SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from October 2000

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from October 2000

Thai Rural Enterprise Development Strategies in the 1990s: A Critical Appraisal.
October 1, 2000... Rural small-scale enterprise promotion has been pushed to the forefront of development strategies in recent years. It is now considered a mainstream strategy for promoting not just economic but also social development. Small-scale enterprise is...

Human Sacrifice and Slavery in the "Unadministered" Areas of Upper Burma During the Colonial Era.
October 1, 2000... By the end of World War I, the British colonial system had evolved a set of compromises between the demands of the British public for social reforms based on Western values and the diverse native customs and the cultural practices of...

Gender, "Aliens", and the National Imaginary in Contemporary Malaysia.
October 1, 2000... In a period characterized by deepening disparities of wealth and population within and between nation-states, wars, and accelerated globalization, huge numbers of people have been displaced from their territories, brutally contained within...

Ethnicity, Art, and Politics Away from the Indonesian Centre.
October 1, 2000... As Indonesians attempt to overcome civil unrest and question the sustainability of the celebrated ideology of Unity in Diversity, many of the nation's artists have been at the forefront of moves towards ethnic and religious reconciliation....

Ancestor Worship and Identity: Ritual, Interpretation, and Social Normalization in the Malaysian Chinese Community.
October 1, 2000... Ancestor worship has historically been one of the central institutions of Chinese society regardless of temporal and geographic boundaries. As such, ancestor worship has been a popular and fruitful area of investigation for social scientists...

Confucianism and Human Rights.
October 1, 2000... Confucianism and Human Rights. Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 408 pp. This is a collection of fifteen papers, with a Preface and an Introduction by de Bary, and an Epilogue each by...

The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade, and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, China, Thailand and Burma.
October 1, 2000... The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade, and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, China, Thailand and Burma. By Andrew Walker. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. 232 pp. In the economic historiography of mainland Southeast Asia,...

Pierced by Murugan's Lance: Ritual, Power and Moral Redemption among Malaysian Hindus.
October 1, 2000... Pierced by Murugan's Lance: Ritual, Power and Moral Redemption among Malaysian Hindus. By Elizabeth Fuller Collins. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 1997. 254 pp. As I see it, Collins' focus on the Thaipusam procession in Penang serves as...

Ban Amphawan et Ban Han. Le devenir de deux villages rizicoles du Nord-Est thailandais.
October 1, 2000... Ban Amphawan et Ban Han. Le devenir de deux villages rizicoles du NordEst thailandais. Edited by Bernard Formoso. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, CNRS Editions, 1997. 754 pp. This substantial book is a thoroughly researched...