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Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power.
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Southeast Asian Perspectiveson Power; Copyright; Content; Figures; Note on contributors; Foreword: In search of power in Southeast Asia; Acknowledgements; 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-made objects by the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia.
- 7. The anthropology of a necessary mistake: The unsettled dead and the imagined state in contemporary Singapore8. Privateers, politicians, prowess and power; 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; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.