Hannah C. M. Bulloch David P. Chandler Rita Smith Kipp
How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people's histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a "Western" metaphor ordering global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is development assimilated into the worldviews of development's subjects? How does it reshape identities and in what ways is it reshaped in the...
How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people's histories, their unders...
Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sasana, the life of the Buddha's teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha's sasana was deteriorating. This fear of decline drove waves of activity and organizing to prevent the loss of the Buddha's teachings. Burmese set out to save Buddhism, but achieved...
Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the tu...
European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August as usual. Thereafter, the 70th anniversaries of Indonesian, Vietnamese and Korean independence will get mainly local attention. Aiming to redress this imbalance, 'End of Empire' focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia - a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce been Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were...
European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August...
European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August as usual. Thereafter, the 70th anniversaries of Indonesian, Vietnamese and Korean independence will get mainly local attention. Aiming to redress this imbalance, 'End of Empire' focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia - a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce been Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were...
European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August...
Christina Elizabeth Firpo David P. Chandler Rita Smith Kipp
For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted metis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted metis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or...
Gregory M. Simon David P. Chandler Rita Smith Kipp
An intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, calling into question many assumptions about Southeast Asian values and the nature of Islamic practice.
An intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnograp...