Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Wolters, O. W. Early southeast asia : selected essays / O.W. Wolters ; edited by Craig J. Reynolds. Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University c2008.
This is an important work, though not for reasons one might suspect. It is a collection of scholarly essays on early Southeast Asian history and culture, all of [...]

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Di cư và chuyển đổi lối sống. English. [Migration and change in the way of life : an anthropological introduction to the Vietnamese community in Laos] / Nguyen Duy Thieu, editor. Hanoi : Thế Giới Publishers, 2008.
This is a collection of ethnographic essays on the Vietnamese population in Laos. It is the fruit of a [...]

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Tai lands and Thailand : community and state in Southeast Asia / edited by Andrew Walker. Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University Of Hawai’i Press, c2009.
This edited volume, featuring essays by Andrew Walker, Craig J. Reynolds, and Holly High, among other notable scholars, offers a new approach to the study [...]

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Back issues of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (BCAS) are now available online at no charge for the years 1968 to 1983 (click on the archives tab). The BCAS, currently published under the title Critical Asian Studies (also available free of charge), is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles on Asia and the [...]

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The Middle Mekong River Basin : studies in Tai history and culture / edited by Constance M. Wilson. DeKalb, Ill. : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, c2009.
The essays in this collection, two of which (those written by John Hartman and Constance Wilson) were originally presented as papers at the International Convention of [...]

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Warren, James Francis. Pirates, prostitutes and pullers : explorations in the ethno- and social history of Southeast Asia / James Warren. Crawley : University Of Western Australia Press, 2008.
The essays in this collection touch upon or expand on all the major themes and subjects presented in James Warren’s three best-known monographs: The Sulu zone, 1768-1898 [...]

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A 20 million dollar Thai cultural complex, featuring a Buddhist temple, meditation center, restaurant, floating market, and other open air structures, is coming to Pataskala, Ohio. See the article in the Columbus Dispatch.

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Peletz, Michael G. Gender pluralism : southeast Asia since early modern times. New York : Routledge, 2009.
This volume explores the important issue of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia from an anthropological and historical perspective. Unlike most works of this nature, which use the term “gender studies” as a trope for “women’s studies”, Peletz examines [...]

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M̄ækhōng-Sālawin : phūkhon, ph̄ưnnam, læ Suwannaphūm kh̨ōng ʻUsākhanē = Mekong-Salween : peoples, waters and the golden land of Suvarnabhumi/Southeast Asia / [bannāthikān, Chānwit Kasētsiri]. Samut Prākān : Mūnnithi Tōyōtā Prathēt Thai ; Krung Thēp : Mūnnithi Khrōngkān Tamrā Sangkhommasāt læ Manutsayasāt, 2551 [2008].
The two volumes pictured here cover a wide range of topics related to [...]

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Ba, Alice D. (Re)negotiating East and Southeast Asia : region, regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.

Scholarly interest in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as a subject of study has grown by leaps and bounds during the past few years. The present volume is a welcome [...]

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