Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from September 1996

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from September 1996

Discarding the basket: the reinterpretation of tradition by Akha Christians of Northern Thailand.
September 1, 1996... Akha Protestants in Northern Thailand celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial conversions to Christianity in April, 1987. As the theme of this Silver Jubilee, Akha organizers chose a passage from the Akha language translation of...

Reading the Bible in a Javanese village.
September 1, 1996... On most Wednesday evenings around seven in a hamlet in Central Java's highlands the sound of group singing breaks through the blare of a neighbouring TV set. There is no gamelan accompaniment, and the scale used is Western, not Javanese. This...

Response to Dr. John Clammer's review of 'The Preservation and Adaptation of Tradition: Studies on Chinese Religious Expression in Southeast Asia' (Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography 9) and 'Bibliography on Ethnic Relations with Special Reference to Malaysia and Singapore' (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, 2, Sep. 1995: 455-56).(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 1996... While I appreciate John Clammer's various criticisms and comments, his overall approach reflects a certain unfairness. In connection with Chinese Religion, Clammer mentioned a wide range of topics which are not covered. These include almost all...

Indochine, la colonisation ambigue: 1858-1954.
September 1, 1996... It should first be mentioned that for various editorial reasons, this book has been long in the making, as its first version was basically completed in 1987-88, then totally reworked and added to before publication in 1995. From the very...

Inside Austronesian Houses, Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living.
September 1, 1996... The book collects together eight papers originally presented at a workshop on House and Household held in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University as part of its Comparative Austronesia Project. The common...

Chinese Organisations in Southeast Asia in the 1930s.
September 1, 1996... This edited volume is an important contribution to the field of research relating to the Chinese in Southeast Asia. It provides valuable insight into the way in which Japanese authorities in the 1930s and the early 1940s perceived the Chinese in...

L'Asie du Sud-Est.
September 1, 1996... Rodolphe de Koninck has presented, in the French language, a very well structured and carefully written book on the physical and human geography of Southeast Asia. It is a very good introductory text for francophones who wish to study about this...

Broadcasting in the Malay World.
September 1, 1996... This book not only traces the development and impact of radio, television, and video on four nations located in Southeast Asia, it describes the forces (political, social, economic) that have shaped the broadcast media in the four countries:...

Brunei Checklist: A Bibliography of English-language References Relating to Brunei Darussalam.
September 1, 1996... The establishment of Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) in 1985 was a significant gamble in the political development of a conservative state. If the university was to be taken seriously internationally, and contribute to Brunei's image as...

Reporting Cambodia in the Australian Media: "Heroic" Journalism or Neo-Colonial Distortions?
September 1, 1996... Reporting Cambodia is part of the Reporting Asia series edited by the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. With the recent Australian "push into Asia", this series of...

Kampung Jawa Tondano: Religion and Cultural Identity.
September 1, 1996... Ethnography is writing about people. It is an anthropologist's interpretation or analysis of the culture of the people being studied. The role of the anthropologist as an ethnographer through his ethnography is to present to his readers how...

Women and Mediation in Indonesia.
September 1, 1996... This collection of 14 essays examines sociological, anthropological and historical aspects of women and mediation. Mediation studies, which developed during the 1960s and 70s, have tended to concentrate on the role of men, and a book dealing with...

A Japanese Memoir of Sumatra, 1945-1946: Love and Hatred in the Liberation War.
September 1, 1996... This is a fascinating memoir of the revolutionary chaos following the Japanese surrender in East Sumatra, which adds a valuable Japanese perspective to the Indonesian, Dutch, and British sources which dominate our understanding of the dramatic...

Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca: 1641-1795.
September 1, 1996... This book represents a revised edition of the author's Ph.D. thesis accepted by the Australian National University in 1991. Chapters 2 and 5 have been previously published as articles. The title links the present work with extant accounts of...

Java under the Cultivation System.
September 1, 1996... This book contains ten essays on the Cultivation System in Java by the eminent American scholar Van Niel, written over a period of almost twenty-five years. The Cultivation System was a most remarkable system of colonial exploitation, which set a...

