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Serious acts of violence against this ethnic minority occurred during Indonesia's colonial past, and after a period relatively free of such incidents became increasingly frequent during the final years of Suharto's New Order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this first book-length study of anti-Chinese hostility during the collapse of Suharto's regime, Jemma Purdey presents a close analysis of the main incidents of violence during the transitional period between 1996 and 1999, and the unprecedented process of national reflection that ensued. The mass violence that accompanied the fall of the regime in May 1998 affected not only ethnic Chinese but also indigenous or \u003cem\u003epribumi\u003c\/em\u003e Indonesians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author places anti-Chinese riots within this broader context, considering causes and agency as well as the way violence has been represented. While ethnicity and prejudice are central to the explanation put forward, she concludes that politics, economics and religion offer additional keys to understanding why such outbreaks occurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"If Purdey's study was only an analysis of Indonesia's anti-Chinese violence of the late 1990s it would be well worth recommending. But it is so much more than that. She has also made a first class contribution towards asking and answering profound questions in areas such as ethnicity, identity, sexual violence, religious violence, and genocide studies.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMichael D. 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Joel Kahn challenges the kampung version of Malayness, arguing that it ignores the immigration of Malays from outside the peninsula to participate in trade or commercial agriculture, the substantial Malay population in towns and cities, and the reformist Muslims who argued for a common bond in Islam and played down Malayness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOwing to a rising dissatisfaction with the established order and new modernist sensitivities, especially among younger Malaysians, the author argues that it is time to revisit the alternative, more cosmopolitan narrative of Malayness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel S. KAHN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor of Anthropology at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. 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The kampung symbolises home and the locus of Malay identity, but schoolbooks and television have projected urbanism that marks rural life as backwards and marginal in a forward-looking nation into the kampung.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book challenges city-bound urban studies by locating urbanism in a wider world that extends outside of the city, and shows the conflicted realities of rural dwellers in an overwhelmingly urban world. As others have challenged the meaning of \"modernity\", Thompson challenges the meaning of \"urban\" while still recognising the powerful effects of an ideology of \"urbanism\". \u003cem\u003eUnsettling Absences\u003c\/em\u003e is a call to take seriously place-based identities and cultural geographies in a world where the urban\/rural divide is dissolving in practice but in cultural terms remains as powerful as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric C. 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Officially regarded as one of Vietnam's national minority groups, the multilingual Cham are part of a cosmopolitan, transnational community, and as traders, pilgrims and labour migrants are found throughout mainland Southeast Asia and beyond. Drawing on local and extra-local networks developed during a long history that includes many migrations, the Cham counter their political and economic marginalisation in modern Vietnam by a strategic use of place and mobility, with Islam serving as a unifying focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This highly readable ethnographic study describes the settlement history and origin narratives of the Cham Muslims of the Mekong delta, and explains their religious practices, material life and relationship with the state in Vietnam and Cambodia. It offers original insights into religious and ethnic differentiation in the Mekong delta that will enrich comparative study of culturally pluralist societies, and contributes significantly to the study of Islam, cosmopolitanism, trade, rural development and resistance and the Malay diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" data-angle=\"0\" data-font-name=\"g_font_200_0\" data-canvas-width=\"231.91172688579553\"\u003e\"Given the pace of development in Vietnam, and the deep ethnic chauvinism detailed in this book, one certainly hopes that Vietnamese planners do take the central message to heart. The book will be a welcome addition to the study of Cham Muslims, and to the developing literature on the multi-ethnic, religiously diverse regions ofVietnam’s south.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eEric Harms \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University. He also authored \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-khmer-lands-of-vietnam?variant=1245115972\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2007\u003cbr\u003e304 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-361-9\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245100820,"sku":"9789971693619","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971693619.jpeg?v=1426584380"},{"product_id":"renaissance-singapore-economy-culture-and-politics","title":"Renaissance Singapore? 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Moved by Singapore's \u003cem\u003eRenaissance City Report\u003c\/em\u003e, released in 2000 amidst an uneasy mix of millennial celebration and pessimism arising from a prolonged economic downturn, the authors engage with the public rhetoric of Singapore's transformation into a forward-looking, critical, unconventional, open, diverse, participatory, and inclusive society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKenneth Paul TAN\u003c\/strong\u003e is Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2007\u003cbr\u003e288 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-377-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245101240,"sku":"9789971693770","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/renaissance_singapore_999.jpg?v=1429523433"},{"product_id":"riots-pogroms-jihad","title":"Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy John T. 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Sidel situates terrorist bombings and other \"jihadist\" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop of earlier episodes of religious violence in the country, including religious riots in provincial towns and cities in 1995-97, the May 1998 riots in Jakarta, and inter-religious pogroms in 1999-2001. Through a close account of these episodes drawn from a wide range of documentary, ethnographic, and journalistic materials, he considers religious violence in terms of the broader political and sociological contexts in which they unfolded. Successive shifts in the incidence of violence - its forms, locations, targets, perpetrators, mobilizational processes, and outcomes - correspond, Sidel suggests, to related shifts in the very structures of religious authority and identity in Indonesia. 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Duncan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694180');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate minority ethnic groups into the nation-state. The authors of \u003cem\u003eCivilizing the Margins\u003c\/em\u003e discuss the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities in eight countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Once targeted for intervention, people such as the Orang Asli of Malaysia and the hill tribes of Thailand often become the subject of programs aimed at radically changing their lifestyles, which the government views as backward or primitive. Several chapters highlight the tragic consequences of forced resettlement, a common result of these programs. Others question the motives behind pushing minorities into development schemes. Rather than simply describing the effects of the programs and the experiences of participants, the contributors to this book attempt to understand the ideologies and strategies that led to the implementation of these programs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This edition contains a new chapter outlining developments since the book was first published in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Overall this book makes a valuable contribution to the study of the interaction of government policies, bureaucracies, bureaucrats, and various indigenous peoples. It provides a concise and readable overview of the array of government policies for indigenous minority peoples in Southeast Asia...It is also accessible to people with litte knowledge of Southeast Asia, making it useful for students interested in development and minority policies.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eNicola Tannenbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"This volume represents an important source for those seeking an introduction to indigenous and minority groups in the region. It should be essential reading for any student of Southeast Asian history and culture as a corrective to textbooks that seldom give more than a brief glance at national minorities.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eKatharine McKinnon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher R. Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical \u0026amp; Religious Studies and in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. He is the author of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/violence-and-vengeance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eViolence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, also published in Asia by NUS Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2008\u003cbr\u003e296 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-418-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245102156,"sku":"9789971694180","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694180.jpeg?v=1426584435"},{"product_id":"kuala-lumpur-and-putrajaya","title":"Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Ross King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694159');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur - \"widely known as KL\" - has just celebrated 50 years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's new administrative capital. Where KL is a diverse, cosmopolitan, multi-racial metropolis, Putrajaya fulfils an elitist vision of a Malay-Muslim utopia. KL's multicultural richness is reflected in the brilliance and diversity of its architecture and urban spaces; Putrajaya, by contrast, is an architectural homage to an imagined Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'purity' of Putrajaya throws the cosmopolitan diversity of Kuala Lumpur into sharp relief, and the tension between the two places reflects the rifts that run through Malaysian society. The author considers what form of metropolis the Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya region might foreshadow, arguing that signs of this future city are to be sought in the collision points between the utopian dreams of imagined futures and the reality of purposely forgotten pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes copious illustrations of the wider Kuala Lumpur metropolitan region. It is directly applicable to studies in architecture, urban planning, urban design, and Malaysian politics and society. It also has relevance to the fields of postcolonial studies, media studies and critical social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoss King\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architectural Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and from 1995 to 2002 was Professor and Dean in that Faculty. His current research deals with contested identities in Asian cities and the role played by urban planning, urban design and architecture. He is the author of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/reading-bangkok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Bangkok\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (NUS Press, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2008\u003cbr\u003e352 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-415-9\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245102636,"sku":"9789971694159","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/RKing-NUS.jpg?v=1427440259"},{"product_id":"from-rebellion-to-riots","title":"From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Jamie S. Davidson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694272');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Rebellion to Riots\u003c\/em\u003e examines contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. It documents how a communist rebellion in the 1960s and low-level conflicts in the decades that followed led to major ethnic clashes in the late 1990s, when an indigenous empowerment movement took shape and local elites sought to capture the benefits of decentralization and democratization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCiting fieldwork, internal military documents, and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S. Davidson's historically-rooted analysis argues that explanations based on a clash of cultures, the ills of New Order-led development, or marginalization overlook the importance of an ongoing politicization of ethnic and indigenous identity. His research demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not an inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity, and that the initial impetus for collective bloodshed is not necessarily the same as the forces that sustain it. The conclusions the book draws will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asia and to scholars of collective violence and indigenous politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Thoroughly grounded in both the burgeoning theoretical literature on ethnic violence and the turbulent history of western Borneo, this nuanced study shows the need to disaggregate such vast entities as Indonesia to understand the \"tipping points\" towards violence.\" - Anthony Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Path-breaking. Davidson assesses the prior scholarship on ethnic violence and challenges much of the conventional wisdom in a manner that has both insight and considerable value.\" - Michael Leigh\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJamie S. DAVIDSON\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e312 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-427-2\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245103652,"sku":"9789971694272","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/From_rebellion_to_riots.jpg?v=1427684343"},{"product_id":"kampung-islam-and-state-in-urban-java","title":"Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Patrick Guinness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694708');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"caption\"\u003eThe nature of community in urban Java changed dramatically during the economic and political transition that followed the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, although the community continues to provide a rallying point for urban low-income residents in the off-street neighbourhoods (kampong) in Yogyakarta and in other cities of Java. Under Soeharto, kampung residents both cooperated in the supervision of their lives by the state and explored forms of sociality that gave some protection from collusion with the state. With the demise of the New Order and the rise of policies promoting decentralization, urban society changed under the impact of political reform, globalization, global and local patterns of consumerism, and kampung expression of community. Patrick Guinness, who began studying the kampung settlements of Yogyakarta more than 30 years ago, examines these processes in terms of economic, political and ritual patterns, and from the perspectives of kampung leaders and entrepreneurs, kampung youth, formal and casual labor, and NGO volunteers working in these neighbourhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"caption\"\u003eWhere community was once examined on the basis of romantic and mistaken assumptions about the homogeneity and compactness of what are often disparate collections of neighbours, it has been seen more recently as a construction of the nation-state in its bid to control and develop its citizens, as a construction of the local populace in their negotiations with or opposition to the state, and as a mechanism enabling local residents to cope with the pressure of state and market demands on them, although each of these interpretations if slavishly followed distorts the complex relations of kampung people with the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The book provides rich insights into everyday life in urban kampung Java. Patrick Guinness draws from ethnographic observation and historical research conducted since 1975 to provide an intricately detailed account of urban and generational transformation spanning three decades...[Guinness] skillfully accomplished the more difficult task of slipping seamlessly between decades to compare, contrast and map the processes of change in the lives and livelihoods of kampung residents through thematically organized chapters...This is a valuable resource book for anyone with an interest in community development, urban society and state-societal relations in modern Indonesia. More broadly, it will apeal to those interested in the changing phenomenon of the kampung across a rapidly urbanizing Malay world.\" - \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMichelle Ann Miller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick GUINNESS\u003c\/strong\u003e is Head of School and Reader in Anthropology at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e272 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-470-8\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245104004,"sku":"9789971694708","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694708.jpeg?v=1426584514"},{"product_id":"paths-and-rivers","title":"Paths and Rivers: Sa'dan Toraja Society in Transformation","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Roxana Waterson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe product of fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period, \u003cem\u003ePaths and Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa'dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the 20th century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonies, which place extraordinary economic demands on individuals and families. A comparative perspective sets Toraja structure in the context of the Austronesian world, but the author also delves deeply into Toraja social memory to show how people think about their past, and to examine the usefulness of history and myth as a source of identity, a template for action, or a resource for claiming presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book gives a clear picture of the structure and ethos of the indigenous Toraja religion, the A\u003cem\u003eluk To Dolo\u003c\/em\u003e or 'Way of the Ancestors', with its complex cycle of rituals. As more and more people convert to Christianity, \u003cem\u003eAluk To Dolo\u003c\/em\u003e is in increasingly rapid decline; yet, certain Toraja rituals, especially mortuary rites and those that celebrate the rebuilding of origin houses, continue vigorously in Christianized forms. The book concludes with an analysis of the ceremonial economy, which draws upon both domestic and subsistence production and the global market economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'Toraja' ethnic identity emerged during the past century as a response to far-reaching social changes initiated by the Dutch colonial regime and accelerated through ensuing regime changes and political developments, culminating in the effervescent mood of 'Reformation' since Soeharto's fall from power in 1998. In tracing these transformations, \u003cem\u003ePaths and Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e draws together a fascinating picture of one society's journey into modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoxana Waterson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. Her other publications include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/contestations-of-memory-in-southeast-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eContestations of Memory in Southeast Asia \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/southeast-asian-lives\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eSoutheast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e510 pages, 240mm x 150mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-482-1\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245104320,"sku":"9789971694821","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Paths_Rivers_999.jpg?v=1427861414"},{"product_id":"penang","title":"Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Jean DeBernardi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694166');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn what is today Malaysia, the British established Georgetown on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural urban settlement that developed, the Chinese immigrants organized their social life through community temples like the Guanyin Temple (Kong Hok Palace) and their secret sworn brotherhoods. These community associations assumed exceptional importance precisely because they were a means to establish a social presence for the Chinese immigrants, to organize their social life, and to display their economic prowess. The Confucian \"cult of memory\" also took on new meanings in the early twentieth century as a form of racial pride. In twentieth-century Penang, religious practices and events continued to draw the boundaries of belonging in the idiom of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I of \u003cem\u003eRites of Belonging\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the conjuncture between Chinese and British in colonial Penang. The author closely analyzes the 1857 Guanyin Temple Riots and conflicts leading to the suppression of the Chinese sworn brotherhoods. Part II investigates the conjuncture between Chinese and Malays in contemporary Malaysia, and the revitalization in the 1970s and 1980s of Chinese popular religious culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Debernardi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her areas of specialization include Chinese in Southeast Asia; the anthropology of religion; and ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on Chinese popular religion in Malaysia and Singapore and her publications include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/cantonese-society-in-china-and-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eCantonese Society in China and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-way-that-lives-in-the-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2006).