Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from September 1995

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from September 1995

The demography of Ambon in the seventeenth century: evidence from colonial proto-censuses. (Ambon Island, Indonesia)
September 1, 1995... In modern Indonesia the demographic study of the population has become a major field of academic interest. The reason is obvious: the endeavour to develop the nation's economy in order to give every citizen a proper standard of living and to...

The trumpet shall sound for rich peasants: Kasan Mukmin's uprising in Gedangan, East Java, 1904.
September 1, 1995... In late May 1904 a small band of people led by a certain Kasan Mukmin, a kyai or rural religious teacher, mounted an uprising in the village of Kebonpasar in Gedangan district of Sidoarjo regency, East Java. It was a single incident in a series...

The colonial municipal council in Padang (Sumatra) as political arena.
September 1, 1995... The experiment with administrative decentralization in Indonesia started with a new law that was enacted in 1903. The European civil servants believed that this law would protect their position, and they did not foresee two processes that were to...

Religious change and historical reflection in Anakalang, West Sumba, Indonesia.
September 1, 1995... Religious conversion juxtaposes new beliefs and practices with previous ones, the relationship between the old and new often put in terms of substitution, superimposition, renaming, or rejection. Conversion in Anakalang, a district of West Sumba...

The Theravada Buddhist engagement with modernity in Southeast Asia: whither the social paradigm of the galactic polity?
September 1, 1995... Introduction In the Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia, that is Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and, to some extent, Vietnam, the articulation of secular and religious authority developed in historically particular ways.(1) Scholars have...

From the mountains and the interiors: a quarter of a century of research among Fourth World peoples in Southeast Asia (with special reference to northern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia). (ethnic minorities)
September 1, 1995... 1. Introduction: The State of Play in 1970 Twenty-five years ago, in 1970, when the first volume of the Journal of South-East Asian Studies made its appearance, I was living in a rather remote mountain village in Phrao district, northern...

"Traditional music weeps" and other themes in the discourse of music, dance and theater of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
September 1, 1995... One of the most remarkable features of the past twenty years of scholarship on the Southeast Asian performing arts has been the sparking off of ideas between Southeast Asian-born scholars, whether trained in Southeast Asian universities or...

Toward a more comprehensive analysis of Philippine politics: beyond the patron-client, factional framework.
September 1, 1995... Introduction Thirty years ago, a theory of Philippine politics emerged that until now remains the most influential among academics and is widely adopted by journalists, diplomats and other observers of the Philippines. Its argument, in brief,...

Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts, vol. 1, Introduction and Manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta.
September 1, 1995... There have been numerous previous efforts to furnish scholars with some idea of the range of Indonesian manuscript materials in individual collections. Many great philologists have been engaged in such work: H. Chambert-Loir, H.I.R. Hinzler, C....

Katalog Induk Naskah-Naskah Nusantara. Jilid I. Museum Sonobudoyo Yogyakarta.
September 1, 1995... There have been numerous previous efforts to furnish scholars with some idea of the range of Indonesian manuscript materials in individual collections. Many great philologists have been engaged in such work: H. Chambert-Loir, H.I.R. Hinzler, C....

Xuanni fuhai dao Nanzhou: Rujia sixiang yu zaoqi Xinjiapo huaren shehui shiliao huibian.
September 1, 1995... This book is essentially a compilation of historical documents, with the exception of the introductory chapter, an analytical section on the Huixianshe (one of the early social institutions promoting Confucianism) and the conclusion. The Hong...

Tai Noson Shakairon.
September 1, 1995... This volume draws on 20 years of fieldwork in Thailand to explore a dynamic relationship between peasant society and the outside world. A major strength of this book is its broad range: diachronically, from the formation to the diversification of...

Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region.
September 1, 1995... The edited volume aims to examine the political consequences of economic growth in nine Asian countries. These countries are classified into four clusters: the giant economy of China, the developing economies (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and...

A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to South and South-East Asia, 2 vols.
September 1, 1995... From the time of its publication in 1963 the predecessor to this publication, compiled by M.D. Wainwright and Noel Matthews under the title as the volumes under review (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), has provided historians working on...

Japanese Contributions to Southeast Asian Studies: A Bibliography of English-Language Publications, 1945-1991.
September 1, 1995... Unlike its Chinese studies, Japan's Southeast Asian studies has a relatively short history. It began in earnest only during World War II for the purpose of southward expansion but collapsed once the country was defeated in 1945. It started again...

