Ethnic and religious identities and integration in Southeast Asia / edited by Ooi Keat Gin and Volker Grabowsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ooi, Keat Gin, 1959- editor.

Grabowsky, Volker, editor.

European Union, associated with work.

École française d'Extrême-Orient, associated with work.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

EFEO-Silkworm books series

SEATIDE-Silkworm books series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Southeast Asia.

Ethnology.

Cultural pluralism.

Southeast Asia.

Identification (Religion).

Cultural pluralism--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 506 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 2017.

Summary:

This stimulating volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Through the lens of identity, the authors explore and appraise the level of integration within the political borders of Southeast Asian nation-states and within the region as a whole. Case studies include the Bru population in Laos-Vietnam, hill tribe populations without citizenship in northern Thailand, the Lua also in northern Thailand, the Pakistani community in Penang, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Karen Leke religious movement in Thailand/Myanmar, political Islam in Indonesia, Sufi Muslims in Thailand, pluralism in Penang, the Preah Vihear dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, and hero cult worship in northern Thailand. Historians and social anthropologists variously tackle these issues of identity and integration within the kaleidoscope of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures that make up Southeast Asia. The result is a rich, multifaceted volume that is of great benefit to students and specialists in unraveling the complexities of national and transnational dynamics in the region.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Ethnicity and Identities: 1. Politics of cross-border living in southern Laos-central Vietnam / Vatthana Pholsena ; 2. Khon Rai Sanchat: resident aliens and the paradox of national integration in Thailand / Mukdawan Sakboon, Prasit Leepreecha, and Panadda Boonyasaranai ; 3. Resettled Lua communities in northern Thailand: between ethnic disintegration and national integration / Amalia Rossi ; 4. Language, culture, and identity: a case study of diasporic ethnic Pakistanis in multilingual Penang / Shakila Abdul Manan

Part 2. Religion and Identities: 5. Transmutations of the Rohingya movement in the post-2012 Rakhine state crisis / Jacques Leider ; 6. The Karen Leke religious movement in Thailand-Myanmar borderland: deterritorialization and diversification / Kwanchewan Buadaeng ; 7. The refreshing paradoxes of Indonesian political Islam: considerations on the Islamist exception / Rémy Madinier ; 8. Thailand's Muslim kaleidoscope from the central plains to the far south: fresh perspectives from the Sufi margins / Christopher M. Joll

Part 3. Integration and Identities: 9. Plural and separate: Penang's colonial experience, 1786-1941 / Ooi Keat Gin ; 10. Heritage and nationalism in the Preah Vihear dispute / Volker Grabowsky ; 11. Regional identities and national integration: hero cults in Lan Na / Pantipa Chuenchat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9786162151262

6162151263

OCLC:

989620938

Publisher Number:

99974680624