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e366 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-416-6\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245104396,"sku":"9789971694166","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Penang_Front_cover.jpg?v=1427336695"},{"product_id":"personal-names-in-asia","title":"Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by \u003cspan\u003eZheng \u003c\/span\u003eYangwen and Charles J-H MacDonald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the \"normative\" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is particularly true in Asia, a region with some of the most sophisticated naming devices found anywhere in the world, including nicknames and teknonyms, religious and corporation names, honor and death names, pseudonyms and retirement names, house names and clan names, local and foreign names, official and private names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople across the continent carry multiple names meaningful to different audiences. Some are used only in family relations while others locate individuals in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, caste, class, and nation. The centrality of names to many of the crucial debates and preoccupations of the modern world - identity, hybridity, migration, nationalism, multi-culturalism, globalization - makes it particularly surprising that there has been little systematic comparative exploration of Asian names and naming systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\nThis path-breaking volume classifies and theorizes the systems underlying naming practices in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia where systems are abundant and fluid. Using historical and socio-anthropological perspectives, the authors of this exceptionally close collaborative effort show the intricate connections between naming systems, notions of personhood and the prevailing ethos of interpersonal relations. They also show how the peoples of Asia are fashioning new types of naming and different ways of identifying themselves to suit the demands of a changing world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important volume because it raises new questions about the ethnography, anthropology and history of Asia...This book, nonetheless, marks a good start to making sense of personal identities and the development of collective identities in Asia.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eJason Lim\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...sheds welcome analytical light on a fundamental aspect of social life...[using] very rich ethnographic and historical materials...Each of the authors provides thoughtful analysis of their materials, and the diversity of materials presented amply confirms the book's thesis that names, far from being just a matter of classification, are endlessly productive of social identities. After reading this book, you will discover just how strange and restrictive it is to be stuck with one name for life!\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eRoxana Waterson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYangwen ZHENG\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Lecturer at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures and Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles MACDONALD\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Research Fellow of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) attached to the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e352 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-380-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245104488,"sku":"9789971693800","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971693800.jpeg?v=1426584536"},{"product_id":"studies-on-islam-and-society-in-southeast-asia","title":"Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy William R. Roff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam R. Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam and Muslims, with special reference to Southeast Asia. With interests primarily in social and intellectual history he has contributed essays during this period to a wide range of learned journals and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present collection reprints a selection of the most notable of these, from historiographical and methodological studies to the development of Islamic educational and other institutions, the nature of the Arab presence in Southeast Asia, and the social significance of the hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca. The author has been a formative influence on two generations of students and other scholars, and this reissue in accessible form of seminal but scattered essays will be widely welcomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam R. Roff\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, New York and an Honorary Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e372 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-406-7\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-489-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":1245104804,"sku":"9789971694067","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":1245104808,"sku":"9789971694890","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694067.jpeg?v=1426827266"},{"product_id":"tai-lands-and-thailand","title":"Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Andrew Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudies of the Tai world often treat \"state\" and \"community\" as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialization while community sustains tradition, local knowledge and subsistence economy. This assumption leads to the conclusion that the traditional community is undermined by the modern forces of state incorporation and market penetration. States rule and communities resist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTai Lands and Thailand\u003c\/em\u003e takes a very different view. Using thematic and ethnographic studies from Thailand, Laos, Burma and southern China, the authors describe modern forms of community where state power intersects with markets, livelihoods and aspirations. Modern community is not easily created nor is it inevitable, but rapid social and economic change in the Tai world has provided many opportunities for new forms of communal belonging to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTai Lands and Thailand\u003c\/em\u003e opens up fresh perspectives on a region in transition, and the discussion promises to inform future studies of contemporary sociality in Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...offers a timely, stimulating, and unique study on the theme of community.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eBaba Yuji\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Walker\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program at the Australian National University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"series\"\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e256 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-471-5\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245104884,"sku":"9789971694715","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694715.jpeg?v=1426584549"},{"product_id":"workers-and-intellectuals","title":"Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Michele Ford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter decades of repression, Indonesia's independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s led by the NGO activists and students who organized industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998 when Suharto's authoritarian regime crumbled and labour NGO activists and their organizations continued to play an influentialâ and often controversialâ part in the reconstruction of the labour movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorkers and Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e explores how middle-class activists struggled to define their place in a movement shaped by more than a century of fierce debate about the role of non-worker intellectuals. Drawing on extensive interviews, this book documents the resurgence of labour activism and explains how activists and workers perceived the position of NGOs in relation to workers and trade unions. This fine-grained study of labour organizing in a developing country speaks simultaneously to local and global questions and is important for scholars of labour history, politics and sociology as well as specialists working on Indonesia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is indeed well designed and clearly written, with many detailed references and notes. It is mainly, one must conclude, a useful book for policy-makers, trade union leaders and intellectuals and other individuals who are interested in trade union ovements in general... Although the book is highly specialized in focus, area-studies lecturers and researchers, as well [as] graduate students, may also find many nuggets of information on this relatively neglected topic. It [is] strongly recommended as a library purchase.