Acknowledgments-- Maps Introduction-- Part I Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities 1. Living in Indonesia with No Pleases or Thanks / Lorraine Aragon-- 2. Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective / Andrew Causey-- 3. Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos / Holly High-- 4. A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia / Judith Nagata Part II Family, Household and Livelihoods 5. Maling: A Hanunoo Girl from the Philippines / Harold Conklin-- 6. Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly-- 7. Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order / Lucien M. Hanks, Jr. Part III Crafting the Nation-State 8. Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand / Hjorleifur Jonsson-- 9. Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore / John Clammer-- 10. Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel Part IV World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Christianity 11. The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand / Sue Darlington-- 12. Javanese Women and the Veil / Nancy Smith-Hefner-- 13. Everyday Catholicism: Opening up Spaces of New Religious Experience in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele Part V Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts and Entertainment 14. Cultivating "Community" in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace / Kathleen M. Adams-- 15. The Fall of Thai Rocky / Pattana Kitiarsa-- 16. Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, and Just Living / Sandra Cate-- 17. Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam / Nir Avieli Part VI War and Recovery 18. Living with the War Dead in Vietnam / Shaun Malarney-- 19. Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism / Betsy Traube-- 20. The Question of the Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge / Eve Monique Zucker Part VII Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations 21. When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home / Chris Lyttleton-- 22. They Do Not Like To Be Confined And Told What To Do": Schooling Malaysian Indigenes / Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt and Bah Juli Edo-- 23. Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia's Borderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons-- 24. Just Below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll / Gene Ammarell Selected Film Resources-- Contributors-- Index.