Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

ISBN-13: 9780415683456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Liana Chua; Joanna Cook; Nicholas Long

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This volume explores the myriad manifestations, tropes and experiences of 'power' in Southeast Asia. The contributors address the surprising absence of direct scholarly engagement with the theme of 'power' in Southeast Asia given innumerable social, political and economic transformations of the region over the last half-century.

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Foreword: In Search of Power in Southeast Asia  1. Introduction: Power and Orientation in Southeast Asia  2. The Subject of Power in Southeast Asia  3. Power, Protection and Perfectibility: Aspiration and Materiality in Thailand  4. Sakti Reconsidered: Power and the Disenchantment of the World  5. Landscape, Power and Agency in Eastern Indonesia  6. The Symbolic Appropriation of War-Related Objects by the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia  7. The Anthropology of a Necessary Mistake: The Unsettled Dead and the Imagined State in Contemporary Singapore  8. Privateers, Politicians, Prowess and Power in Indonesia  9. Bureaucratic Migrants and the Potential of Prosperity in Upland Laos  10. Living on the Horizon of the Everlasting Present: Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia  11. Apparitions of Sapiocracy: Vietnam’s Emergent Welfare State and the Restless Dead of Thanh Ha  12. From the Power of Prayer to Prayer Power: On Religion and Revolt in the Modern Philippines