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eYing Zhu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichele Ford\u003c\/strong\u003e chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour transnationalism and trade union responses to labour migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"series\"\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e272 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-488-3\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245105348,"sku":"9789971694883","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/FordCover-NUS.jpg?v=1427445703"},{"product_id":"worshipping-the-great-moderniser","title":"Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Irene Stengs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694296');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Thailand the globalizing urban culture associated with the economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to an alienating anomie. In the slipstream of this boom, an immense cult took shape around King Chulalongkorn the Great (r.1868-1910) that reworked the idea of Buddhist kingship, making it the pivot of the modern Thai social cosmos and creating a new foundation for Thai identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorshipping the Great Moderniser\u003c\/em\u003e explores the contemporary appeal of King Chulalongkorn and considers what this ruler's unprecendented popularity says about present-day Thai society. Arguing that the exalted expectations of modern Buddhist kingship are a product of the ambitions and anxieties of Thailand's expanding middle class, Irene Stengs compares the popular image of King Chulalongkorn with that of the present king, the highly venerated King Bhumibol Adulyadej, to show that while modern Buddhist kingship and current ideas of Thainess draw on traditional idioms, they are highly modern. This examination of the social imaginary surrounding Thai kingship and Thainess during the past century and a half yields an intriguing amalgam of ideas concerning popular religion, Buddhist kingship, nationalism, and material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One great value of Stengs' detailed analysis of the cult of Chulalongkorn is that with greater comprehensiveness, substantive detail and empirical specificity than elsewhere in the scholarly literature, she essentially outlines the cultural, organizational, social and material infrastructure necessary for a successful movement of sacral devotionalism in general and the cult of a deified monarch in particular.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eErick D. White\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIrene Stengs\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Researcher with the Department of Ethnology at the Meertens Institute for Research and Documentation of Language and Culture of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2009\u003cbr\u003e328 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-429-6\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245105368,"sku":"9789971694296","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694296.jpeg?v=1426584575"},{"product_id":"de-jiao-a-religious-movement-in-contemporary-china-and-overseas","title":"De Jiao: A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Bernard Formoso\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971694920');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Jiao (\"Teaching of Virtue\") is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in the tradition of the \"halls for good deeds,\" which emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. The book relates the fascinating process of its spread throughout Southeast Asia in the 1950s, and, more recently, from Thailand and Malaysia to post-Maoist China and the global world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a richly-documented multi-site ethnography of De Jiao congregations in the PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, Bernard Formoso offers valuable insights into the adaptation of Overseas Chinese to sharply contrasted national polities, and the projective identity they build with relation to China. De Jiao is of special interest with regard to its organization and strategies which strongly reflect the managerial habits and entrepreneurial ethos of the Overseas Chinese businessmen. It has also built original bonding with symbols of the Chinese civilization whose greatness it claims to champion from the periphery. Accordingly, a central theme of the study is the role that such a religious movement may play to promote new forms of identification with the motherland as substitutes for loosened genealogical links. The book also offers a comprehensive interpretation of the contemporary practice of fu ji spirit-writing, and reconsiders the relation between unity and diversity in Chinese religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] remarkable book...[that] offers us precious insights into another important aspect of Chinese popular religion that has tended to be overlooked...One of the most impressive aspects of the book is its multi-site ethnography...This fascinating book is recommended for both specialists and advanced students of Chinese religions, and for those who wish to understand religious globalization and the processes through which a particular religion is transformed and localized in response to specific national contexts.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eFrancis Khek Gee Lim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"The diversity of arguments large and small provides great food for thought...\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eThomas Dubois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBernard FORMOSO\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at Paris-Quest-La Defense University. He has devoted more than 20 years to studying the Chinese communities of mainland Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2010\u003cbr\u003e280 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-492-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245105524,"sku":"9789971694920","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694920.jpeg?v=1426584585"},{"product_id":"love-and-dread-in-cambodia","title":"Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Peg LeVine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975-79), filming their return to these locations. In the process she uncovered evidence of the way severe dislocation, induced starvation and other murderous activities paved the way for reconstructed communes. Group marriages, along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodian society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This\"ritualcide\"caused a mass loss of spirit-protective places, objects, and arbitrators, and had a traumatic impact on Khmer society. Group marriages did, however, give spouses a reprieve from further dislocation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproaching the process as an ethno-psychologist, LeVine argues that suffering was intensified by ritual tampering on the part of the Khmer Rouge. Such disruptions did not end in 1979, however, since Euro-American perspectives on trauma and reconciliation have also failed to accept spirit respect as a normative feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This fine-grained, empathetic and persuasive study revisits hundreds of the innumerable weddings arranged by the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) for Cambodian citizens in the so-called Khmer Rouge period (1975-79). The couples, many of whom remain together, lament the joylessness of their weddings and the absence of customary rituals as they revisit the bitter experience of those horrific times\" - David Chandler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeg LEVINE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Research Fellow\/Clinical Psychologist at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. 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Lindquist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Indonesian island of Batam is a booming frontier territory where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and as prostitutes servicing working class tourists from Singapore. It is also a jumping off point for Indonesians entering Malaysia and Singapore in search of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExport processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vilified in contemporary debates on economic globalization. Johan Lindquist's extensive fieldwork allows him to portray globalization in terms of relationships that bind individuals together over long distances rather than as a set of impersonal economic transactions. His unique ethnographic perspective draws together the worlds of factory workers and prostitutes, migrants and tourists to create a compelling account of everyday life in a borderland characterized by dramatic capitalist expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book uses three Indonesian concepts (\u003cem\u003emerantau\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003emalu\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eliar\u003c\/em\u003e) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on Batam. The first refers to a migrant's relationship with home. The second signifies the shame or embarrassment felt when one is between accepted roles and emotional states. The third, literally \"wild\", is used to identify those who are out of place, notably squatters, couples in premarital cohabitation, and prostitutes without pimps. These sometimes overlapping concepts allow the book to move across economic, geographical and metaphorical boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohan A. Lindquist\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2010\u003cbr\u003e193 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-476-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245106476,"sku":"9789971694760","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694760.jpeg?v=1426584622"},{"product_id":"surviving-against-the-odds","title":"Surviving Against The Odds: Village Industry In Indonesia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy S. Ann Dunham, Edited by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresident Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries, including Indonesia. When Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawai'i to Soetoro's home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawaii to attend school in 1971. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992, based on field work conducted intermittently over a period of fourteen years that examined rural industries in Indonesia, with a particular focus on metalworking in Java. She planned to revise the dissertation for publication, but died in 1995, at the age of 52, before she could complete the work. Dunham's academic adviser, Alice G. Dewey, and her fellow graduate student, Nancy I. Cooper, edited the dissertation at the request of Dunham's daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng, to produce \u003cem\u003eSurviving against the Odds\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDedicated to Dunham's mother Madelyn, her adviser Alice Dewey, and \"Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field,\" \u003cem\u003eSurviving against the Odds\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to Dunham's commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS. Ann Dunham\u003c\/strong\u003e (1942-95), mother of President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, earned her undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees, all in anthropology, from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Dunham spent many years working on rural development, microfinance, and women's welfare through various organizations, including USAID, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Indonesian Federation of Labor Unions, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice G. Dewey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNancy I. Cooper\u003c\/strong\u003e is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i. 