Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2004

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2004

Sepoys, convicts and the 'bazaar' contingent: the emergence and exclusion of 'Hindustani' pioneers at the Singapore frontier.
February 1, 2004... Within the Indian diaspora, which makes up approximately 7 per cent of Singapore's population, two subcategories emerge as particularly salient bases for community: subdivisions based on religion and ethnic differences based on place of origin....

From blood to public office: constituting bureaucratic rulers in Colonial Malaya.
February 1, 2004... When British colonial rule was established in Malaya in the nineteenth century, it was confronted with a particular Malay mode of rule termed kerajaan (literally 'the state of having a raja'). (1) While the variations in kerajaan rule over time...

Kept in position: the Labour Front-Alliance Government of Chief Minister David Marshall in Singapore, April 1955-June 1956.
February 1, 2004... Chief Minister David Marshall's Labour Front-Alliance government evokes a certain curiosity. That a forty-seven-year-old Jewish lawyer--representing a minority in colonial Singapore, where the population was 77 per cent ethnic Chinese, 12 per...

History and the imaginaries of 'Big Singapore': positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall.
February 1, 2004... Situated in a corner off the modern Pan-Island Expressway and right above the underground Mass Rapid Transit rail line, the Sun Yat Sen Villa in Singapore has a history of more than one hundred years in a nation-state that traces its beginnings...

In the eye of the storm: the social construction of the forces of nature and the climatic and seismic construction of God in the Philippines.
February 1, 2004... The idea that the forces of Nature are at the service of divine command and that the disasters caused by natural hazards are the expression of a vengeful deity permeates Judeo-Christian perceptions of the universe. (1) Such is the appeal of...

Men, masculinities and symbolic violence in recent Indonesian cinema.
February 1, 2004... According to Krishna Sen, the majority of the genres of Indonesian films are, by definition, 'about men and what the films define as men's sphere of action', and while every film has some female characters, they are 'only in subsidiary roles so...

Iranun and Balangingi. Globalization, maritime raiding and the birth of ethnicity.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Iranun and Balangingi. Globalization, maritime raiding and the birth of ethnicity By JAMES FRANCIS WARREN Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 585. Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. James Warren's...

Cultural politics and Asian values.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Cultural politics and Asian values By MICHAEL D. BARR London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xii, 241. Notes, Biography, Index. DOI: S0022463404210086 The preface of this book states that its intention is to contribute to 'the cross-cultural...

Trans-status subjects: Gender in the globalization of South and Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Trans-status subjects: Gender in the globalization of South and Southeast Asia Edited by SONITA SARKER and ESHA NIYOGI DE Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 344. Notes, Tables, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404220082 Any...

Chinese migrants abroad: Cultural, educational and social dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Chinese migrants abroad: Cultural, educational and social dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora Edited by MICHAEL W. CHARNEY, BRENDA S.A. YEOH and TONG CHEE KIONG. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. DOI: S0022463404230089 Should the...

Fluid iron: State formation in Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Fluid iron: State formation in Southeast Asia By TONY DAY Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 339. Plates, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404240085 As a historian of pre-modern Southeast Asia, I firmly applaud Tony...

A land on fire: the environmental consequences of the Southeast Asian boom.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... A land on fire: The environmental consequences of the Southeast Asian boom By JAMES DAVID FAHN. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. Pp. xv, 365. Tables, Maps, Notes, Index. DOI: S0022463404250081 James Fahn served for most of the 1990s as...

Early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia By CHARLES HIGHAM Bangkok: River Books, 2002. Pp. xv, 375, Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404260088 In the summation of his new book, representing a successor to a volume...

Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the creation of Malaysia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the creation of Malaysia By MATTHEW JONES Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 325. Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404270084...

Southeast Asia: a testament.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Southeast Asia: A testament By GEORGE MCT. KAHIN London: Routledge/Curzon, 2003. Pp. xxii, 350. Maps, Photographs, Notes, Index. DOI: S0022463404280080 Perhaps because there are so many ways in which they can turn out badly--dull,...

Kebudayaan dan pelestarian alam: Penelitian interdisipliner di pedalaman Kalimantan.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Kebudayaan dan pelestarian alam: Penelitian interdisipliner di pedalaman Kalimantan Edited by CRISTINA EGHENTER and BERNARD SELLATO Jakarta: WWF Indonesia, 1999. Pp. 573. Maps, Plates, Tables, Notes, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463404290087 ...

Breaking new ground in Lao history. Essays on the seventh to twentieth centuries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Breaking new ground in Lao history. Essays on the seventh to twentieth centuries Edited by MAYOURY NGAOSRIVATHANA and KENNON BREAZEALE. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002. Pp. xv, 383. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404300081 ...

Bangkok: Place, practices and representation.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Bangkok: Place, practices and representation By MARC ASKEW. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xvii, 358. Tables, Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404310088 This book is an important milestone in the study of Bangkok. Any study...

Diem's final failure: prelude to America's war in Vietnam.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Diem's final failure: Prelude to America's war in Vietnam. By PHILIP CATTON Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002. Pp. x, 298. Map, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463404320084 In this book Philip Catton examines American-South...

Books received: JSEAS 2004, 1.
February 1, 2004... Asia Mobile cultures: New media in queer Asia Edited by CHRIS BERRY, FRAN MARTIN, and AUDREY YUE. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0 8223 3087 3 Nature in the global South: Environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia...