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 […]
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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: […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Blocking the Path of Feral Pigs with Rotten Bamboo: The Role of Upland Peoples in the Crisis of a Tay Polity in Southwest Yunnan, 1792 to 1836 Christian Daniels* *Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3-11-1 […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 From Tea to Temples and Texts: Transformation of the Interfaces of Upland-Lowland Interaction on the China-Myanmar Border Kojima Takahiro* and Nathan Badenoch** *小島敬裕, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: kojima[at]cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.2.1_95 **Hakubi Center […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Becoming Stateless: Historical Experience and Its Reflection on the Concept of State among the Lahu in Yunnan and Mainland Southeast Asian Massif Kataoka Tatsuki* *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. 2, No. 1 Mountain People in the Muang: Creation and Governance of a Tai Polity in Northern Laos Nathan Badenoch* and Tomita Shinsuke** *Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Corresponding author’s e-mail: baideanach[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.2.1_29 **富田晋介, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Introduction: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia Christian Daniels* *Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, Japan e-mail: cdani[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.2.1_5 I Purpose Scholars are beginning to […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 1 Note from Editorial Committee The central concern of this special issue is to challenge the state-centered paradigm and to reconsider the place of people in the geographical margins of continental Southeast Asia in history. Much recent literature on the region has dealt with borderlands and […]