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This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparaties of education or changes in income and consumption patterns, this growing gulf encompasses language, religion, and social memory. \u003cem\u003eThe Binding Tie\u003c\/em\u003e explores how expectations and obligations between generations are being challenged, reworked, and reaffirmed in the face of far-reaching societal change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author focuses on the middle generation, caught between elderly parents who grew up speaking dialect and their own children who speak English and Mandarin. In analyzing the forces that bind these generations together, she deploys the idea of an intergenerational \"contract\" that serves as a metaphor for customary obligations and expectations, and offers striking examples of the meaningful ways in which intergenerational transactions are performed, resisted, and renegotiated. Her rich material, drawn from ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class Chinese, provides insights into the complex interplay of fragmenting and integrating forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristina Gorransson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Lund University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2010\u003cbr\u003e208 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-481-4\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245106592,"sku":"9789971694814","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971694814.jpeg?v=1426584630"},{"product_id":"cantonese-society-in-china-and-singapore","title":"Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Marjorie Topley, Edited by Jean DeBernardi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971695248');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"caption\"\u003eThe volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped creating the fields of religious studies, migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, focusing on topics that remain current and important in the disciplines. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"caption\"\u003eThese essays in this collection showcase Dr Topley's groundbreaking contributions several areas of scholarship. These include \"Chinese Women's Vegetarian Houses in Singapore\" (1954) and \"The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects\" (1963), both important research on the study of subcultural groups in a complex urban society; \"Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung\" (1978), now a classic in Chinese anthropology and women's studies; her widely known and cited article, \"Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome\" (1974), which investigates widely shared everyday practices and cosmological explanations that Cantonese mothers invoked when they encountered difficulties in child-rearing; and \"Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories\" (2004 [1964]).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Topley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a cultural anthropologist trained at the London School of Economics. She moved to Singapore with her husband, Kenneth, in the early 1950s and was hired as the curator of anthropology at the Raffles Museum in 1951. In 1955, the Topleys moved to Hong Kong and in 1958, Dr Topley received her PhD from the London School of Economics for her research on the organization and social function of Chinese women's vegetarian halls in Singapore. Dr Topley published her first articles on Chinese religion in Singapore in 1951 in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and until her return to England in 1983, she conducted path-breaking research in both Singapore and Hong Kong, participated in international conferences and published extensively in the fields of Chinese medical anthropology, migration studies and gender studies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the pillars of Dr Topley's intellectual life and contribution in Hong Kong undoubtedly was her involvement in the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. She played a major role in the revival of the society in1959 and helped create a vibrant organization that forms a bridge between scholarly researchers and a wider public including policymakers and members of the city's business community. Dr Topley served as the branch's vice-president from 1966 to 1972 and as its president from 1972 to 1983. She now lives in England. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Debernardi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her areas of specialization include Chinese in Southeast Asia; the anthropology of religion; and ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on Chinese popular religion in Malaysia and Singapore and her publications include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/penang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2004) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-way-that-lives-in-the-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2006).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e566 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-524-8\u003c\/span\u003e, Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press and Hong Kong University Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245107080,"sku":"9789971695248","price":68.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695248.jpeg?v=1426584655"},{"product_id":"no-mans-land","title":"No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Justin V. Hastings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies of globalization, and difficult terrain poses many of the same problems today as it has throughout human history. In\u003cem\u003e No Man's Land\u003c\/em\u003e, Justin V. Hastings examines the complex relationship that illicit groups have with modern technology - and how and when geography still matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on often difficult fieldwork in Southeast Asia, Hasting traces the logistics networks, command and control structures, and training programs of three distinct clandestine organizations: the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, the insurgent Free Aceh Movement, and organized criminals in the form of smugglers and maritime pirates. Hastings also compares the experiences of these groups to others outside Southeast Asia, including al-Qaeda, the Tamil Tigers, and the Somali pirates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/em\u003e is extremely clearly written - accessible, mercifully full of jargon.\" - Barry Wain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJustin V. HASTINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e272 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-538-5\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245107356,"sku":"9789971695385","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695385.jpeg?v=1426584672"},{"product_id":"rebuilding-the-ancestral-village","title":"Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebuilding the Ancestral Village\u003c\/em\u003e examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China. The author explores the reasons why the Singaporean Chinese continue to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they use ancestor worship and religion in the ancestral village to reproduce traditional Chinese culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome Singaporeans report feeling morally obliged to assist in village reconstruction and to support infrastructure developments such as new roads, bridges, schools and hospitals. Others have helped with small scale industrial and retail activities. For their part, officials and villagers in the ancestral home have utilized various strategies to encourage the Singaporeans to revisit their ancestral village, sustain heritage ties, and help enhance the moral economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis ethnographic study examines how two geographically distinct groups of Chinese have come together to re-establish their lineage and identity through cultural and economic activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...this book offers fresh insights into the studies of the Chinese lineage and inspires readers to reflect upon how linage institutes remains relevant in the modern-day global village. Kuah-Pearce advances current Chinese overseas studies into a new direction.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eLai Yu-Yu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKhun Eng KUAH-PEARCE\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Honorary Academic Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e256 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-525-5\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press and Hong Kong University Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245107636,"sku":"9789971695255","price":32.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695255.jpeg?v=1426584681"},{"product_id":"the-aware-saga","title":"The AWARE Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Terence Chong\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eebook available at: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nlb.overdrive.com\/media\/BFA5099C-4813-4EFF-B39E-355A3C84E03E\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/NLB_for_Shopify.png?v=1585188626\" alt=\"NLB link\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/sg\/en\/ebook\/the-aware-saga-2\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/Screen_Shot_2020-03-25_at_10.32.55_AM.png?v=1585103583\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/3236261\/the-aware-saga\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/OverDrive_Logo_445x65_rgb_small.png?5880839130372297062\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIn March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned within a matter of weeks, but the episode highlighted a variety of issues, including the role of religion in civil society, sex education, homosexuality, state intervention and media engagement. Although the immediate issue was control of an activist group concerned with women's rights, it has implications for the agendas and concerns of NGOs, 'culture wars', the processes of citizenry mobilization, mass participation and noisy democracy, and liberal voices in contemporary Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIn this book, academics and public intellectuals examine the AWARE saga within the context of Singapore's civil society, considering the political and historical background and how the issues it raised relate to contemporary societal trends. In addition to documenting a milestone event for Singapore's civil society, the authors offer provocative interpretations that will interest a broad range of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"The AWARE saga heralds a call to establish new perspectives on Singapore society and politics.