Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from March 1994

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from March 1994

The development of centralized craft production systems in A.D. 500-1600 Philippine chiefdoms.
March 1, 1994... Introduction Ethnohistoric sources suggest that at the time of European contact, the coastlines and interior river valleys of most of the major islands of the Philippines were dotted with politically complex, socially stratified societies,...

Archaeology and early Chinese glass trade in Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1994... When trade between China and Southeast Asia blossomed between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, Chinese traders began to form overseas Chinese communities. Their presence had significant effects on the region, including the formation of new...

Selayar and the green gold: the development of the coconut trade on an Indonesian Island (1820-1950).
March 1, 1994... In the colonial period many Europeans considered coconuts a lazy man's crop.(1) For the Indonesian population, however, they were a profitable form of cultivation, especially from the 1880s when the European oil and fats industry increasingly...

Beyond inevitability: the opening of Philippine provincial ports in 1855.
March 1, 1994... The opening of Philippine provincial ports to the world market in 1855 served to solidify the direct incorporation of regions outside Manila into the international capitalist system. This article reconstructs the events surrounding this important...

Dutch expansion in the Indonesian archipelago around 1900 and the imperialism debate.
March 1, 1994... Few works on modern imperialism (1880-1914) include Dutch political and military behaviour in the Indonesian archipelago. Theories concerning colonial expansion in this period have been based almost exclusively on the activities of the big...

The Singapore Council of Women and the women's movement.
March 1, 1994... The greater part of the historical literature concerning Southeast Asia says little about women because, following the western tradition, writers have concentrated on those individuals associated with decision making and power, areas where men...

Is Maluku still musicological 'terra incognita'? An overview of the music-cultures of the province of Maluku.
March 1, 1994... Introduction The province of Maluku, otherwise known as the Moluccas,(1) is divided into three main regions: the predominantly Muslim north, the mainly Christian central area, and the predominantly Christian southeast.(2) The central region...

Kuto Besak: Upaya Kesultanan Palembang Menegakkan Kemerdekaan.
March 1, 1994... For several years Djohan Hanafiah has been an influential force behind local efforts to make Palembang's history better known among Indonesians, and to this end has published several books that deal with episodes, individuals and places of...

Pendidikan Tinggi dan Tenaga Kerja Tingkat Tinggi di Indonesia.
March 1, 1994... This study explores the relationship between university education and employment through a survey of 998 students, 228 employed university graduates and 126 employers. Dr. Hardjono Notodihardjo was at the time of writing Senior Researcher in the...

Pergolakan Politik Tentara Sebelum dan Sesudah G 30S/PKI.
March 1, 1994... To use a contemporary term, this book on the vicissitudes of military politics is very transparent. From the outset, it declares that its sources of data were based on published materials that are already widely available and generally familiar,...

Asian Perceptions of Nature.
March 1, 1994... This collection of essays is timely, as one by-product of the escalating global environmental crisis is a debate on the connections between worldviews, attitudes to nature and the actual management of natural resources. New paradigms are being...

Asia's Cultural Mosaic: An Anthropological Introduction.
March 1, 1994... The contents of this volume are ordered in a manner more or less identical with what one may expect to find in many a modern introductory text to cultural anthropology, viz. humankind's biological heritage, language and culture, family, marriage...

Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1994... When tobacco plantations were established by Europeans on the east coast of Sumatra from the 1860s and onwards, land was abundant. However, the lack of a local supply of workers necessitated the importation of manpower from outside. This problem...

Keepers of the Forest: Land Management Alternatives in Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1994... Keepers of the Forest argues that the best managers of forests in much of Southeast Asia are the communities that live in them and depend on them for their livelihoods. The authors prescribe "collaborative forest management" between state...

La Birmanie ou la quete de l'unite.
March 1, 1994... The title of this many-sided investigation of nationalism and its consequences in modern Burma reflects the author's conviction, that the search for unity was the central issue of Burmese politics after the Second World War. He shows how the...

Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother?: Studies in Cultural Analysis.
March 1, 1994... It is always good when a senior and highly-respected academic takes the trouble to collect and republish papers written over a lifetime of scholarly devotion to his discipline. Southeast Asianists, no less than anthropologists, will surely herald...

In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-Farm Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present.
March 1, 1994... Rural economic history is something of a quagmire. Nowhere more so than when the topic is economic status, occupation and income. The categories are a good deal more slippery than they appear at first sight. How far, for example, is landlessness...

Changing Economy in Indonesia, vol. 10, Food Crops and Arable Lands, Java: 1815-1942.
March 1, 1994... The tenth volume in this invaluable series of historical statistics of Indonesia focuses on food crops and arable land in Java. The concentration on Java is necessitated by the virtual absence of data for the rest of the country; the only regions...

