Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2023. The edited collection Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour is an important milestone in bringing the insights of […]
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Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia Katharine E. McGregor Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. The issue of “comfort women” is about the history of sexual violence and Japan’s military-enforced slavery system in Asia. At the same time, it touches on issues […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred Jane M. Ferguson Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Since its independence in 1948, Myanmar has not experienced prolonged political stability either with respect to relations between ethnic groups or with respect to civil-military relations. One could […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening—and Closing Erin Murphy Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies, 2022. The United States has diverse national interests and poses strategic threats in several Asian states, with significant diplomatic, economic, security, and geopolitical implications. China’s rising power challenges the […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory Kevin Blackburn Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. Kevin Blackburn’s The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory broadens understanding of “comfort women”1) by uncovering the “disappeared” collective memory of Singapore as a onetime “centre for comfort […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Jonathan Padwe Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories delves into the relationship the Jarai of Tang Kadon village have forged with their land as it has been tested through […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia Holly High, ed. Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. While Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia initially introduces itself rather humbly as an examination of “stone veneration in mainland Southeast Asia” (p. 5), it quickly expands into a […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Faizah Zakaria Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. The accolades for Faizah Zakaria’s The Camphor Tree and the Elephant (on the publisher’s website)—“Absolutely fantastic” and “Insightful work on such […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Negotiation under Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of Mangrove Shrimp Farming in Vietnam Watanabe Hiroki* and Ubukata Fumikazu** *渡邉大樹, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 3-1-1, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: pt0e5qtc[at]s.okayama-u.ac.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7817-4543 **生方史数, Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Where Do the Ravenous Spirits (Phi Pop) Go? Nakasang Village in Southern Laos as a Place of Cultural Healing Ian G. Baird* *Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 N. Park St. Madison, WI, USA 53706 e-mail: ibaird[at]wisc.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-2485 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.1_109 Spirits are ubiquitous and […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Appropriating State Techniques for Effective Rituals: Funerals of the Raglai in Contemporary Vietnam Kang Yanggu* *康陽球, National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park 10-1, Suita City, Osaka 565-8511, Japan e-mail: ygkang926[at]gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3778-1168 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.1_73 Since the relaxation of religious regulations in Vietnam in the 1990s, […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Narrative and Framing of a Pandemic: Public Health Communication in the Vietnamese Public Sphere Mirjam Le* and Franziska Susana Nicolaisen** *Chair of Development Politics, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, University of Passau, Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 14 d 94032 Passau, Germany Corresponding author’s e-mail: mirjam.le[at]united-le.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8611-8445 **Chair […]