Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from September 1994

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from September 1994

Feudalism in pre-colonial Malaya: the past as a colonial discourse.
September 1, 1994... What of the "feudalisms" throughout the world from China to the Greece of the beautifully greaved Achaeans? For the most part, they bear scarcely any resemblance to each other. That is because nearly every historian understands the word as he...

Nineteenth-century Vietnamese Confucianization in historical perspective: evidence from the palace examinations (1463-1883).
September 1, 1994... Introduction For more than a century Vietnam has been caught up in an often traumatic series of changes whose starting-point is conventionally located in the 1860s, when the Nguyen kingdom lost its six most southerly provinces to French...

Nguyen Truong To: a Catholic reformer at Emperor Tu-duc's court.
September 1, 1994... In the years between the initial Franco-Spanish invasion of Vietnam in 1858 and the definitive establishment of France's protectorate in 1885, the Vietnamese official elite (comprised of the emperor, court mandarins, other high-ranking...

The Batak millenarian response to the colonial order. (Batak, Sumatra)
September 1, 1994... Introduction One of the central problems that faced Third World peoples under European colonial rule was how to reform distorted power relations between the colonial and indigenous entities. Although indigenous peoples were generally...

The Russian consulate in Singapore and British expansion in Southeast Asia (1890-1905).
September 1, 1994... I Russia's foreign policy concerns in Southeast Asia evolved primarily from predominant strategic and economic interests in China and the Far East. By stabilizing and expanding and securing its Eastern frontiers, opening trade, and...

'Bangatowa,' 'patogu' and 'gaddhungan:' perceptions of the tiger among the Madurese. (Indonesians)
September 1, 1994... Introduction There are no tigers on Madura now and it is not clear if they even occurred naturally on the island. The tiger (Panthera tigris sondaicus) did live on Java but is now for all practical purposes, extinct. In East Java and...

Population and society in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
September 1, 1994... The statistics of population behavior in the mass are a dry topic treated in isolation, though they possess their own fascination and rational structure. But they measure events which are central to the life of men and women in all...

Gerak Penduduk, Pembangunan dan Perubahan Sosial: Kasus Tiga Komunitas Padi Sawah di Sulawesi Selatan.
September 1, 1994... By MUHAMMAD IDRUS ABUSTAM. Jakarta: Penerbit Universitas Indonesia, 1989. Pp. xxx, 470. Bibliography, Appendices. [In Indonesian.] This book, as its title translates, concerns population mobility, development and social change, as illustrated...

Nahdlatul Ulama dan Pancasila: Sejarah dan Peranan NU dalam Perjuangan Umat Islam di Indonesia dalam Rangka Penerimaan Pancasila Sebagai Satu-satunya Asas.
September 1, 1994... By EINAR M. SITOMPUL, M.TH. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1989. Pp. 271. Appendices, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. [In Indonesian.] The traditionalist Muslim Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is Indonesia's largest organisation. Credibly claiming the...

Quo Vadis NU Setelah Kembali ke Khittah 1926.
September 1, 1994... By KACUNG MARIJAN. Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga, 1992. Pp. xxvii, Appendices, Bibliography. [In Indonesian.] The traditionalist Muslim Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is Indonesia's largest organisation. Credibly claiming the loyalties of twenty or thirty...

Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah di Indonesia. Survei Historis, Geografis dan Sosiologis.
September 1, 1994... By MARTIN VAN BRUINESSEN. Bandung: Mizan, 1992. [In Indonesian.] The Dutch anthropologist van Bruinessen wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Agha, Shaikh and State: the Social and Political Organization of Kurdistan (Utrecht University 1987, reprinted by...

Peranan Ulama dalam Golkar, 1971-1980: Dari Pemilu Sampai Malari.
September 1, 1994... By HERU CAHYONO. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1992. Pp. 230. Bibliography. [In Indonesian.] This is the first scholarly study of GUPPI (Gabungan Usaha Perbaikan Pendidikan Islam or Association for the Improvement of Islamic Education) to be...

Pancasila, Islam dan ABRI: Buah Renungan Seorang Prajurit.
September 1, 1994... By SAYIDIMAN SURYOHADIPROJO. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1992. Pp. 240. [In Indonesian.] This book should be welcomed by observers of Indonesian politics, not only because there are very few Indonesian generals who publish their thoughts,...

Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual.
September 1, 1994... By PETER METCALF and RICHARD HUNTINGTON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Second Edition. Pp. 304. Illustrations, Index. If one owns a first edition, second editions are rarely worth buying. This volume proves to be an exception to...

Burmese Nationalist Movements: 1940-1948.
September 1, 1994... By U MAUNG MAUNG. Edinburgh: Kiscadale Publications, 1989. Pp. xvii, 395. Notes, Bibliography, Index. The final goal of Burmese nationalist movements throughout the Second World War and the immediate postwar years was independence. It is the...

Nat-Pwe: Burma's Supernatural Sub-culture.
September 1, 1994... By YVES RODRIOUE. Gartmore (Scotland): Kiscadale, 1992. Pp. 80. Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography. This richly illustrated volume is essentially a spin-off from the author's film-making in Burma, which resulted in the French-language work,...

