Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from September 1993

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from September 1993

A note on finds of early Chinese ceramics associated with megalithic remains in northwest Lampung.
September 1, 1993... Introduction Finds of imported ceramics, especially early Chinese stonewares, are relatively rare in the mountainous interior of Sumatra.(1) In 1977, however, Indonesian archaeologists discovered a series of five megalithic sites in Kecamatan...

Southeast Asian intercalation: variations and complexities.
September 1, 1993... One of the constant problems for historians of Southeast Asia is to assimilate its system of adding extra days and extra years to the lunar calendar to make it keep pace with the solar calendar. It is well known that the addition of an extra...

Southeast Asia's incorporation into the world rice market: a revisionist view.
September 1, 1993... The story of Southeast Asia's incorporation into the "world" -- or, more properly, Western -- rice market is well known.(1) Indeed, this story is sufficiently familiar so as almost to invite employment of the presumptuous "as every schoolboy...

Conditions on sugar estates in colonial Java: comparisons with Deli.
September 1, 1993... In September 1990 the Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam (CASA) organized an International Workshop on "Plantation Labour in Colonial Asia".(1) Most of the presented papers dealt with plantations where the workforce had to be imported from...

The development of the rubber market in pre-World War II Singapore.
September 1, 1993... section D. When Singapore Chinese firms added rubber to produce trade, the tendency for the name of the firm, if not always of the chop, to change often conceals this continuity. SSTC 1933-34, II, p. 362. 54 SSTC 1933-34, II, p. 794. 55 J.E....

The southern Thai shadowplay tradition in historical context.
September 1, 1993... Thailand", Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, no. 1 (Jan. 1993): 133-58. 44 Paritta Chalermpow-Koanantakool, "Relevance of the Textual and Contextual Analyses in Understanding Folk Performance in Modern Society: A Case of Southern...

Interpreting Thai religious change: temples, Sangha reform and social change.
September 1, 1993... Interpreting Thai Religious Change Thai religion is changing. So is Thai society. To most scholars the connection is obvious: social and especially material changes drive religious ones. So a new middle class causes religious ferment(1) while...

Wawasan Kejuangan Panglima Besar Jenderal Sudirman.
September 1, 1993... Indonesia's first army commander, General Sudirman, died on 29 January 1950. From his sickbed, he had seen Indonesia's independence finally recognized by the Dutch a month earlier, but he could play no role, except as legend, in the turbulent...

The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretative History.
September 1, 1993... Among recent books in the field of Indonesian, especially Javanese, studies these two deserve special attention. Anderson, a student of politics, treats central lineages of power, especially as embedded in languages extending from the kraton...

Taingyingtha Lumyomya Ayei hnin 1947 Acheihkan Upadei (The Nationalities Issue and 1947 Constitution).
September 1, 1993... The book under review was initiated in 1989 by Senior General Saw Maung, then Chairman of State Law and Order Restoration Council, the military government of Burma (Myanmar). Saw Maung indicated that an authentic history of the nationalities...

Mohammad Hatta: Biografi Politik.
September 1, 1993... Mohammad Hatta -- unlike most politicians of our era -- was a man of high principles, who devoted most of his life to the service of his country, personally benefiting little, and enduring much. Deliar Noer has special qualifications to write...

Partai Islam di Pentas Nasional: 1945-1965 (Islamic Parties in the National Drama, 1945-1965).
September 1, 1993... Indonesian Muslim writing about the history of Indonesia is becoming more common, because young intellectuals pursue such topics in the public university system in Indonesia and in graduate centers abroad. One important genre is a product of...

2475: Kanpathiwat khong Sayam (1932: The Thai Coup).
September 1, 1993... Last year marked the sixtieth anniversary of the 1932 (Buddhist Era 2475) coup which ended the absolute monarchy in Siam and, in theory, ushered in a system of constitutional monarchy and representative institutions; in reality, the past sixty...

Constitutional Systems in Late Twentieth Century Asia.
September 1, 1993... This is the second collection of essays on constitutionalism in Asia edited by Professor Lawrence Ward Beer.(1) It was offered at the Bicentennial Commemoration of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights Ratification, and comprises a...

