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Ethnicity, borders, and the grassroots interface with the state : studies on Southeast Asia in honor of Charles F. Keyes / edited by John A. Marston.
Penn Museum Library GN635.S58 E85 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Southeast Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Southeast Asia.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- v, 285 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chiang Mai, thailand : Silkworm, 2014.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together exciting new research by anthropologists working on mainland Southeast Asia, in honor of anthropologist Charles F. Keyes. It addresses concepts central to Keyes's own work-ethnicity, religion, and modernity-as they can be applied to the countries of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Each chapter is a case study in the relationship of power between institutions of state and society. The collection is divided into four sections. "The State and Public Ceremony" includes chapters on a ceremony of national heritage as celebrated in Vietnam and the United States, Shan novice initiation in Thailand, and the restoration of the Cambodian monkhood. "The Grassroots Negotiation of Modernity" contains chapters about the concept of "sufficiency" in Thai farm production, the ways modernity is conceived among the Lahu in Thailand, and the complexities of the Thai system of identity cards, "Crossing Borders of State and Nation" focuses on the stateless Lao population in northeastern Thailand, Vietnamese migrants to Laos, and Western (farang) men married to northeastern Thai women. The final section contains a biography of Charles Keyes, an interview with him, and a selected bibliography of his work. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The State and Public Ceremony
- 1 The Tenth Day of March and Contingent Lineages of Vietnamese Statehood / Allison Truitt Truitt, Allison 23
- 2 Rock Your Religion: Shan Buddhist Ritual and Stage-Show Revelry in a Contested Zone at the Thai-Burma Border / Jane M. Ferguson Ferguson, Jane M. 45
- 3 Reestablishing the Cambodian Monkhood / John A. Marston Marston, John A. 65
- The Grassroots Negotiation of Modernity
- 4 Alterity to Modernity: Village-Based Self-Sufficient Farm Production in Northeastern Thailand / Ratana Tosakul Tosakul, Ratana 103
- 5 Christianity, Modernity, and Creativity: The Construction of a Lahu Baptist Identity / Judith M. S. Pine Pine, Judith M. S. 125
- 6 Contested Citizenship: Cards, Colors, and the Culture of Identification / Pinkaew Laungaramsri Laungaramsri, Pinkaew 143
- Crossing Borders of State and Nation
- 7 Narrating Legitimacy, Narrating Agencies: Citizenship Negotiations among Internationally Displaced Laotians in Northeastern Thailand / Suchada Thaweesit Thaweesit, Suchada 165
- 8 Temporary Lives, Eternal Dreams: Experiences of Viet Labor Migrants in Savannakhet, Laos / Duong Bich Hanh Hanh, Duong Bich 191
- 9 Cross-Border Hypergamy and Gendered Agency: Farang Husbands and Isan Wives on the Global Cultural Stage / Suriya Smutkupt Smutkupt, Suriya, Pattana Kitiarsa Kitiarsa, Pattana 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 6162150720
- 9786162150722
- OCLC:
- 874931414
- Publisher Number:
- 99958859316
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