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Development In Spirit - Religious Transformation And Everyday Politics In Vietnam'S Highlands

by Seb Rumsby

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 As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Development in Spirit explores the practices employed by communities on the fringes of such nation-building projects.
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Repossessing Shanland - Myanmar, Thailand, And A Nation-State Deferred

by Jane M. Ferguson

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 Based on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane Ferguson tells the story of the Shan in their own voices, showing how the Shan have forged a homeland and identity during great upheaval.
Of Beggars And Buddhas - The Politics Of Humor In The Vessantara Jataka In Thailand

by Katherine A. Bowie

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 The Buddhist jatakas recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions. Taking an anthropological approach to this tale, Katherine Bowie highlights local variations in its interpretations and performances.
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Repossessing Shanland - Myanmar, Thailand, And A Nation-State Deferred

by Jane M. Ferguson

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 Based on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane Ferguson tells the story of the Shan in their own voices. She shows how they have forged a homeland and identity during upheaval by using state building as a project of resistance, resilience, and accommodation.
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Eliciting Care - Health And Power In Northern Thailand

by Bo Kyeong Seo

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 In 2001, Thailand introduced universal health care reforms that have become some of the most celebrated in the world. Drawing on two years of fieldwork at a district hospital in northern Thailand, Bo Kyeong Seo examines how people in marginal and dependent social positions negotiate the process of obtaining care.
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Rise Of The Brao - Ethnic Minorities In Northeastern Cambodia During Vietnamese Occupation

by Ian G. Baird

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 In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge. This book ecxplores this troubled period.
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Royal Capitalism - Wealth, Class, And Monarchy In Thailand

by Puangchon Unchanam

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 Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX and how the crown thrived by transforming itself into a ""bourgeois"" monarchy.
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Philippine Sanctuary - A Holocaust Odyssey

by Bonnie M. Harris

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 Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1,300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine president Manual Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Bonnie Harris offers fuller implications for our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust.
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Vietnam'S Strategic Thinking During The Third Indochina War

by Kosal Path

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 In contrast to earlier studies, Path traces changing policy priorities, providing a vital addition to existing scholarship on asymmetric wartime decision-making and alliance formation among small states. The result uncovers how this critical period had lasting implications for the ways Vietnam continues to conduct itself on the global stage.
In Plain Sight - Impunity And Human Rights In Thailand

by Tyrell Haberkorn

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 Following a 1932 coup d'Ã©tat in Thailand that established a constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed political dissent. In Plain Sight shows how abuses, both hidden and occurring in public view, have become institutionalized through a chronic failure to hold perpetrators accountable.
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Feeding Manila In Peace And War, 1850â€“1945

by Daniel F. Doeppers

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 Getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century's most formidable challenges. This innovative history traces nearly a century in the life of the megacity of Manila to show how it grew and what sustained it.
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Everyday Economic Survival In Myanmar

by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung

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 Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows, eking out a living from day to day leaves little time for civic engagement.
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A Reckoning - Philippine Trials Of Japanese War Criminals

by Sharon W. Chamberlain

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 Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were trials conducted by Asians, not Western powers, and centred on the abuses suffered by local inhabitants rather than by prisoners of war.
Dead In The Water - Global Lessons From The World Bank'S Model Hydropower Project In Laos

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 In the 2000s, as the World Bank was reeling from revelations of past hydropower failures, it nonetheless promoted the enormous Nam Theun 2 project. For the first time, this book shows in detail why, despite assertions of success from the World Bank and other agencies, the dam's true story has been one of substantial loss for affected villagers and the regional environment.
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Hamka'S Great Story - A Master Writer'S Vision Of Islam For Modern Indonesia

by James R. Rush

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 Presents Indonesia through the eyes of a popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass. This sweeping biography also illustrates how public debates about religion are shaping national societies in the postcolonial world.
Of Beggars And Buddhas - The Politics Of Humor In The Vessantara Jataka In Thailand

by Katherine A. Bowie

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 An exploration of subversive, ribald variations of the most important story in Theravada Buddhism.
Feeding Manila In Peace And War, 1850â€“1945

by Daniel F. Doeppers

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 The first book to explore the critical problem of provisioning the megacity. A historical study of Manila looks at the continuing challenges of getting food, water, and services to the millions of people who live in the world s megacities."
The Social World Of Batavia - Europeans And Eurasians In Colonial Indonesia

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 In the 17th century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia's social world.
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Dreams Of The Hmong Kingdom - The Quest For Legitimation In French Indochina, 1850â€“1960

by Mai Na M. Lee

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 Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the â€œSecret Warâ€ in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.
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Amazons Of The Huk Rebellion - Gender, Sex, And Revolution In The Philippines

by Alfred W. Mccoy e Vina A. Lanzona

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 Labeled "Amazons" by the national press, women played a central role in the Huk rebellion, one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in modern Philippine history.
From Rebellion To Riots - Collective Violence On Indonesian Borneo

by Alfred W. Mccoy e Jamie Davidson

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 Offers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.
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Viet Nam - Borderless Histories

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 Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. This book explores topics such as the extraordinary diversity between north and south, lowland and highland, and Viet and minority.
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Pretext For Mass Murder - The September 30th Movement And Suharto'S Coup D'Etat In Indonesia

by John Roosa

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 In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was defeated as the senior surviving general drove the movement's partisans out of Jakarta.
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Dead In The Water - Global Lessons From The World Bank'S Model Hydropower Project In Laos

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