Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos Rosalie Stolz Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. At one point in Rosalie Stolz’s fieldwork in Laos, the people of Pliya village told her “Paa hooc nɨŋ eem, nɨŋ khəəy” (You now know the wife-givers and […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam Thy Phu Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. At long last, a book-length study of Vietnamese multi-genre photography! Vietnam commanded the world’s attention with its spectacle of violence and destruction during its war years. Viewers then, who are now […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia Al Khanif and Khoo Ying Hooi, eds. New York: Routledge, 2023. The topic of human rights for marginalized people in Southeast Asia is gaining more exposure in contemporary discourse. Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia, edited by […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama Eric Tagliacozzo Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. In Asian Waters is Eric Tagliacozzo’s third volume of a trilogy that begins with the illicit trade in Southeast Asia, then “expands” to a second volume on Southeast Asians […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Dynastic Democracy: Political Families in Thailand Yoshinori Nishizaki Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Summary In Dynastic Democracy, Nishizaki Yoshinori shows that political families exist in Thailand and that they are important. The author defines a “political family” as (1) a family that has produced […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Community Movements in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages Ryoko Nishii and Shigeharu Tanabe, eds. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2022. In Community Movements in Southeast Asia, Nishii Ryoko and Tanabe Shigeharu center the idea of community movements as forms of assemblages in which power […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise, deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) Ge Song Paris: Archipel (Hors-Série 1), 2021. Song Ge’s Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise, deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) is a detailed study of the translations of […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957 John Ingleson Honolulu: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University of Hawai‘i Press, 2022. The Indonesian labor movement, which was active between the Dutch recognition of Indonesian sovereignty in December 1949 and the […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Becoming a Crisis: Shifting Narratives of Seasonal Air Pollution in Northern Thailand (1996–2019) Olivier Evrard*, and Mary Mostafanezhad** *French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), Mixed Research Unit PALOC (Patrimoines Locaux et Globalisation), 43 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France Corresponding author’s e-mail: olivier.evrard[at]ird.fr https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-2463 […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Political Censorship and the Contestation of Nation-Building Discourse: A Survey of Cultural Productions regarding the Malayan Communist Struggle in Malaysia After 2000 Kuan Chee Wah* *Academy of Film, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lee Shau Kee Communication and Visual Arts Building, 5 […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 How to Frame Hybrid-Syncretic Religious Situations: Based on a Case Study of the Guanyin Cult in Yunnan, China Nagatani Chiyoko* *長谷千代子, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan e-mail: cnagatani[at]scs.kyushu-u.ac.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1895-3750 DOI: 10.20495/seas.12.2_269 This article examines the […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Family Structure in Early Modern Vietnam: A Case Study of Villages around Huế Ueda Shinya* *上田新也, Thang Long Institution of Cognition and Education Studies, Thang Long University, Nghiem Xuan Yem, Dai Kim, Hoang Mai Hanoi 11718, Viet Nam e-mail: uedashinya_vnjp[at]yahoo.co.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3797-1399 Due to space limitations, […]