SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 2001

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 2001

A Question of Identity: Names, Societies, and Ethnic Groups. in Interior Kalimantan and Brunei Darussalam.
April 1, 2001... One of the major preoccupations of the anthropological literature on Southeast Asia in general and the island of Borneo in particular is that of the problem of identifying, defining and naming ethnic categories (the conceptual dimension of...

Performing Identity: Musical Expression of Thai-Chinese in Contemporary Bangkok.
April 1, 2001... To come from elsewhere, from "there" and not "here", and hence to be simultaneously "inside" and "outside", is to live at the intersections of histories and memories, experiencing both their preliminary dispersal and their...

Local Dynamics of Renegotiating Ritual Space in Northern Vietnam: The Case of the Dinh.
April 1, 2001... In the sacred geography of pre-revolutionary Northern Vietnamese villages, the village communal house (dinh lang) was the most prominent architectural edifice.(1) As seat of the village administration, it was the place where the Council of...

Creolized Utopias: Squatter Colonies and the Post-Colonial City in Malaysia.
April 1, 2001... "Shanty towns", "spontaneous dwellings", and "squatter colonies" are established topics in the literature on "Third World" cities and urbanization. Until recently, these discussions were customarily framed within two contending theoretical...

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Indonesian Chinese after the Fall of Soeharto.
April 1, 2001... The fall of Soeharto on 21 May 1998 marked another radical turn in Indonesia since independence. While the fall of Soeharto has initiated a democratic transition process, it has also caused much misery. Even today the new government under...

Restaurants in Little India, Singapore: A Study of Spatial Organization and Pragmatic Cultural Change.
April 1, 2001... Food has an array of representations that make it far from being culturally neutral, even though it may appear otherwise. It is strongly associated with identity, prestige, social place, and symbolic meanings (Narayan 1997). Frequently, food...

Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century.
April 1, 2001... Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Linda H. Connor and Raechelle Rubinstein. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 353 pp. This book grew out of the papers presented at the Third...

Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand.
April 1, 2001... Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand. By Chris Lyttleton. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. 260 pp. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) swept into the consciousness of most Thais in the early 1990s....

Indonesia Beyond Suharto: Polity, Economy, Society, Transition.
April 1, 2001... Indonesia Beyond Suharto: Polity, Economy, Society, Transition. Edited by Donald K. Emmerson. New York: Asia Society and M.E. Sharpe, 1999. 295 pp. Indonesia Beyond Suharto is an edited volume that covers various aspects of the New Order...

The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality.
April 1, 2001... The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Edited by James J. Fox. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. 204 pp. ...