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eKai Khiun Liew\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerence Chong\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Sociologist and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e208 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-551-4\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cscript src=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/3236261\/sample-embed?slug=the-aware-saga\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245108004,"sku":"9789971695514","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695514.jpeg?v=1426584686"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-innocence","title":"The End of Innocence? Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rémy Madinier and Andrée Feillard, Translated by Wong Wee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eebook available at: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Innocence-Indonesian-Temptations-Radicalism-ebook\/dp\/B0863BL3MW\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+End+of+Innocence%3F+Indonesian+Islam+and+the+Temptations+of+Radicalism\u0026amp;qid=1585545827\u0026amp;sr=8-1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/amazon-logo_black.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: 30px; display: inline;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/sg\/en\/ebook\/the-end-of-innocence-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/Screen_Shot_2020-03-25_at_10.32.55_AM.png?v=1585103583\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/3236262\/the-end-of-innocence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/OverDrive_Logo_445x65_rgb_small.png?5880839130372297062\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the Western imagination. Indonesia, home to a peaceful version of Islam, offered a reassuring counter-model to a rowdy and accusatory Arab Islam. Since 1999, however, confrontations between Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas, excesses of vigilantism in Sulawesi, and espcially the Bali and Jakarta bombings have shattered these simplistic stereotypes. For many terrorism experts - often self-proclaimed - Indonesia's mutation confirmed the hackneyed thesis that equated obscurantism with Islam, and saw violent outbreaks as an inevitable consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e is far removed from the hollow analyses underlying this essentialist thesis. The book positions the evolution of Indonesian Islam in the broader context of the recent history of the archipelago, and provides a rigorous analysis of the origins and causes of the 'radical temptation,' deciphering its simplistic ideology and showing how it has been nourished by political manipulation. The authors, both historians specializing in Indonesian Islam, describe the hold of religious extremism as well as the strong resistance it has provoked in a country that has quickly become one of the key spots in the upheavals occuring throughout the Muslim world\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The authors are well-informed, and their text is authoritative, comprehensive, and - most importantly - highly detailed in its analysis of Indonesia's varying Islamic perspectives, their political influence, and the growth and impact of Islamist groups. Feillard and Madinier decipher the ideologies of these groups and document their growth, impact, and manipulation by political parties, governments, and the military.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eJohn G Taylor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Carefully researched and engagingly argued, this book is the finest available in Muslim politics in Indonesia today. It speaks clearly yet brilliantly to issues of importance across the whole of the Muslim world.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eRobert W Hefner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRémy Madinier\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and co-director of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE-EHESS).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrée Feillard\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Researcher on Indonesian political Islam at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, and vice-director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies in Paris. She also leads the axis \"Islam of the Far East\" at the Institute of Studies on Islam and the Muslim World (IISM), of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e270 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-512-5\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cscript src=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/3236262\/sample-embed?slug=the-end-of-innocence\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245108104,"sku":"9789971695125","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695125.jpeg?v=1426584693"},{"product_id":"the-way-that-lives-in-the-heart","title":"The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Jean DeBernardi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Way That Lives in the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The study focuses on popular religious culture and spirit mediumship, a form of ritual practice of great antiquity that remains important in southern China and in Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with a discussion of taken-for-granted patterns of action and interpretation that offer a way for individuals to understand and control their fate, luck, prosperity, and health in the quest for a good life. Four detailed case studies show how different spirit mediums derive individualized teachings and practices from a common set of symbolic and ethnical traditions. One concerns a \u003cem\u003enyonya\u003c\/em\u003e (local Chinese) woman possessed by Malay animist spirits, the second a locally-born and English-educated Chinese master versed in theosophy and Theravada Buddhism, the third a man born in China who synthesizes teachings from Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, and the fourth a group of socially marginal individuals who use a religious anti-language and unique rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy conveying both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and modify these practices within the time and space of their own lives, The Way That Lives in the Heart provides an important perspective on the study of living religious traditions that are not counted among the major world religions, but which for many are part of the fabric of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The greatest success of this book are its wealth of matieral, and its ability to treat the god-in-medium seriously as an anthropological subject...DeBernardi has provided an interesting and richly detailed sequel (or perhaps prequel) to her 2004 volume and demonstrated yet again that some of the most fascinating developments in Chinese religion occur outside of China.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eThomas Dubois\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Debernardi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her areas of specialization include Chinese in Southeast Asia; the anthropology of religion; and ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on Chinese popular religion in Malaysia and Singapore and her publications include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/cantonese-society-in-china-and-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eCantonese Society in China and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/penang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ePenang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e392 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-417-3\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245108216,"sku":"9789971694173","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Jean_DeBernardi_Cover.jpg?v=1427445634"},{"product_id":"madurese-seafarers","title":"Madurese Seafarers: Prahus, Timber and Illegality on the Margins of the Indonesian State","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Kurt Stenross\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Madurese are one of the great maritime and trading peoples of the Indonesian Archipelago. This remarkable study takes readers into the coastal villages of Madura, where the distinctive traditional vessels were powered by sail until the late twentieth century. It examines informal-sector economic niches, notably the cattle, salt and timber trades and the carriage of people. The author argues that the ecology and demography of Madura, the nature of village society, cultural traditions of frugality and self-reliance, and an appetite for risk all contributed to the success of the Madurese as maritime entrepreneurs. During Suharto's New Order, Madurese seafarers prospered through their role in the booming timber trade between Kalimantan and Java, adopting quasi-legal methods and exercising great ingenuity to circumvent state-imposed laws and regulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on data collected during visits to remote ports and unlicensed sawmills in Kalimantan, prahu harbors in Java, and 'wild' beach ports in Madura, \u003cem\u003eMadurese Seafarers\u003c\/em\u003e explores the inner workings of Madurese maritime trade during a critical period of change that brought these village-based maritime transporters and traders into conflict with the modern Indonesian state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMadurese Seafarers\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of solid research--undertaken over decades--that shows us how the lived experience of others can function literally right outside of our sight. Not many people probably know of the Madurese contribution to the Indonesian economy, or to its shadow equivalent (the black market in illegal transited wood). After reading this book, however, we all will have a better idea of how the economy of the world's largest archipelagic nation functions, and the people at the graophical center of it who help make it all run.