The Preservation and Adaptation of Tradition: Studies of Chinese Religious Expression in Southeast Asia.
September 1, 1995... The occasional journal Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography has established itself as an important outlet for the publication of detailed descriptive anthropological accounts of a variety of aspects of Southeast Asian cultures. This focus...

Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia.
September 1, 1995... Ten of the eleven chapters of this book began life as papers for a 1989 symposium, "The Manipulation of Mystical Agency and Explanations of Personal Misfortune in Southeast Asia", sponsored by the University of Kent at Canterbury. The revisions,...

Cambodia: The Legacy and Lessons of UNTAC.
September 1, 1995... Trevor Findlay has written a detailed research report on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and the election there in may 1993, based on impressive documentation, official, academic, and journalistic, plus interviews...

Whither Cambodia? Beyond the Election.
September 1, 1995... Trevor Findlay has written a detailed research report on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and the election there in may 1993, based on impressive documentation, official, academic, and journalistic, plus interviews...

The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Naualu Animal Categories from Central Seram.
September 1, 1995... This is a work of rare depth and detail in a field of enquiry that has been germinal in anthropological theory. Since the path-breaking works of Durkheim and Mauss, and Levi-Strauss, which relied on secondary materials arguably of variable...

Indonesian Political Biography: In Search of Cross-Cultural Understanding.
September 1, 1995... This volume is a collection of essays on seven prominent Indonesian political and intellectual leaders in the twentieth century. In his introduction and concluding chapters, Angus McIntyre points out that foreign Indonesianists tend to be...

Soviet-Indonesian Relations: From Lenin to Gorbachev.
September 1, 1995... In the past, some Sovietologists noted that national interests of defence and security along with domestic conditions were often much stronger than the desire to spread world revolution in determining Soviet foreign policy in the West and East....

The Malayan Emergency: The Commonwealth's War, 1948-1966.
September 1, 1995... For readers familiar with Malayan history, the "Emergency" is normally associated with the twelve-year period of insurgency launched by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) in 1948 and which ended officially in 1960. This book by Robert Jackson,...

Industrialising Malaysia: Policy, Performance, Prospects.
September 1, 1995... Government policy on industrialization in Malaysia is a little understood subject, despite its importance and contributions to the country's quest to become an advanced, industrialized state in the next 20 years. On top of that, the relationships...

Historical Dictionary of Singapore.
September 1, 1995... As the title suggests, this is a small encyclopaedia of Singapore history and the first such publication in English and perhaps in any language. It is published as Volume 7 of the Asian Historical Dictionaries series of which other volumes (1-6)...

Bibliography on Ethnic Relations with Special Reference to Malaysia and Singapore.
September 1, 1995... Bibliographies are supposed to be difficult things to review: they are after all texts apparently simply listing texts rather than books in their own right. But actually they are very revealing literary artefacts which say a lot about the state...

Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island.
September 1, 1995... Jean-Paul Dumont conducted fieldwork on the Philippine island of Siquijor (which is located in the southern Visayas, between Cebu and the northwest coast of Mindanao) in 1980 and 1981, revisiting the island in 1983 and 1986. This book is a...

The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence.
September 1, 1995... One of the more intriguing - some would claim bizarre and/or politically motivated - episodes in the history of late 20th century anthropology is the ongoing controversy that surrounds a couple of dozen (now expanded to 70 or so) people who live...

Thai Constructions of Knowledge.
September 1, 1995... Representing a wide range of disciplines and research interests, the nine essays which comprise Thai Constructions of Knowledge are linked together by a common interest in the authority and production of cultural knowledge. In his able...

Reminiscences of Old Bangkok: Memory and the Identification of a Changing Society.
September 1, 1995... Reminiscences of Old Bangkok contains valuable insights into the undercurrents of urban life in Bangkok, but the flow of the information is seriously impeded by poor editing and poor English usage. The book consists of two parts: Part I is...

Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism.
September 1, 1995... The study of Vietnamese politics is much in need of sophisticated works by foreign scholars. Gareth Porter's Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism is an important advance in its field, perhaps the best description and analysis of...

Indochina in the 1940s and 1950s.
September 1, 1995... Indochina in the 1940s and 1950s, edited by Takashi Shiraishi and Motoo Furuta, is the second of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program's translation series Contemporary Japanese Scholarship on Southeast Asia. The series begins to make the work of...