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 […]
SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Book Review
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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. 1 Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage, Volume 1 Angkor in France. From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage, Volume 2 Angkor in Cambodia. From Jungle Find to Global Icon Michael Falser Boston: De Gruyter Art & Architecture, 2019. […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 1 The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte Vicente L. Rafael Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. Vicente L. Rafael begins his most recent book, The Sovereign Trickster, with a personal story about once meeting the former Philippine President, and subject […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 1 The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926–1941 Takashi Shiraishi Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2021. Policing the Phantom or Phantomizing the Police? The Political in the Age of Digul Shiraishi Takashi’s The Phantom World of Digul, […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 1 The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899–1901 John Scott Reed Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. John Scott Reed’s 302-page book outlines the achievements of the United States Volunteers (USV) during the Philippine-American War of 1899–1902, America’s most successful counterinsurgency […]