Yearly Archives: 2016

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia: Energy Consumption and Urban Air-Conditioning Marlyne Sahakian New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, x–xviii+229p. This book offers insights into some critical areas of social and environmental aspects of the sustainable development paradigm. While being focused on south-east Asia (SEA), and in […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, and Jean Michaud Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015, 223p. By choosing to work on the livelihoods of one ethnic group, the Hmong, on both sides of the international Sino-Vietnamese border, this […]

The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty Philip Taylor Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, 350p. The Khmer minority of Vietnam, which is indigenous to the Mekong Delta, has long been a bone of contention between the Vietnamese and Cambodian states. From the perspective of the Vietnamese, the delta region […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Beyond Oligarchy: Wealth, Power and Contemporary Indonesian Politics Michele Ford and Thomas B. Pepinsky, eds. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2014, x+178p. The end of the Suharto regime in 1998 liberated Indonesia’s population in a variety of ways: it opened the door to democratic […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations Andrew C. Willford Singapore: NUS Press, 2015, 336p. In Tamils and the Haunting of Justice, Andrew Willford explores the questions of justice and retribution confronting Malaysian Tamils as they face eviction from their […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions & the Making of a Filipino Universal Deirdre de la Cruz Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, 320p. In March 1989, a transgender woman named Judiel Nieva reported that the Virgin Mary appeared to her atop a guava tree in […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts Farouk Yahya Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015, xxvii+349p., 308 illus., 2 maps A fully developed scholarly source for illustrated manuscripts dealing with humans, life, the future, beliefs, death, and so on, is much needed by arts, religious, cultural, […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  Luzon at War: Contradictions in Philippine Society, 1898–1902 (with an introduction by Vicente L. Rafael) Milagros Camayon Guerrero Quezon City: Anvil Publishing Inc., 2015, 295p. Luzon at War has been long in coming. As a dissertation at the University of Michigan in 1977, it has […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand, Inspired by Craig J. Reynolds Maurizio Peleggi, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2015, 208p. When a stellar cast gathers for the festschrift, the result is both a thoughtful reflection […]

Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3  BOOK REVIEWS From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia A. C. S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, xvi+348p. This edited volume in the Proceedings of the British Academy series is comprised of 14 chapters covering interactions between the two […]