Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2005

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2005

Traditions of knowledge in Old Javanese literature, c. 1000-1500.
February 1, 2005... This article is a synthesis of and reaction to recent scholarship that is based in the translation and interpretation of Old Javanese kakawin. (1) The present study of the Old Javanese literary sources derives from my prior work on early...

Emporium in imperio: Nanyang networks and the Straits Chinese in Singapore, 1819-1914.
February 1, 2005... During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries empires and diasporas functioned as powerful 'motors' of globalisation, generating traffic in goods, peoples and ideas that integrated vast portions of the planet. Research into the global...

Faith in school: educational policy responses to ethno-religious conflict in the southern Philippines, 1935-1985.
February 1, 2005... The colonial and post-colonial experience of the Philippines is illustrative of a commonly held faith in educational policy to foster national unity and development in contexts of socio-linguistic diversity and endemic poverty. Systematic...

Tunku Abdul Rahman and Malaya's relations with Indonesia, 1957-1960.
February 1, 2005... The uneasy relationship that Malaya shared with Indonesia between 1957 and 1962 has already been chronicled. (1) Several scholars have drawn attention to the role of individual leaders in fomenting bilateral friction, noting in particular the...

Political assassination by other means: public protest, sorcery and morality in Thailand.
February 1, 2005... The past decade in Thailand has seen an increasing occurrence of the employment of sayasaat (magical knowledge) in the form of phithii saap chaeng (rites of cursing) in public protests and demonstrations. The performances are in fact acts of...

Identity, media and the margins: radio in Pekanbaru, Riau (Indonesia).
February 1, 2005... The Republic of Indonesia is not only a state with a distinctive national culture-under-construction, but also a conglomeration of hundreds of ethnic groups with their own customs and communities. 'Indonesian culture' (kebudayaan Indonesia) was...

New terrains in Southeast Asian history.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... New terrains in Southeast Asian history. Edited by ABU TALIB AHMAD and TAN LIOK EE. Singapore and Athens, OH: Singapore University Press and Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. 424. Index. DOI: 10.1017/S002246340521007X This collection on the...

Constituting communities: Theravada Buddhism and the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Constituting communities: Theravada Buddhism and the religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by JOHN CLIFFORD HOLT, JACOB N. KINNARD, JONATHAN S. WALTERS. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. Pp. 224. Index. DOI:...

Transparency and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Transparency and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. By GARRY RODAN. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xvii, 265 pp. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463405230072 Economics, electronics, epidemics and explosives started to...

Sisters and lovers: Women and desire in Bali.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Sisters and lovers: Women and desire in Bali. By MEGAN JENNAWAY. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Pp. xx, 309. Maps, Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463405240079 'Desire and all its discontents'--these...

La minorite musulmane de Singapour.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... La minorite musulmane de Singapour. By LAURENT METZGER. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. Pp 296. Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463405250075 Unfortunately, the first impression one gets when reading this book is that it has...

Atlas historique des six provinces du sud du Vietnam: du milieu du XIXe au debut du XXe siecle.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Atlas historique des six provinces du sud du Vietnam: du milieu du XIXe au debut du XXe siecle. By PHILIPPE LANGLET and QUACH THANH TAM. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2001. Pp. 287. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. [in French] DOI:...

Books received 2005: 1.
February 1, 2005... Asia Asian Development Bank annual report Manila: ADB, 2004. The Eastern origins of Western civilization By JOHN M. HOBSON. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-54724-5 Southeast Asia Southeast Asian studies: Pacific...