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...

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Main Author: Chua, Liana
Other Authors: Cook, Joanna, Long, Nicholas J., Wilson, Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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