Albuquerque, Caesar of the East: Selected Texts by Afonso de Albuquerque and His Son.
September 1, 1993... This book contains perhaps the best example yet written of the application of new trends in textual analysis to early European sources on Southeast Asia. The vehicle for this contribution is T.F. Earle's introduction to this volume, entitled...

Cultes populaires et societes asiatiques: Appareils cultuels et appareils de pouvoir.
September 1, 1993... This book contains twelve articles. It was published following the fourth French-Japanese seminar entitled "Religions and Asian Societies" held in Paris in October 1989. Preceeded by a long foreword, these proceedings are part of a series edited...

Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries.
September 1, 1993... The book examines the politics of industrialization in newly industrializing countries. The focus is particularly on the determinants of policy choices. Four sources of changes in industrial policy are distinguished in the study: the...

Food, Hunger, and Agricultural Issues.
September 1, 1993... The books to be reviewed here deal with agricultural issues of Third World nations from the perspective of, broadly speaking, mainstream economics. Basically, they study the interaction between state and market (public and private sector), a...

Rainforest Politics: Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia.
September 1, 1993... With so much attention being paid to tropical rainforests, this book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the rather complex political, economic, social and cultural factors that affect the destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia. While...

Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia.
September 1, 1993... This important collection of essays grew out of a seminar on "Cognatic Forms of Social Organization in Southeast Asia" held in Amsterdam in 1983. According to the editors, Frans Husken and Jeremy Kemp, two central "themes" in anthropological...

Peasants and Cities, Cities and Peasants: Rethinking Southeast Asian Models.
September 1, 1993... Peasants and Cities, Cities and Peasants: Rethinking Southeast Asian Models is a collection of nine essays, originally prepared for the Eighth Bielefeld Colloquium on Southeast Asia in 1988. The revised papers first appeared in a special issue of...

ASEAN Economic Co-operation Handbook.
September 1, 1993... Five countries signed the "Asean Declaration" on 8 August 1967, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei became the sixth member when it signed the Customs Code of Conduct in April 1986. The total population of the...

Literary Perspectives on Southeast Asia: Collected Essays by Peter Wicks.
September 1, 1993... Peter Wicks, Associate Professor of Literature at the University College of Southern Queensland, is an enterprising chap who sees fit here to assemble several essays on matters Southeast Asian published over the years in obscure venues and to...

Ideological Innovation Under Monarchy: Aspects of Legitimation Activity in Contemporary Brunei.
September 1, 1993... In its author's words, this is a "preliminary" study of "Brunei ruling-elite ideology,... but with no intensive reference to social and political impact". The "foundations of the study were laid between mid-1989 and mid-1990" and "the study was...

True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border.
September 1, 1993... This is a book about Burmese Karen nationalists, their Christian leadership and their Buddhist and traditionalist rank-and-file. It tells of their day-to-day lives, and of their hopes and fears for their self-declared, but internationally...

Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij: Stoomvaart en staatsvorming in de Indonesische archipel 1888-1914.
September 1, 1993... Dr a Campo's book is a very significant contribution to the study of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia. It is economic history set persuasively within a larger context of political and technological history, a very big and in parts quite demanding...

Chinese Economic Activity in Netherlands India: Selected Translations from the Dutch.
September 1, 1993... As M.R. Fernando points out in his Introduction to this helpful collection of translated materials, the Dutch were ambivalent about the Indies Chinese. On the one hand, from petty traders to powerful merchants and revenue farmers, the Chinese...

Space and Place in Eastern Indonesia.
September 1, 1993... Gregory Forth's text is a structural analysis of Eastern Sumbanese and Central Flores architecture and its symbolism. The author carefully compares the conceptual and physical ordering of space and place in two communities, one in eastern Sumba...

Indonesian Cinema: National Culture on Screen.
September 1, 1993... If I were asked to name the most interesting book ever published on Indonesian cinema, I would cite the work by Professor Karl Heider under review. The book is in the American tradition of anthropological studies on films which was initiated in...

