Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

by Adams, Kathleen M.; Gillogly, Kathleen A.

• ISBN13: 9780253223210
• ISBN10: 0253223210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-18
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and insular countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity; family and household organization; nation-states; religion; popular culture and the arts; the legacies of war and recovery; globalization; and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experiences of ordinary people. Most of the essays are original to this volume, while a few are widely taught classics. All were chosen for their timeliness and interest, and are ideally suited for the classroom.

Author Biography

Kathleen M. Adams is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Kathleen A. Gillogly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on Transliteration	p. xi
Maps	p. xiv
Introduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday Life	p. 1
Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities	p. 9
Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect	p. 14
Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective	p. 27
Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos	p. 37
A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia	p. 47
Family, Households, and Livelihoods	p. 59
Maling, a Hanunóo Girl from the Philippines	p. 65
Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand	p. 79
Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order	p. 89
Crafting the Nation-State	p. 101
Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand	p. 107
Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore	p. 117
Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam	p. 127
World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity	p. 137
The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand	p. 143
Javanese Women and the Veil	p. 154
Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines	p. 165
Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment	p. 177
Cultivating ôCommunityö in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace	p. 182
The Fall of Thai Rocky	p. 195
Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun	p. 206
Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam	p. 218
War and Recovery	p. 231
Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam	p. 237
Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism	p. 247
The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge	p. 258
Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations	p. 269
When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home	p. 273
ôThey Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What to Doö: Schooling Malaysian Indigenes	p. 283
Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia's Borderlands	p. 295
Just Below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll	p. 304
References	p. 317
Selected Film Resources	p. 343
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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