Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 A Study of the Hồi giáo Religion in Vietnam: With a Reference to Islamic Religious Practices of Cham Bani Yasuko Yoshimoto* * 吉本康子, National Museum of Ethnology, 10-1 Senri-Expo Park, Suita-city, Osaka 565-8511, Japan e-mail: yoshimotoysk[at]hotmail.co.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.3_487 This paper examines Hồi giáo, a state-recognized […]
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Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Tai Buddhist Practices in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan, China Religion as Non-religion: The Place of Chinese Temples in Phuket, Southern Thailand Tatsuki Kataoka* * 片岡 樹, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi- cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: kataoka[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Two Versions of Buddhist Karen History of the Late British Colonial Period in Burma: Kayin Chronicle (1929) and Kuyin Great Chronicle (1931) Kazuto Ikeda* * 池田一人, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, Japan e-mail: residue[at]nifty.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.3_431 The majority of the […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Tai Buddhist Practices in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan, China Takahiro Kojima* * 小島敬裕，Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: kojima[at]cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.3_395 This paper will explore the religious practices of Theravada Buddhists in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Buddhism on the Border: Shan Buddhism and Transborder Migration in Northern Thailand Tadayoshi Murakami* * 村上忠良 Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, 8-1-1 Aomatani-Higashi, Minoh, Osaka 562-8558, Japan e-mail: mrkmthai[at]ang.osaka-u.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.3_365 This paper examines the transformation of Shan Buddhism in the border […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Introduction: De-institutionalizing Religion in Southeast Asia Tatsuki Kataoka* * 片岡 樹，Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi- cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: kataoka[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.3_361 “Religion” is a controversial term in the contemporary academic world. In non-Western societies especially, […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Cashing in across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Thein Swe and Paul ChambersChiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2011, xx+192p. This book is an interim report on the Thailand-China border trade and particularly on two roads constructed under the Greater […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle Bertil Lintner and Michael BlackChiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009, xii+180p. In recent years, amphetamine type substances (ATS) have become the most widely used illegal narcotic drugs in Mainland Southeast Asia. These substances contain the medicinal […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia Andrew Walker, ed.Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009, 261p. In the current period of intensified globalization, reconstructing community is one of the most important issues for the study of society in the modern world. Andrew […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture John Clifford HoltHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009, 368p. Current studies on the religious culture of Lao ethnic groups began with S. J. Tambiah’s structural-functionalistic analysis (1970) and have progressed mainly through Tiyavanich’s biographical study on the […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Moving Mountains: Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos Jean Michaud and Tim Forsyth, eds.Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011, xvi+235p. “When the Government is Asleep” Moving Mountains is a nicely edited collection of papers relating to diverse situations in the uplands of […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Why Periodic Markets Are Held: Considering Products, People, and Place in the Yunnan-Vietnam Border Area Nishitani Masaru* and Nathan Badenoch** *西谷 大, National Museum of Japanese History, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, National Institutes for the Humanities, 117 Jonai-cho, Sakura City, Chiba 285-8502, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: […]