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 […]
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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 […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity Kah Seng Loh, Edgar Liao, Cheng Tju Lim, and Guo-Quan Seng Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, 347p., with bibliography and index. This book examines the history of the University Socialist Club (USC) […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Mapping the Acehnese Past R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly, and Anthony Reid, eds. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011, xvi+292p. One of the underlying themes in this edited volume on Aceh is that “a fresh look at the . . . archives suggests that new histories can […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body Sonja van Wichelen New York: Routledge, 2010, xxvi+154p. Democratization and Islamization are the two most important developments that are shaping and influencing the socio-political landscape of Post-Suharto Indonesia. As the biggest Muslim majority country in […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The “Other” Karen in Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012, xxxii+197p. For decades, the face of the Karen people to the outside world has been rebels fighting the Government of the Union of Myanmar. The year […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Southeast Asian Independent Cinema Tilman Baumgärtel, ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 304p. The prolific production of independent films in one of the fastest growing economic regions of the world impels filmmakers, critics, and scholars to seriously study Southeast Asian (hereon referred as […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea Paige West Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012, xvii+316p., with illustrations, endnotes, and index. If you’re reading this with a cup of fair-trade, organically grown, single-origin coffee in your […]