Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

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The peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia

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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 island 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.

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Maps
Introduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday Life
Part 1. Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities
1. Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect / Lorraine V. Aragon
2. Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective / Andrew Causey
3. Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos / Holly High
4. A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia / Judith Nagata
Part 2. Family, Households, and Livelihoods
5. Maling: A Hanunóo Girl from the Philippines / Harold C. Conklin
6. Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly
7. Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order / Lucien M. Hanks, Jr.
Part 3. Crafting the Nation-State
8. Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand / Hjorleifur Jonsson
9. Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore / John Clammer
10. Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
Part 4. World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity
11. The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington
12. Javanese Women and the Veil / Nancy Smith-Hefner
13. Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele
Part 5. Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment
14. Cultivating "Community" in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace / Kathleen M. Adams
15. The Fall of Thai Rocky / Pattana Kitiarsa
16. Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun / Sandra Cate
17. Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam / Nir Avieli
Part 6. War and Recovery
18. Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney
19. Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism / Elizabeth G. Traube
20. The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge / Eve Monique Zucker
Part 7. Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations
21. When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home / Chris Lyttleton
22. "They Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What To Do": Schooling Malaysian Indigenes / Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo
23. Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia's Borderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons
24. Just below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll / Gene Ammarell
References
Selected Film Resources
Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Asian Studies
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Religión
• Sociology
• East Asian religions
• Ethnography
• Southeast Asia
• History of Asia
• Anthropology
• Eastern
• Religion
• Islam
• Asia

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253001054
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Everyday Life in Southeast Asia
Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

EDITED BY
Kathleen M. Adams and Kathleen A. Gillogly
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Everyday life in Southeast Asia / edited by Kathleen M. Adams and Kathleen A. Gillogly. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35637-6 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-22321-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ethnology-Southeast Asia. 2. Southeast Asia-Social life and customs. 3. Southeast Asia-Religious life and customs. I. Adams, Kathleen M., [date] II. Gillogly, Kathleen. GN635.S58E94 2011 959-dc22
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
MAPS

Introduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday Life
Kathleen A. Gillogy and Kathleen M. Adams
Part One Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities
1 Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect
Lorraine V. Aragon
2 Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective
Andrew Causey
3 Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos
Holly High
4 A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia
Judith Nagata
Part Two Family, Households, and Livelihoods
5 Maling, a Hanun o Girl from the Philippines
Harold C. Conklin
6 Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand
Kathleen Gillogly
7 Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order
Lucien M. Hanks, Jr.
Part Three Crafting the Nation-State
8 Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand
Hjorleifur Jonsson
9 Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore
John Clammer
10 Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam
Christina Schwenkel
Part Four World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity
11 The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand
Susan M. Darlington
12 Javanese Women and the Veil
Nancy Smith-Hefner
13 Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines
Katharine L. Wiegele
Part Five Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment
14 Cultivating Community in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace
Kathleen M. Adams
15 The Fall of Thai Rocky
Pattana Kitiarsa
16 Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun
Sandra Cate
17 Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam
Nir Avieli
Part Six War and Recovery
18 Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam
Shaun Kingsley Malarney
19 Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism
Elizabeth G. Traube
20 The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge
Eve Monique Zucker
Part Seven Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations
21 When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home
Chris Lyttleton
22 They Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What to Do : Schooling Malaysian Indigenes
Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo
23 Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia s Borderlands
Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons
24 Just Below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll
Gene Ammarell
REFERENCES
SELECTED FILM RESOURCES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our heartfelt thanks go to each of our contributors, who not only provided us with their wonderful essays, but many of whom also offered us valuable suggestions as the volume developed. In addition, we wish to acknowledge and thank the students in our Southeast Asia classes in the 2009-2010 academic year. They were the trial audiences for many of the chapters in this volume, and their thoughtful comments and feedback were invaluable to us in the preparation of this book. We would also like to express our gratitude to Rebecca Tolen of Indiana University Press. She was the impetus for this volume and her patience and encouragement were appreciated. In addition, our home institutions (Loyola University Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside) deserve recognition for their financial and logistical support of this project. At the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Jeremy Topczewski of University Graphics, under the direction of Don Lintner, patiently drew and redrew the maps for this book.
We especially wish to thank our family members for their endless support and patience as various writing and editing deadlines removed us from the joys of everyday family life. Kathleen Adams s husband, Peter Sanchez, offered both intellectual and emotional support in addition to making much-appreciated runs for gelato as crucial deadlines approached. Her eight-year-old daughter, Danielle, offered lively distractions from the more tedious aspects of editing and Danielle s questions about whether Indonesian, Singaporean, and Vietnamese children also liked Star Wars and pizza helped us keep in mind the book s focus on everyday lives. Kathleen Adams also wishes to offer special thanks to Loyola University Chicago s Office of Research Services for its assistance in the form of a book subvention grant. That grant enabled us to hire our talented indexer, Mary Mortensen, whom we also wish to thank.
Kate Gillogly thanks The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for granting her a Faculty Access Grant in June 2009 that enabled her to connect with a wide range of Southeast Asianists and thoroughly ransack their wonderful Southeast Asia collection. She particularly thanks Michael Cullinane, Marguerite Roulet, Larry Ashmun, Mary Jo Wilson, and Peggy Choy for their support while she was in Madison. She especially thanks her partner, Charles Wilson, who has been as patient as he was during the writing of her dissertation, which is saying quite a lot, and has delighted her by becoming a good cook.
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
There are over eleven official national languages in Southeast Asia, and there are many hundreds of smaller language groups and dialects spoken in the region. In addition, many people of Southeast Asian speak more than one language. Given this diversity of languages, we have opted to use accepted conventions for transliterations. Many names of people, places, deities, and texts appear without diacritics in this volume. We have, however, accommodated various contributors preferences as best we could, which means there are some variations in the pages that follow. Some of our contributors have opted to use diacritics in their translations for greater precision. Others prefer not to employ diacritics at all, sticking to English spellings that closely approximate the term s pronunciation. For greater accuracy, we have opted to spell the names of some important Southeast Asian cities and regions as Southeast Asians are currently spelling them.
Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

INTRODUCTION

Southeast Asia and Everyday Life
Kathleen A. Gillogy and Kathleen M. Adams
Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic, complex, and fascinating areas of the world. And yet, for most Americans, it also remains one of the world s least understood regions. Often, people lump it into the category of Asia (along with China, Japan, Korea) and are unaware that Southeast Asia includes eleven very diverse countries. American news media portrayals of Southeast Asia tend to present it in sensational terms: as the setting for some of our major wars (World War II, the Vietnam War); as an incubation zone for militant Muslims; as a natural disaster-prone Ring of Fire ; or as a region that generates despotic leaders, refugees, and labor migrants. Alternatively, travel media and some tourist blogs present more seductive visions of Southeast Asia: as an exotic tropical vacation zone, surfers heaven, bargain shopping Mecca, sex tourism destination, homeland of lovely mail order brides and delectable spicy cuisine. There are some truths here, but these are partial truths. There is far more to Southeast Asia than these extreme and often problematic stereotypes belie.
This volume represents our efforts to convey some of the richness and complexity of Southeast Asia via explorations of the daily lives and experiences of diverse people living in this region. In approaching contributors for this volume, we requested essays featuring the everyday practices