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The most influential books of Southeast Asian Studies.(Editor's Note)(List)

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

| April 01, 2009 | Yew-Foong, Hui | COPYRIGHT 2009 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A brief note is in order to explain this special issue, which is quite unlike most special issues of journals. To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in 2008, the editorial team of SOJOURN decided to come up with a list of "Ten Most Influential Books on Southeast Asia". The idea seems straightforward, but the discerning will quickly realize that generating such a list is an encounter with controversy at every turn.

We decided to pass the conundrum to our eminent International Advisory Members (IAM). They were each invited to nominate ten books that:

a) have influenced theory formation and/or empirical perceptions in ...

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