Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2006

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2006

Export commodity and regional currency: the role of Chinese copper coins in the Melaka Straits, tenth to fourteenth centuries.
June 1, 2006... Throughout the Song and Yuan periods (960-1368), Chinese copper coins played an important role as an instrument of maritime trade in the transactions between China and its foreign trading partners. The divisibility of copper coin, due to its...

Women, Westernization and the origins of modern Vietnamese theatre.
June 1, 2006... Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, magazines, newspapers and novels burst off the presses in Vietnamese cities at extraordinary rates. (1) As cities expanded and a small but not insignificant urban Vietnamese middle class emerged, city dwellers...

Indonesia 1939-1942: prelude to the Japanese occupation.
June 1, 2006... On 17 August 1945, two days after Japan surrendered, Indonesia declared independence and a national revolution ensued. Since then it has become a historiographical convention to view the Japanese occupation as a prelude to Indonesian...

The position of Islam in the Constitution of Malaysia.
June 1, 2006... Article 3 (1) of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia states that Islam is the religion of the Federation. (1) This provision has drawn considerable debate in recent years from scholars, politicians, lawyers and the general public in Malaysia....

The domination of a fussy strongman in provincial Thailand: the case of Banharn Silpa-archa in Suphanburi.
June 1, 2006... One consequence of democratization in post-1973 Thailand has been the political prominence of allegedly corrupt provincial bosses, including violence-prone godfathers (chao pho). Several leading scholars of provincial Thai politics, such as...

Reflections on the 'disappearing Sakai': a tribal minority in Southern Thailand.
June 1, 2006... 'They will all run away from you and disappear into the forest' (1) My title is deliberately ambiguous: the minority tribal groups generally known in Thai as 'Sakai' have long been declared to be 'disappearing' demographically; and at the...

Local integration and coastal connections in interior Kalimantan: the case of the nalin taun ritual among the Bentian.
June 1, 2006... The nalin taun is a community ritual which is practised by the Luangan Dayaks--the Bentian, Benuaq and Tunjung--of the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo. (1) According to the information of older people in the Bentian villages...

'Died in the service of Portugal': legitimacy of authority and dynamics of group identity among the Atsabe Kemak in East Timor.
June 1, 2006... As one enters the East Timorese town of Atsabe, the administrative centre of the subdistrict with the same name, one quickly notices a newly built, large, elaborate grave, paved with white tiles and adorned with fresh flowers. The grave seems...

Rural Capitalists in Asia: A Comparative Analysis on India, Indonesia and Malaysia.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Rural capitalists in Asia: A comparative analysis of India, Indonesia and Malaysia By MARIO RUTTEN London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 88. Pp. xii, 269. Maps, Figures, Photographs, Notes,...

Mematahkan pewarisan ingatan: Wacana anti-komunis dan politik rekonsiliasi pasca-Suharto [breaking the immortalized past: anti-communist discourse and politics of reconciliation in post-Suharto Indonesia].(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Mematahkan pewarisan ingatan: Wacana anti-komunis dan politik rekomiliasi pascaSuharto [Breaking the immortalized past: Anti-communist discourse and politics of reconciliation in post-Suharto Indonesia] By BUDIAWAN Jakarta: ELSAM, 2004. Pp....

And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... And the sun pursued the moon: Symbolic knowledge and traditional authority among the Makassar By THOMAS GIBSON Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 262. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463406600581 The...

From Isfahan to Ayutthaya: Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... From Isfahan to Ayutthaya: Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th century By M. ISMAIL MARCINKOWSKI Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2005. Pp. 121. Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463406610588 In an attempt to provide...

Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Beyond the bronze pillars: Envoy poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese relationship By LIAM C. KELLEY Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Association for Asian Studies, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. Notes, Glossary, Works Cited, Index. doi:...

Mandarins et subalternes au Nord du Viet Nato: une bureaucratie a l'epreuve.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Mandarins et subalternes au Nord du Viet Nato: Une bureaucratie a l'epreuve By EMMANUEL POISSON Paris: Maisonneuve and Larose, 2004. Pp. 335. Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463406630580 Emmanuel Poisson opens up for...

Books received.
June 1, 2006... Asia Songs for Siva: Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi Translated by VINAYA CHAITANYA Lanham, MD: Akamira Press, 2005 Cross culture and faith: The life and work of James Mellon Menzies By LINFU DONG Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005...