\" - Eric Tagliacozzo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKurt STENROSS\u003c\/strong\u003e has been studying the sailing craft of Indonesia since 1974. Holder of a PhD from Murdoch University and a skilled carpenter, he lives in Banbury, Western Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"series\"\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2011\u003cbr\u003e316 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-520-0\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245108668,"sku":"9789971695200","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695200.jpeg?v=1426584725"},{"product_id":"contestations-of-memory-in-southeast-asia","title":"Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971695064');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContestations of Memory in Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered events in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on European examples and unresolved memory issues in East and Southeast Asia, the authors show how comparative study of the interpenetration of politics and lived bodily experience, of communal and personal memories, and of dominant and suppressed narratives, can yield insights into the human potential to become either perpetrators, victims or bystanders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe memories found within different groups in any society are open to negotiation, suppression, contestation, or revision in the ever-evolving politics of the present. The searching and close-grained analyses of contemporary issues found in the volume vividly illustrate the essentially plural and multivocal nature of social memories, and demonstrate the intricate connection between transnational, national and sub-national politics. Readers seeking a more nuanced and complex understanding of the past and of its continued relevance to the present and future, will find here much food for thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In addition to the inspiring theoretical engagement with memory studies across disciplines and the important discussion of the ethics of the historian, Waterson and Kwok have collected a series of essays that reflect how language, memorial and the aims of politics shape our understandings of historical memory as societies and as individuals...a well-researched, provocative engagement with history and politics of contemporary Southeast Asia, worthy of further discussion in classrooms across the disciplines.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eWilliam B Noseworthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Contestations of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fine addition to any library. Its contributors' deft use of theoretical and empirical data comes together in an intriguing look at memory, postcoloniality, and the ongoing process of nation-building in Southeast Asia. It would be an appropriate volume for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as a valuable item of reference for those interested in social memory, nationalism, postcoloniality, or identity and trauma in Southeast Asia.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMichael Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Its contributors’ deft use of theoretical and empirical data comes together in an intriguing look at memory, postcoloniality, and the ongoing process of nation-building in Southeast Asia” - Kevin Blackburn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoxana Waterson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. Her other publications include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/paths-and-rivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaths and Rivers: Sa'dan Toraja Society in Transformation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/southeast-asian-lives\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eSoutheast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKWOK Kian-Woon\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Division of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2012\u003cbr\u003e250 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-506-4\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245108996,"sku":"9789971695064","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695064.jpeg?v=1426584746"},{"product_id":"development-professionals-in-northern-thailand","title":"Development Professionals in Northern Thailand: Hope, Politics and Power","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Katharine McKinnon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Development\" promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and values. A former volunteer and development specialist who spent much of her childhood in the region, Katharine McKinnon set out to consider what has gone wrong by studying professionals involved in development work. How, she asks, did the highlands come to be seen as needing development? And why did the presence of well-intentioned developers still leave behind so much apparent misery and hardship?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturning to the region to conduct an ethnography of development professionals, McKinnon found that the majority were dedicated to ideals of altruism, emancipation and advocacy for local people, and resigned to the inevitable failures and shortcomings that emerge when development efforts are co-opted by geopolitics. Her book is an account of the everyday efforts and struggles of those who 'do' development - consultants, researchers, government officials, NGO workers and village partners. Taking a critical approach to post-development theory, she argues that politics and ideology are an intrinsic part of development work, and argues that an active engagement with the politics of development is essential for professionals hoping to make a difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[McKinnon s book] offers a new way of doing post-development work through an historical ethnography of development professionals working in northern Thailand...Stimulating food for thought.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eKathleen O Reilly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"A tour-de-force of description and ethnographic analysis...McKinnon’s analysis is a valuable contribution to the analysis of Thailand, and debates about participatory development management.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eTim Forsyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"McKinnon succeeds in producing new insight...The book will be a great addition to any graduate seminars on development geographies, uneven development, social theory, and organisation studies because of its ability to articulate with clarity a post-development and post-structural perspective on development.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eSean Tanner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatharine MCKINNON\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lecturer in the human geography program at Macquarie University, Sydney, where she teaches Asia-Pacific development and geographic theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"series\"\u003eAsian Studies Association of Australia: Southeast Asian Publications Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2012\u003cbr\u003e280 pages, 229mm x 153mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-522-4\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245109156,"sku":"9789971695224","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695224.jpeg?v=1426584755"},{"product_id":"modern-thai-buddhism-and-buddhadasa-bhikku","title":"Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadasa Bhikku: A Social History","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Tomomi Ito\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Buddhist monk Buddhasdasa Bhikku (1906-1993) injected fresh life into Thai Buddhism by exploring and teaching little known transcendent aspects of the religion. His investigations excited both monks and lay people, and gave rise to the vigourous discussion in shops, temple yards and newly founded Buddhist associations. Moreover, he was a prolific author, who produced a rich array of publications that are indicative of his popularity and the impact of his teachings. While these discussions included serious exchanges on doctrine and practice, they also included jokes and light humor, criticisms of weak evidence for certain positions, and a defamation campaign arising from rumors that Buddhadasa was a communist sympathizer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuddhadasa's thoughts and historical context coincide with the general picture of \"modern Buddhism\" and he may be seen as an agent of \"Buddhist modernity,\" but he worked predominantly in Thailand through the medium of the Thai language, and he contributed much more significantly to Thai Buddhists than to Buddhist practice outside the country. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn enormous amount of material relating to Buddhadasa Bhikkhu has been captured in religious journals and in numerous \"pocket books\" aimed at a general audience. Departing from the classical method of studying Buddhism through philology, Tomomi Ito's account of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu draws on this popular literature and on conversations with a broad spectrum of the people involved in these discussions to develop an account of Buddhism as it is experienced by Thai people. The result is a lively intellectual and social history of contemporary Thai religion and society built around the life of an exceptional monk who captured the interest of Buddhists pursuing spiritual depth in the context of the ideological conflicts of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Caption2\"\u003e\"A welcome contribution...An excellent contribution to Buddhist Studies.\" - \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eMonica Lindberg Falk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"[Ito’s book] offer[s], for the first time, an honest, non-hagiographical, study of Buddhadãsa...It would make a wonderful addition to courses on modern Southeast Asian history and religion, and force people to rethink the way they have read the work of Buddhadãsa Bhikkhu.\" - \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eJustin McDaniel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"...should be considered a fundamental reference book not only by those who want to know Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu better, but also by scholars of Thai history and people interested in Southeast Asia...an extraordinary chance to penetrate the history of Thailand and to understand Southeast Asia and its position in the political events of the 20th century.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eClaudio Cicuzza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“...this book provides a perceptive account of the profound impact Buddhad\u003cspan\u003eã\u003c\/span\u003esa has had on many aspects of Thai Buddhism. It fills some important gaps in Buddhad\u003cspan\u003eã\u003c\/span\u003e sa-related scholarship and therefore deserves to be read by those interested in Theravada and Thai Buddhist studies as well as by scholars of Thai and Southeast Asian history.”