Culture and Development in Southeast Asia
Author | : David B. Wangsgard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David B. Wangsgard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shinji Yamashita |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | : 9781571812568 |
The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.
Author | : Edwin Thumboo |
Publisher | : Arts National University of Singapore |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karl L. Hutterer |
Publisher | : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0891480390 |
Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.
Author | : Lee Hock Guan |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9812304827 |
Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.
Author | : Terence Chong |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9812303162 |
This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.
Author | : O. W. Wolters |
Publisher | : SEAP Publications |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780877277255 |
A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.
Author | : John Clammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ram Prakash Anand |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yao Souchou |
Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789812300751 |
Drawing on critical theory and post-modernism, this book argues for a new strategy for writing about the social and cultural experiences of living in modern Southeast Asian states. Contributors -- many of whom work in universities in the region -- question the processes of cultural transformation under conditions of globalization and rapid economic and political change. By paying attention to the specificity of what is taking place in the particular state, the book questions the conventional narratives of developmentalism and state-sponsored national peace as they are understood in Southeast Asia, and shows how such understanding can be made and unmade.