Indonesian Assessment: 1991.
September 1, 1993... This is the third Indonesian assessment and as before it consists of two parts, the first being a review of recent economic and political trends and second a close examination of one major issue, higher education being selected for 1991. Most of...

From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands.
September 1, 1993... Asymmetric marriage alliance, found in quite a number of societies throughout Southeast Asia, has generated a great deal of theoretical interest in anthropology throughout the present century. The early Dutch anthropologists and administrators in...

Onderzoek in Zuidoost-Azie: Agenda's voor de Jaren Negentig.
September 1, 1993... Semaian started in 1989 as a new monograph series published by the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania at Leiden University. The issue under review is the third of the six publications which have appeared so far. It...

Scavengers, Recyclers and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia.
September 1, 1993... Rubbish does not seem an attractive topic but Daniel Sicular's book raises many interesting ideas. The book looks in detail at scavenging in Bandung, compares solid waste management in Bandung, Surabaya, Jakarta, Shanghai, Mexico and India....

Bangka Tin and Mentok Pepper: Chinese Settlement on an Indonesian Island.
September 1, 1993... There is a regrettable shortage of regional case studies in Indonesian economic and social history, especially with respect to the Outer Islands. For that reason alone, this monograph is a most welcome contribution. It offers a comprehensive...

Historical Dictionary of Laos.
September 1, 1993... Quite apart from their obvious practical uses, historical dictionaries also give us a fresh perspective on historical events. History is normally approached chronologically or thematically, or through a judicious combination of the chronological...

Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia.
September 1, 1993... In this interestingly titled book, Alasdair Bowie provides two main things: an account of economic change in West Malaysia from 1957-89, with particular reference to the policies of industrial development pursued to diversify away from dependence...

The City in the Village: The In-Situ Urbanization of Villages, Villagers and Their Land Around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
September 1, 1993... Kuala Lumpur and its Klang Valley hinterland is changing fast. There is no more striking image of this change than the grand mosque which stands at the symbolic centre of Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor, one of those new buildings in Southeast...

From PKI to the Comintern: 1924-1941, The Apprenticeship of the Malayan Communist Party: Selected Documents and Discussion.
September 1, 1993... With the fall of the Berlin Wall in the autumn of 1989 and subsequently the abandonment of the communist ideology and practice in Moscow as well as the decision of most leaders of the Malayan Communist Party in December 1989 to renounce their...

Child Development: Preschool Children.
September 1, 1993... This book is a report of a multi-disciplinary cross-sectional study of 3,099 Malaysian children aged 3 to 6 years, from rural Selangor State and Kuala Lumpur. It is organized into 11 chapters. The first deals with rationale, sampling and general...

Orang Regimen: The Malays of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment.
September 1, 1993... The scope of this book is rather wider than the title might suggest. During the first three quarters of the nineteenth century, service in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment (CRR) and its predecessors was indeed the mainstay of the Malay community of Sri...

Growth and Ethnic Inequality: Malaysia's New Economic Policy.
September 1, 1993... Over the past few years, the New Economic Policy (NEP) in Malaysia has been subjected to critical assessment as 1990, its termination date, approached. In a number of diverse settings, what had seemed to be a broad consensus in Malaysian society...

Malay Peasants Coping with the World: Breaking the Community Circle?
September 1, 1993... Breaking the Community Circle? is a book which helps to break new ground, in challenging some myths about the nature of "community", a concept often left unexamined. More specifically, it is also a detailed study of the effects of development...

Transnationalization, the State, and the People: The Malaysian Case, part 2.
September 1, 1993... This is a monograph of five "Working Papers" in the United Nations University Asian Perspectives Project (Southeast Asia) which merits sympathetic and careful attention, and deserves a wider readership. This is so, despite its datedness and a few...

The Origins of Metropolitan Manila: A Political and Social Analysis.
September 1, 1993... One of the two common paradoxes of regional or local histories is that they have a small arena in which to work with data of a circumscribed nature often overshadowed by events and patterns occurring elsewhere on a national state; nonetheless,...