Politiek-Politioneele Overzichten van Nederlandsch-Indie. Deel IV: 1935-1941.
September 1, 1996... This publication is the fourth part of the series of reports produced by the Internal Security Department of the Netherlands Indies government. They span the period 1935 till 1941, a time when the colonial authority seemed set to continue...

"Di Dalam Berkekalan Persahabatan", "In Everlasting Friendship". Letters from Raja Ali Haji.
September 1, 1996... Both Jan van der Putten and Al Azhar who prepared and edited this selection of private letters written by the prolific nineteenth-century Bugis-Malay writer, Raja Ali Haji to Hermann von de Wall who was working on a Malay-Dutch dictionary for the...

War Nationalism and Peasants. Java under the Japanese Occupation: 1942-1945.
September 1, 1996... The Japanese Occupation of Indonesia is, as Shigeru Sato correctly points out, usually treated as a background to the revolution and economic and social consequences of the Japanese occupation have been neglected. To redress this imbalance, Sato...

Halmahera and Beyond. Social Science Research in the Moluccas.
September 1, 1996... The title implies that this book is geared specifically toward northern Maluku. In fact articles cover central, southern and southeastern Maluku as well. Maluku is composed of diverse ethnic groups with unique histories and cultural adaptations...

Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
September 1, 1996... Fourteen years in the making, Tragic Mountains is surely veteran American correspondent and Southeast Asia specialist Jane Hamilton-Merritt's most important work yet, the fruit of more than thirty years' association with the Hmong people in Laos,...

Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp.
September 1, 1996... The English language literature on the Hmong people has grown with extraordinary rapidity over the past decade or so. A recent glance at OCLC's (Online Computer Library Center) "Worldcat" reveals 788 items under the heading "Hmong: Asian people",...

Slavery in the Spanish Philippines.
September 1, 1996... This work by the retired missionary and historian William Henry Scott adds an impressive contribution to his published works on the history of the Philippine Archipelago and its peoples, including Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of...

The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore.
September 1, 1996... To what does Singapore owe its success as one of the "little tigers" of Asia? It certainly did not have an auspicious start as an independent notion by being expelled from Malaysia in 1965. It then had everything to do with creating a sense of...

Chen Shengtang Wenji.
September 1, 1996... Since its founding in 1982, the Singapore Society of Asian Studies has published a number of useful monographs which have enriched our knowledge about Southeast Asia, especially about the history of Chinese communities in the region. The recent...

Wu Dunmin Zhenglunji.
September 1, 1996... Since its founding in 1982, the Singapore Society of Asian Studies has published a number of useful monographs which have enriched our knowledge about Southeast Asia, especially about the history of Chinese communities in the region. The recent...

Papers on Tai Languages, Linguistics and Literature.
September 1, 1996... Compared to other Festschrifts in honor of Professor William J. Gedney, this volume with a variety of papers on synchronic and diachronic studies of Tai languages and Thai literature best represents the prominent professor's versatile ability....

Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand.
September 1, 1996... William A. Smalley begins his masterful work on language ecology in Thailand with the observation that unlike India, language differences in Thailand have never become "symbolically enlarged and sharpened in people's perceptions" nor grown to...

The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam.
September 1, 1996... This volume seeks to study an important aspect of Vietnamese society. The status and the activities of the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam have gone through deep changes both in historical times and in modern times, particularly since 1975. The book is...

World Bibliographic Series, vol. 147, Vietnam.
September 1, 1996... For the volume on Vietnam in the World Bibliographic Series, David Marr has annotated over one thousand entries, written an extensive introduction, which is organized around the twin foci of prehistory and political history, and prepared a...

Vietnam, 1945: The Quest for Power.
September 1, 1996... In 1945 the end of the Second World War merged with the beginning of a new era of global conflict. This was the era of decolonisation which led to the fall of Western imperialism in Asia and Africa. For Vietnam, a French colony in Asia, 1945 was...