversity in Japan and East Asia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eUnsilent Strangers\u003cem\u003e is a scholarly work that allows us to listen for ways by which music expresses minority identities in and through Japan. Together, these essays demonstrate ways by which music matters, as not merely a cultural idiom, but as a vital and fundamental part of our coexistence with each other.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e- Christine Yano, University of Hawai`i, Manoa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHugh de Ferranti \u003c\/strong\u003eis\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ea researcher of Japanese music culture and history. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e (Cornell University Press, 2009). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMasaya Shishikura\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor at Huizhou University and a research fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology. 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Our volume focuses on Southeast Asia during the Cold War because this was a time when many of the institutions and people that have shaped the subsequent responses to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics first developed. In other words, the Cold War framed many current trends in less than obvious ways. The diversity of approaches to health and medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia also reminds us of the possibilities, and limits, of human intervention in the face of political, social, economic, and microbial realities. More than just a source of emerging infectious diseases, the people and places of Southeast Asia have provided a clinical trial for different health regimes. This volume highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) series. 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The chapters here show how central health has been to nation-building in Southeast Asia – and how crucial Southeast Asia has been to the politics of global health.\"\u003c\/em\u003e – Sunil Amrith, Yale University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eFighting for Health\u003cem\u003e does much more than offer the first history of medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. As demonstrated by a fine collection of essays, the region provided a “clinical trial for a plurality of health regimes” that not only built on shortages and violence but on South-South medical solidarities and inter-Asia scientific networks. Health regimes we need to learn from to rethink global health.\" \u003c\/em\u003e– Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal, Canada\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"With its diversity of peoples, varied ecologies, multiple colonial regimes and nation-states, and heterogeneous health practices, Southeast Asia constitutes a crucial site for comparative history of medicine. In our pandemic era,\u003c\/em\u003e Fighting for Health\u003cem\u003e thus offers fresh insight into the historical complexities of disease emergence and outbreak endings. 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