- Jordan Baskerville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e\"Apart from her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 22px;\"\u003emeticulous\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e and thorough research, Ito deserves high praise for her innovative approach - introducing the concept of the Buddhist Public Sphere to the study of a well researched in the history of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 22px;\"\u003eThai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e Buddhism.\" - Susanne Ryuyin Kerekes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTomomi Ito\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Graduate School and Faculty of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2012\u003cbr\u003e360 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-572-9\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245111020,"sku":"9789971695729","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695729.jpeg?v=1426584823"},{"product_id":"global-movements-local-concerns","title":"Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Laurence Monnais and Harold J. Cook\u003cbr\u003eContributions by Thomas B. Colvin, C. Michele Thompson, Liew Kai Khiun, Annick Guénel, Raquel A.G. Reyes, Liesbeth Hesselink, Ooi Keat Gin, Michael G. Vann, Huang Yu-Ling, Ayo Wahlberg, Chatichai Muksong and Komatra Chuengsatiansup\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, colonial interests, governments and policies, international interventions, and by a wide range of health agents and intermediaries. 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Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called \"Malay\", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as the basis of membership within an aspiring postcolonial nation-state, a political rather than a cultural community embracing all residents of the Malay states, including the immigrant Chinese and Indian population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMelayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness\u003c\/em\u003e, the contributors examine the checkered, wavering and changeable understanding of the word Melayu by considering hitherto unexplored case studies dealing with use of the term in connection with origins, nations, minority-majority politics, Filipino Malays, Riau Malays, Orang Asli, Straits Chinese literature, women's veiling, vernacular television, social dissent, literary women, and modern Sufism. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a creative approach to the study of Malayness while providing new perspectives to the studies of identity formation and politics of ethnicity that have wider implications beyond the Southeast Asian region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What the volume does successfully is examine, though not obsessively so, those populations at the margins. This in turn enables something useful to be said about the ways in which ethnic categories are debated, questioned, rejected, constructed, and transformed. This is a thought-provoking collection and deserves our fullest attention.\" - \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eV T King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"This volume adds valuable new perspectives to Melayu studies by focusing on Malayness in the margins...It convincingly demonstrates that Melayu persists and thrives in contemporary culture. Further, it shows that Malayness has important stakes for ordinary people.\" - \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eAndrew Weintraub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaznah Mohamad\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Departments of Malay Studies and Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. She was formerly Associate Professor of Development Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of Science Malaysia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSyed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2012\u003cbr\u003e410 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-555-2\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cscript src=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/3236255\/sample-embed?slug=melayu\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245111164,"sku":"9789971695552","price":42.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695552.jpeg?v=1426584833"},{"product_id":"chinas-left-behind-wives","title":"China's Left-Behind Wives: Families of Migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy Huifen Shen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971695613');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eChina's Left-Behind Wives\u003c\/em\u003e, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Some were married and others returned to marry, but they routinely left their wives in China to handle family affairs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, local gazetteers, newspapers and periodicals, the author describes the experiences of left-behind wives in the Quanzhou region of Fujian from the 1930s to the 1950s, a time when war and political change caused customary practices to break down. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigrant marriages were nearly always arranged, and girls rarely met their husbands before the wedding. Normally a bride lived with her new husband for just a few weeks or months, after which he went abroad. The circumstances in the 1940s and 1950s were such that many of these young women rarely, or never, saw their husbands again. When the Pacific War cut off communications, the loss of remittance money meant that they faced a difficult struggle for survival. The war's end brought a brief respite, but the communist ascendency led to further difficult adjustments. Ultimately, the experiences of the left-behind wives drew them into public life and business, and as Overseas Chinese policies, and attitudes towards women, changed in China, they came to play an increasingly significant part in the processes of development and modernization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Caption1\"\u003e\"Successful...The large amounts of statistical data compiled and analyzed in this book alone will be beneficial for those who are interested in structural change in [Asia], not only of its agriculture, but also of the economy and society in general.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eNicole Newendrop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"Shen’s book is pivotal in helping researchers understand Chinese migration from another perspective and shed light on the experiences of the ‘left-behind wives’ in China.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eJason Lim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The book is very well organised, and every chapter is interspersed with colour photographs of typical Hokkien buildings in Quanzhou, early family letters sent from Southeast Asia, interview records, and news clippings taken from local archives and early newspapers... This is a well-researched book on the qiaoxiang of south China that fills an important gap in the study of Chinese emigration.” - James Chin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHEN Huifen\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor in the Research School for Southeast Asian Studies and Faculty of International Relations at Xiamen University, China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2012\u003cbr\u003e272 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-561-3\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245111212,"sku":"9789971695613","price":38.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695613.jpeg?v=1426584835"},{"product_id":"questioning-modernity-in-indonesia-and-malaysia","title":"Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. 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The book argues that while Indonesia and Malaysia can both be considered fully modern, their modernities are not merely derivative of the Western understanding of the word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by scholars from both \"inside\" and \"outside\" the region, the case studies presented in this volume highlight the extent to which the intellectual tools, concepts, and theories commonly used in academic research reflect a European\/Western modernist imaginary. Starting from the premise that modernity viewed from a local rather than a Western perspective takes on different qualities, the authors show how the process of conducting social research in Asia might be re-conceptualized on the basis of a revised understanding of this crucial idea. Their essays make a compelling case for the need to re-assess the application of a supposedly \"Western\" concept to the study of Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...it will make useful reading material for academics who teach theoretical analysis. Students of area studies will also find this volume a good read.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eJennifer Yang Hui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel S. KAHN\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at La Trobe University. 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The process does not end there, for the new context offers yet another set of ingredients and culinary traditions, and the \"embedding and fusing of foods\" continues, creating additional hybrid forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by scholars whose deep familiarity with Chinese cuisine is both personal and academic, \u003cem\u003eChinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that anyone who has been fortunate enough to encounter Southeast Asian food will savour, and it provides a window on this world for those who have yet to discover it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"... Most importantly, virtually all of the contributors are Southeast Asian Chinese, and their chapters are complex culinary autobiographies based on first-hand experience. 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This focus on a regional economy of transcultural production provides an important corrective to the limitations of previous studies that consider cultural products as text and use them to investigate the \"meaning\" of popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...another valuable entry to the currently burgeoning academic field of Asian media and cultural studies. It engages with a number of important historical and cultural subjects by presenting new conceptual methods for understanding processes of international cultural production in the region.\" - \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eNikky Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNissim OTMAZGIN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies and a Research Fellow at the Harry S. 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