The Role of the Indonesian Chinese in Shaping Modern Indonesian Life.
March 1, 1994... The Chinese in Indonesia have played significant roles in various fields. However, in the past, many Western scholars had ignored the contribution of this minority group to Indonesia. Cornell University should be congratulated for sponsoring an...

Development Planning for Women in the Indonesian Transmigration Program.
March 1, 1994... Transmigration in Indonesia involves planning on paper and pioneering in practice. Between those extreme ends of the process, between planning and pioneering, Gaynor Dawson has situated her research on (Javanese) women in transmigration. It is...

Financing Local Government in Indonesia.
March 1, 1994... This is a sensible and useful collection of essays on the financing of local government in Indonesia. It provides description and analysis on an under-reported field. There is a wealth of statistical information on local government finance. The...

Sumba Bibliography.
March 1, 1994... This posthumously edited bibliography serves both its intended purposes: it is a useful introduction to literature on the history and peoples of Sumba Island (Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia), and also a tribute to its young compiler, Taro Goh, a...

Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea.
March 1, 1994... The essays in this book examine the interactions between the Javanese and their neighbours around the shores of the Java Sea. The idea of the Java Sea as a unit raises the problem that the Javanese, Sundanese, Malays, Balinese, and the various...

Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia.
March 1, 1994... While the eastern part of the Islamic world has become recently a more regular field of research -- as it should have been long ago -- it is not so frequent to be offered monographs on movements of Muslims from one part of the world to the other....

Malayan Rubber: The Interwar Years.
March 1, 1994... In 1973, John Drabble wrote his first book on Rubber In Malaya 1876-1922: The Genesis of the Industry. The present book is based on his research about the industry during the interwar years, and is a continuous study of the first one. In the...

Malaysian Politics: The Second Generation.
March 1, 1994... Most students of Malaysian affairs have benefitted from reading Means' first volume Malaysian Politics (2nd ed., London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976) at some time or other. Many have also returned to the book to recall the details of particular...

The Malaysian Economy: Pacific Connections.
March 1, 1994... In the last decade there has been considerable interest and attention on the Pacific region. Therefore it is inevitable that there should be many books written with titles similar to the one presently being reviewed. Indeed, there is much to...

Transferring a Tradition: Abd Al-Ra'uf Al-Singkili's Rendering into Malay of the Jalalayan Commentary.
March 1, 1994... This is a study of the first Malay commentary on the Qur'an as a whole. This commentary, the Tarjuman al-Mustafid, was composed by cAbd Al-Ra'uf of Singkel (c. 1615-93), a Sumatran scholar who lived and worked in Aceh. cAbd Al-Ra'uf's composition...

Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera.
March 1, 1994... Situated in a moving tapestry of Malaysian social, political, and economic history from the early twentieth century to the 1980s, Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera is an enlightening, well-documented, and powerful...

Women and Culture: Between Malay Adat and Islam.
March 1, 1994... This is a poorly written and very dull book on the position of women in Malay society. The book is based partly on fieldwork carried out by the author in villages on the border of Kedah and Penang between 1981 and 1985, and partly on the author's...

The Negrense: A Social History of an Elite Class.
March 1, 1994... Sugar, development of a frontier, class formation, as well as provincial and national politics are themes that characterize Violeta B. Lopez-Gonzaga's study of the elite of Negros Occidental. The author's story begins with two chapters on the...

Singapore: City-State in South-East Asia.
March 1, 1994... Regnier has produced an excellent overview of Singapore's origins as an "emporium" and of its subsequent development as the hub of Southeast Asia. His detailed treatment of Singapore's role within ASEAN and of the factors influencing the PAP...

Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910.
March 1, 1994... Opium and Empire is a socio-economic exploration of the place of opium in the economy of colonial Singapore. For the colonial government, deprived of a tax base by laissez faire economic policies, the monopolistic sale of opium through Chinese...

Voices from the Thai Countryside: The Short Stories of Samruam Singh.
March 1, 1994... October 14, 1973 to October 6, 1976, the period of political liberalization won through popular rejection of continual military rule and brutally terminated through violence, has talismanic qualities. For the liberal, middle-class, now...

The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp.
March 1, 1994... In Thailand, foreign residents and a good many visitors will surely welcome the easy availability of a local edition in English of Khammaan Khonkhai's (the nom de plume of Sompong Palasoon) well told, as well as ethnographically and...

Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought.
March 1, 1994... This book is published in memory of Richard B. Davis (1943-81), an anthropologist who had done much work in Thailand, whose two major works A Northern Thai Reader (1970) and Muang Metaphysics (1984) are well-known. Born American, Richard Davis...

Japanese Relations with Vietnam: 1951-1987.
March 1, 1994... Books and monographs on bilateral relations between Japan and Southeast Asian countries are rarities. Shiraishi makes an original contribution by studying Japanese relations with Vietnam especially when ". . . there has been no overall study of...