Everyday Politics in the Philippines: Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village.
September 1, 1993... This is the most comprehensive analysis of any Philippine community by a political scientist. It is, in fact, the most thorough tracing of the intricate lines of co-operation and conflict in a Philippine village by any scholar. (For this purpose...

From Marcos to Aquino: Local Perspectives on Political Transitions in the Philippines.
September 1, 1993... This collection of essays on the local ramifications of the 1986 EDSA uprising constitute one of the most useful and indispensable guides to understanding the complexities of recent Philippine political history. Originating from a 1988 conference...

Triumph of Moro Diplomacy: The Maguindanao Sultanate in the 17th Century.
September 1, 1993... William Henry Scott coined the term "parchment curtain" to describe the colonial power's monopoly on the production of source materials that reveal the condition of Filipinos in the past. However, he argued that there were "cracks" in that...

Counseling Psychology in the Philippines: Research and Practice.
September 1, 1993... This thin book, addressed to practising counsellors in the Philippines, comprises ten of the author's papers, written over the ten years prior to publication. Rose Marie Salazar-Clemena is professor and chair of the Department of Counselor...

The Making of a Nation: Essays on Nineteenth Century Filipino Nationalism.
September 1, 1993... The essays collected in this volume, in the words of John N. Schumacher himself, "form something of an organic unity, a kind of intellectual biography of my past thirty-five years of research into the birth of a Filipino nation". In his major...

Japan Views the Philippines: 1900-1944.
September 1, 1993... As the title of the book suggests, this is a study of the attitudes, views, and images the Japanese had of the Philippines and the Filipinos from 1900 to 1944. It is based on the extensive examination of Japanese language sources -- official and...

Opium Fields.
September 1, 1993... This popular introduction to the culture of opium in north Thailand is pleasantly written and, for the most part, rather well researched. It combines, quite successfully in this reviewer's estimation, the authors' reading of the literature...

Family and State: The Formation of a Sino-Thai Tin-Mining Dynasty.
September 1, 1993... This is an important book which contributes to our understanding of not only the formation of a Chinese business empire in Southeast Asia, but also the regional history with reference to commercial development in the western states of the Thai...

Power and Culture: The Struggle Against Poverty in Thailand.
September 1, 1993... The stated aim of the author is "to explore the NGO struggle against underdevelopment and poverty in Thailand with particular reference to the concepts of power and culture". The author advances the thesis that government-initiated development in...

Ku Daeng - Thirty Years Later: A Village Study in Northern Thailand, 1954-1984.
September 1, 1993... More than thirty years ago, on my first visit to Thailand, I was happy to purchase a copy of Konrad Kingshill's Ku Daeng -- The Red Tomb: A Village Study in Northern Thailand,(1) then less than a year off press. During the past 20 years, I have...

Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand.
September 1, 1993... This book addresses a critically important subject: the ethics of the field work enterprise, which is the very backbone of academic anthropology. Nevertheless, I doubt the wisdom of The University of Wisconsin's Center for Southeast Asian Studies...

Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution.
September 1, 1993... Hue-Tam Ho Tai's most recent book, focused on the decisive decade which runs from the first World War to the 1930 Indochinese uprisings, rehabilitates the role of radicalism in the political and cultural history of Vietnam. Far from taking a...

A Vietnamese Scholar in Anguish: Nguyen Khuyen and the Decline of the Confucian Order, 1884-1909.
September 1, 1993... Poetry has played an important role in both the culture and the history of Vietnam. Part of the reason may be that in the highly formalized institutional framework of traditional Confucianism there was little scope for the contribution of...

Socio-Economic Development in Vietnam: The Agenda for the 1990s.
September 1, 1993... On the occasion of the Conference on National Reunification (of the north and south) in November 1975, Truong Chinh was quoted by the author Vo Nhan Tri as saying that "the path to socialism |was~ the only path that |would~ lead our land to...

Political Economy in Vietnam.
September 1, 1993... As Vietnam emerges, the world around it needs serious studies to try to explain and analyze a deep complicated and troubled land. Most of the finest scholarship on Vietnam analyzes history well before and up to 1945, and only now are fine...