Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2008

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2008

Evidence for the deliberate distortion of the Spanish Philippine colonial historical record in The Philippine Islands 1493-1898.(Report)
February 1, 2008... I ordered 'The Philippine Islands' for the Ethnological Survey and also for this bureau. We have received here about seven volumes. I have been somewhat disappointed in the series, taking it on the whole. It does not publish originals...

Sutomo, the Indonesian Study Club and organised labour in late colonial Surabaya.(Report)
February 1, 2008... Labour history of colonial Indonesia after the destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and its affiliated unions in 1926 has received little attention from historians. The accepted convention is that, after 1926 there was little or...

Food supply problem in Leyte, Philippines, during the Japanese occupation (1942-44).(Report)
February 1, 2008... This paper discusses how the Japanese military forces and the local Filipino government in Leyte, Philippines, implemented a food procurement policy during the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands during the Second World War. It...

Indonesian women and political Islam.
February 1, 2008... There is a voluminous literature by Islamic men about how women should behave and be treated. (1) Clearly the issue is a critical one for Islamic communities, which have always considered it important to regulate women, partly in order to...

Supplicating, naming, offering: tawassul in West Java.(Report)
February 1, 2008... The salat is the obligatory worship ritual for Muslims, and hence occupies central space in descriptions of Islamic worship. Yet it is by no means the only ritual performed by Muslims. There are also non-obligatory observances that fulfil...

'Hinduism' and 'Taoism' in Singapore: seeing points of convergence.(Report)
February 1, 2008... Introduction In Singapore today, the labels 'Hinduism' and 'Taoism' are official, administrative census categories denoting named and differentiated religions as well as markers of individual religious affiliation. Yet, these terms also...

Power and factional struggles in post-independence Burmese governments.(Report)
February 1, 2008... In modern Burmese history, power and factional struggles were more the rule than the exception, for they were present in almost all post-independence governments. Various rival groups and factions in post-independence governments constantly...

Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To foster the political will.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To foster the political will By NICHOLAS TARLING London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 276. Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463408000088 Regionalism in Southeast Asia is Nicholas Tarling's...

Secret trade, porous borders: Smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Secret trade, porous borders: Smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915 By ERIC TAGLIACOZZO New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. 437. Photos, Tables, Bibliography, Notes, Index....

The Javanese of the Rock. From the pangs of exile to the hazards of integration: Historical sociology of the Indonesian community of New Caledonia/Les Javanais du Caillou. Des affres de Texil aux alias de l'integration: Sociologie historique de la communaute indonesienne de Nouvelle-Caledonie.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Les Javanais du Caillou. Des affres de Texil aux alias de l'integration: Sociologie historique de la communaute indonesienne de Nouvelle-Caledonie [The Javanese of the Rock. From the pangs of exile to the hazards of integration: Historical...

The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy By DAVID T. HILL and KRISHNA SEN New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 204. Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000131 As pre-eminent scholars of Indonesian media, whose work...

The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam By GEORGE DUTTON Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. 293. Maps, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000143 ...