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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Heywood, Denise. Cambodian dance : celebration of the gods / Denise Heywood. Bangkok : River ; [London : Distributed by Thames & Hudson], 2008.
Here Denise Heywood, author of Ancient Luang Prabang. Bangkok : River Books, 2006, explores the rich history of classical dance in Cambodia. The book examines the origins of classical dance during the [...]

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Holt, John. Spirits of the place : Buddhism and Lao religious culture. Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press, c2009.
Here John Holt, a well-known scholar of Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist history and culture, enters previously uncharted territory with a study of religious culture in Laos. A newcomer to the study of Lao Buddhism (a relative newcomer, [...]

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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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State of authority : the state in society in Indonesia / Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker, editors. Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, c2009.
This monograph is part of a larger, “revisionist” trend in the scholarship on post-colonial Indonesia. Whereas in the past, the bulk of Western-language scholarship on Indonesia depicted the State as [...]

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Na Tai : ngān wičhai čhāk chumchon chāidǣn Tai sū nayōbāi sāthārana. Nakhō̜n Pathom : Sūn Sưksā læ Phatthanā Santi Withī, Mahāwitthayālai Mahidon, 2551 [2008].
This volume, compiled by scholars from the Research Center for Peace Building at Mahidol University, brings together 16 essays and policy papers on the current social and political situation in Thailand’s [...]

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Chang Noi. Jungle book : Thailand’s politics, moral panic, and plunder, 1996-2008. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.
Chang Noi (a pseudonym, meaning ‘Little Elephant’) is at once one of the most respected and controversial newspaper columnists in Thailand today. Readers revere him for his trenchant insights, uncompromising integrity, and sardonic wit. At the same [...]

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Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau. Memory is another country : women of the Vietnamese diaspora. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2009.
One of the most well documented events of the American war was the mass exodus of South Vietnamese (as well as political dissidents from the north) following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Drawing largely from [...]

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Evans, Grant. The last century of Lao royalty : a documentary history. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.
This is a very welcome addition to the existing scholarship (which is dreadfully scant) on Lao history. Here Evans attempts to “recover” memories of the Lao royal family. With the communist victory in 1975, the Lao [...]

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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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