Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Origins and Evolution of Environmental Policies: State, Time and Regional Experiences Tadayoshi Terao and Tsuruyo Funatsu, eds.Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. Since the 1990s, the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE)—one of the established social-science research centers in Japan specializing in studies of developing […]
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Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Fashionable Traditions: Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion Ayami Nakatani, ed.Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. The idea of tradition has been challenged frequently since Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger’s seminal work in 1983. This volume of 14 essays is based on studies of textiles from India, Japan, […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand Scott StoningtonOakland: University of California Press, 2020. The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand aims to understand how people achieve making death good within the increasingly common global coexistence of Western biomedicine […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Places for Happiness: Community, Self, and Performance in the Philippines William PetersonHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. An early transnational experience of witnessing cultural dances from the Philippines, through his late Filipino American boyfriend whose life was cut short by a pandemic in the early […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Activists in Transition: Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford, eds.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2019. For its sheer size and diversity, Indonesia is a country that the world cannot simply ignore. Containing the world’s fourth-biggest […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Local Names of Fishes in a Fishing Village on the Bank of the Middle Reaches of the Kampar River, Riau, Sumatra Island, Indonesia Nakagawa Hikaru,1 Osawa Takamasa,2 Akhwan Binawan,3 Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi,4 Hasegawa Takuya,5 Desti Zarli Mandari,6 Nofrizal,7 Wahyu Prasetyawan,8 and Okamoto Masaaki9 1 中川 光, […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Livelihood and Happiness in a Resource (Natural and Cultural)-Rich Rural Municipality in the Philippines Rosalina Palanca-Tan* and Sheila Bayog** *Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila 1107, Philippines Corresponding author’s e-mail: rtan[at]ateneo.edu **Research Center, Notre […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Soeara ‘Aisjijah Magazine and the Preparation of Indonesian Muslim Women to Anticipate the Arrival of Japanese Occupation Forces (1941–1942) Muhammad Yuanda Zara* *History Study Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yogyakarta State University, Jalan Colombo, Catur Tunggal, Depok, Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia e-mail: […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Development and Abandonment of Mangrove Paddy Fields and the Impacts Thereof in a Mon Village in Taninthayi Region, Myanmar Win Maung Aye* and Takeda Shinya** *ဝင်းမောင်အေး, Forest Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Consservation, Myanmar, Office No. 39, Director General’s Office of Forest Department, […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 3 Ghosts as Political Possibilities: A Review of Instantiations of Haunting in Southeast Asia Joy Xin Yuan Wang* *Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RF, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland e-mail: xyw22[at]cam.ac.uk DOI: 10.20495/seas.10.3_339 In Southeast Asia, […]
Published in December, 2021 CONTENTS Articles Ghosts as Political Possibilities: A Review of Instantiations of Haunting in Southeast Asia ・・・ Joy Xin Yuan Wang Development and Abandonment of Mangrove Paddy Fields and the Impacts Thereof in a Mon Village in Taninthayi Region, Myanmar ・・・ Win Maung Aye Takeda Shinya Soeara […]