Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2008

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2008

Introduction: communities of interpretation and the construction of modern Myanmar.
June 1, 2008... In the past 120 years, the idea of Myanmar (Burma) has come to be known, produced, and understood through a variety of perspectives that reveal particular and sometimes contested perceptions of the Burmese past, present, and future. One has...

Mranma Pran: when context encounters notion.
June 1, 2008... Introduction: Some issues and problems Relegated to analysing the notion of 'Mranrna Pran / Burma' as envisioned by its historians, I began by jotting down their names, starting with the Pagan and Ava periods (ninth-sixteenth centuries)...

Finding the political in Myanmar, a.k.a. Burma.
June 1, 2008... From the British colonial soldier-officials and amateur historians who sought to explain the behaviour of the Konbaung monarchy to contemporary academics who attempt to decipher the relationship between 'the people', or 'peoples', and the...

Anthropological communities of interpretation for Burma: an overview.
June 1, 2008... The empirical foundation for anthropology as an intellectual discipline is ethnography, which I define as the systematic description of cultures and societies based on direct observation. Even so, a lot is omitted here. It is not clear what...

Communities of interpretation in the study of religion in Burma.
June 1, 2008... In The invention of world religions, Tomoko Masuzawa explores how the colonial expansion of the West engendered epistemic regimes that were central to the formation of a modern European identity and that defined Europe as the 'harbinger of...

Communities of the past: a new view of the old walls and hydraulic system at Sriksetra, Myanmar (Burma).
June 1, 2008... The community of interpretation that makes up Myanmar's archaeologists is small. Prior to independence, there were few scientific studies in Myanmar by trained professionals who specifically targeted human settlements. Most finds were...

Structuring revolt: communities of interpretation in the historiography of the Saya San rebellion.
June 1, 2008... In recent decades, the intersection of religion and resistance in colonial Southeast Asia has received considerable attention by scholars and has subsequently endured as a dominant paradigm in the study of anti-colonial protest movements.' Such...

Merchant in Asia: The trade of the Dutch East India Company during the eighteenth century.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Merchant in Asia: The trade of the Dutch East India Company during the eighteenth century By ELS M. JACOBS Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2006. Pp. 474. Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi:...

Forgotten wars: The end of Britain's Asian empire.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Forgotten wars: The end of Britain's Asian empire By CHRISTOPHER BAYLY and TIM HARPER New York, New York: Allen Lane, 2007. Pp. 674. Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000246 This book is a sequel, but...

Trade and society in the straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Trade and society in the straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830 By NORDIN HUSSIN Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2007. Pp. xxvii, 388. Plates, Tables, Maps, Appendices, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000258 By...

The Vietnamese war: Revolution and social change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Vietnamese war: Revolution and social change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975 By DAVID W. P. ELLIOTT Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. 2 v. Pp. 1547. Bibliography, Appendices, Maps, Notes, Index. doi:...

Water frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the lower Mekong region, 1750-1880.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Water frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the lower Mekong region, 1750-1880 Edited by NOLA COOKE and LI TANA Singapore and Oxford: Singapore University Press and Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. Pp. xiii, 202, Maps,...