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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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 […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh Patrick Daly, R. Michael Feener, and Anthony Reid, eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, xxxi+262p. On the book cover, the words “Lebih baik disini kampung kita sendiri” are scrawled on a wall of […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Megan C. Thomas Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 277p. In Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism, Megan C. Thomas illustrates the myriad political meanings […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia Erik Martinez Kuhonta Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, xxiii+342p. The Institutional Imperative provides an argument for equitable development, that is, economic growth with income equality. The research is conducted through a comparative-historical approach with […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon 1916–1930 Philippe M. F. Peycam New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, xiii+306p. The early 1920s in Saigon saw a florescence of newspaper publishing in the lively tradition of Parisian canards of the 1890s. French and Vietnamese language […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Imperata Grassland Mapping in Northern Uplands of Lao PDR: Area, Distribution, Characteristics, and Implications for Slash-and-Burn Cultivation Bounthanh Keoboualapha,* Thaworn Onpraphai,** Attachai Jintrawet,** Suchint Simaraks,* and Anan Polthanee* *ບຸນທັນ ແກ້ວບົວລະພາ; สุจินต์ สิมารักษ์; อนันต์ พลธานี System Approaches in Agriculture Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Talun-Huma, Swidden Agriculture, and Rural Economy in West Java, Indonesia Mizuno Kosuke,* Siti Sugiah Mugniesyah,** Ageng Setiawan Herianto,*** and Tsujii Hiroshi† *水野広祐, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Corresponding author’s email: mizuno[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp **Department of Communication and Community Development Sciences, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Agrometeorological Learning Increasing Farmers’ Knowledge in Coping with Climate Change and Unusual Risks Yunita T. Winarto,* Kees Stigter,** Bimo Dwisatrio,* Merryna Nurhaga,* and Anom Bowolaksono*** *Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia e-mails: yunita.winarto[at]gmail.com (corresponding author); bimo.dwisatrio[at]gmail.com; merryna21st[at]gmail.com […]
Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Emergent Processes of Language Acquisition: Japanese Language Learning and the Consumption of Japanese Cultural Products in Thailand Noboru Toyoshima* *豊島 昇 , Institute of Asian Studies, Organization for Asian Studies, Waseda University, 513 Waseda Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0041, Japan e-mail: nobo[at]suou.waseda.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.2.2_285 Motivation for learning […]