ISBN:
0415683459
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9780203123126
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9780415683456
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 204 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Modern anthropology of South-East Asia
Series Statement:
The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power
DDC:
303.30959
Keywords:
Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works from the ground up, portraying Southeast Asians' own perspectives, conceptualizations and experiences of power through empirically rich case studies. Exploring concepts of power in diverse settings, from the stratagems of Indonesian politicians and the aspirations of marginal Lao bureaucrats, to mass 'P
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Southeast Asian Perspectiveson Power; Copyright; Content; Figures; Note on contributors; Foreword: In search of power in Southeast Asia; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Power and orientation in Southeast Asia; 2. The subject of power in Southeast Asia; 3. Power, protection and perfectibility: Aspiration and materiality in Thailand; 4. Sakti reconsidered: Power and the disenchantment of the world; 5. Landscape, power and agency in Eastern Indonesia; 6. The symbolic appropriation of war-made objects by the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia
Description / Table of Contents:
7. The anthropology of a necessary mistake: The unsettled dead and the imagined state in contemporary Singapore8. Privateers, politicians, prowess and power; 9. Bureaucratic migrants and the potential of prosperity in upland Laos; 10. Living on the horizon of the everlasting present: Power, planning and the emergence of baroque forms of life in urban Malaysia; 11. Apparitions of sapiocracy: Vietnam's emergent welfare state and the restless dead of Thanh Ha; 12. From the power of prayer to prayer power: On religion and revolt in the modern Philippines; Filmography; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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