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Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity /

This book brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. An introduction outlines important social transformations in Southeast Asia and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lindquist, Johan (Editor ), Harms, Erik (Anthropologist) (Editor ), Barker, Joshua, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Philippines / Smita Lahiri and Deirdre de la Cruz
  • Domestic helper / Jose B. Capino
  • Chinese mestizo / Richard T. Chu
  • Filipino seaman / Kale Bantigue Fajardo
  • Public manager / Anna Romina Guevarra
  • Lawless element / Orlando de Guzman
  • Agriculturalist / Adam Lukasiewicz
  • Bakla returnee / Martin F. Manalansan
  • Call center agent / Jan M. Padios
  • Community health worker / Mai M. Taqueban
  • Beauty contestant / T. Ruanni F. Tupas
  • Vietnam / Erik Harms
  • Petty trader / Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • Prostitute / Christophe Robert
  • Domestic investor / Allison Truitt
  • Enterprising cadre / Ken MacLean
  • Soviet-trained scientist / Christina Schwenkel
  • Aspiring overseas student / Erik Harms
  • A Cham Hʼroi girl / Truong Huyen Chi
  • Mountain village head / Christian C. Lentz
  • Photo retoucher / Nina Hien
  • Cultural expert / Lauren Meeker
  • Vietnamese transnational(s) / Ivan Small
  • Cambodia / Jonathan Padwe
  • Cham modernizer / Alberto Perez-Pereiro
  • World musician / Stephen Mamula
  • Village police chief / Eve Zucker
  • Broken woman / Annuska Derks
  • (Buddhist) Ascetic who remembers past lives / Erik Davis
  • Government official / Jenna Grant
  • Laos / Jerome Whitington
  • Miss Beer Lao / Holly High
  • Mobile phone monk / Patrice Ladwig
  • Mitigation expert / Michael Dwyer
  • Hippie, interrupted / N.J. Enfield
  • Beleaguered village leader / Jerome Whitington
  • Thailand / Jane M. Ferguson
  • Grassroots woman leader / LeeRay Costa
  • Bangkok slum leader / Pilapa Esara
  • Transnational farmworker / Sudarat Musikawong
  • Thai Airways flight attendant / Jane M. Ferguson
  • Kickboxer / Pattana Kitiarsa
  • Single woman / Emily Zeamer
  • Rural DJ / Julia Cassaniti
  • Spirit medium / Andrew Johnson
  • Hmong-Thai schoolgirl / Tracy Pilar Johnson
  • Indonesia / Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist
  • Telecommunications and multimedia expert / Karen Strassler
  • Muslim television preacher / James Hoesterey
  • Spiritual trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj
  • Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff
  • Activist / Doreen Lee
  • Ex-combatant from the Free Aceh Movement / Jesse Grayman
  • NGO worker / Aryo Danusiri
  • Overseas female labor migrant / Rachel Silvey
  • Field agent / Johan Lindquist
  • Street vendor / Sheri Gibbings
  • Street kid(s) / Chris Brown
  • Mr. Hajj / Dadi Darmadi
  • Rich person / Joshua Barker
  • Career woman / Carla Jones
  • Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan
  • National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann
  • Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter
  • Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
  • Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus
  • Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C.H. Lee
  • Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng
  • Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan
  • Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster
  • Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg
  • Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
  • Malay gangster / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
  • Bangladeshi worker / Md Mizanur Rahman
  • Woman activist / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
  • Peri-urban tenant / Loh Kah Seng
  • The people's filmmaker / Liew Kai Khiun
  • Schoolteacher / Adeline Koh
  • Social entrepreneur / Erik Holmberg
  • Burma / Nicholas Farrelly
  • Urban dumsa / Mandy Sadan
  • Journalist / Thomas Kean
  • Political prisoner / David Scott Mathieson
  • Exile / David Gilbert and Violet Cho
  • Sex worker in Thailand / Ikuko Okamoto
  • Tatmadaw officer / Jacqueline Menager
  • Korean soap opera junkie / Aung Si
  • Entrepreneur / Nicholas Farrelly
  • Indie musician / Aung Naing Thu (pseudonym).