Tembang in Two Traditions: Performance and Interpretation of Javanese Literature.
September 1, 1994... By BERNARD ARPS. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. Pp. xiii, 485. Illustrations, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Until the 1920s or so, "serious" Javanese literature was written in tembang, verse...

The Voice of the Night: Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar.
September 1, 1994... Translated by BURTON RAFFEL. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Centre for International Studies, 1993. Pp. xvi, 180. Appendix. Chairil Anwar (1922-49) is widely regarded as Indonesia's greatest twentieth-century poet. His reputation rests on two...

The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System.
September 1, 1994... By CORNELIS FASSEUR. Translated by R.E. ELSON and ARY KRAAL, edited by R.E. ELSON. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. Pp. 266. Tables, Notes, Bibliography. The system of colonial exploitation which went by the name of the...

Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja.
September 1, 1994... By DOUGLAS W. HOLLAN and JANE C. WELLENKAMP. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 276. Maps, Photographs, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Any new addition to the steadily growing ethnographic literature on the Toraja of highland...

Imagine Buddha in Prambanan: Reconsidering the Buddhist Background of the Loro Jonggrang Temple Complex.
September 1, 1994... By ROY E. JORDAAN. Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azie en Oceanie, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1893. Pp. 65. Maps, Figures, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. I share two basic opinions with the author of this book. First, the...

Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands.
September 1, 1994... By PAUL MICHAEL TAYLOR and LORRAINE V. ARAGON, with assistance from ANNAMARIE L. RICE. Washington D.C./New York: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. Pp. 318. Maps,...

Historical Dictionary of Malaysia.
September 1, 1994... By AMARJIT KAUR. Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. Pp. xxvi, 300. Abbreviations and Acronyms, Chronology, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Glossary. Local Malaysian lexicography is not so advanced and has not been as...

Power Builds the Nation: The National Electricity Board of the States of Malaya and Its Predecessors.
September 1, 1994... By MUZAFFAR TATE. Kuala Lumpur: The National Electricity Board of the States of Malaya, 1989, 1991. Figures, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This well-produced and liberally-illustrated study was commissioned by the National...

Liberalism and the Quest for the Islamic Identity in the Philippines.
September 1, 1994... By KENNETH E. BAUZON. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1991. Bibliography, Index. The bombs that go off in churches and mosques in Zamboagna, Davao, and elsewhere in the southern Philippines serve to remind the world that religious...

Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines.
September 1, 1994... By ROBIN BROAD with JOHN CAVANAGH. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Photographs, Bibliography, Index. A principal message in this book is that many average Filipinos are concerned about environmental degradation and are...

The Development of Singapore Law.
September 1, 1994... By ANDREW PHANG BOON LEONG. Singapore: Butterworths, 1990. Pp. xxviii, 593. Tables, Notes, Index. This voluminous book is a revised version of the author's 1987 Harvard Law School doctoral dissertation. It is a pioneering effort by a local...

A Life Apart: Viewed from the Hills.
September 1, 1994... By JON BOYES and S. PIRABAN. Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 1992. Maps, Figures, Illustrations. There is a growing, locally-published, popular English-language literature on the hill peoples of northern Thailand that has been generated to meet the...

Etude historique et critique du journal du voyage de Siam de Claude Ceberet, Envoye extraordinaire du Roi en 1687 et 1688.
September 1, 1994... By MICHEL JACQ-HERGOUALC'H. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992. Pp. 360. Abbreviations, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. Most people who have studied the history of seventeenth-century Siam have heard of Claude Ceberet as one of Louis XIV's two envoys of...

L'Europe et le Siam du XVIe au XVIIIe Siecle; Apports Culturels.
September 1, 1994... By MICHEL JACQ-HERGOUALC'H. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993. Pp. 302. Abbreviations, Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Most people who have studied the history of seventeenth-century Siam have heard of Claude Ceberet as one of Louis XIV's two...

Forest Monks and the Nation-State: An Anthropological and Historical Study in Northeastern Thailand.
September 1, 1994... By J.L. TAYLOR. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993. Pp. xi, 391. Maps, Figures, Plates, Appendices, Index. There is no doubt that the Forest Monks of Thailand constitute a branch of the Buddhist Order of monks that has been...

The Highland Heritage: Collected Essays on Upland North Thailand.
September 1, 1994... Edited by ANTHONY R. WALKER. Singapore: Suvarnabhumi Books, 1992. Pp. xvi, 434. Maps, Figures, Tables, Plates, Index. In order to remain within the required space limits when reviewing a book that consists of a collection of essays often one...

Quand L'Opium Financait La Colonisation en Indochine: L'elaboration de la regie generale de l'opium (1860 a 1914).
September 1, 1994... By CHANTAL DESCOURS-GATIN. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1992. Pp. 292. Figures, Notes, Bibliography. In modern Vietnamese history, the importance of opium is difficult to exaggerate. It largely financed the cost of the French conquest and...