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This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when constructing an analytical framework. The author contends that religious phenomena are inextricably intertwined with issues of power, politics, and economics among the upland groups (such as the Kachin) of Southeast Asia.

Ethnology --- Southeast Asia --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Religion.

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"Why is it that warfare in Southeast Asian history is depicted so differently in various historical sources and representations? Why have scholars looking at different countries found so many exceptions to regional overviews of warfare? The present volume seeks to present a new approach to the study of warfare in the region by abandoning the generalizations made in the conventional literature. The contributors offer a range of new studies of warfare in local areas within the region, looking at warfare on its own, local terms rather than for what it says about warfare in the region as a whole. This approach for the first time submits Southeast Asia to comparative analysis in a way that avoids artificial and misleading regional attributes. The varied case studies, researched and written by a number of experts of local warfare within the region include naval warfare eighteenth century Vietnam, civil war in South Sulawesi during the Pénéki War, the art and texts of war in Burmese warfare, modes of warfare in precolonial Bali, war captive taking in Thailand, and kinship, religion, and war in late eighteenth century Maguindanao, and preparations for war in the Pacific rimlands. The volume makes an important contribution to the new literature emerging on the culture of indigenous warfare in North and South America, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands, by offering a new and robust Southeast Asian entry on the one hand while adding to a new approach to the growing literature on early modern Southeast Asia warfare."--Publisher's web site.

Southeast Asia --- Politics and government. --- History, Military. --- History. --- Civilization. --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia

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L'idée de ce travail a germé au printemps 2009, au hasard d'une librairie de Kuala Lumpur. Au rayon philosophie politique, la présence improbable des œuvres complètes d'Ayn Rand, mieux représentée que tous les auteurs classiques, avait aiguisé ma curiosité à l'égard des lecteurs de cette philosophe et romancière russo-américaine. À l'origine d'un courant philosophique qu'elle nomme « objectivisme », Ayn Rand défend une conception exaltée de l'individu libéré de toute contrainte sociale. Bien que sa philosophie soit contestée et loin d'être la seule défense contemporaine des libertés individuelles, elle reste une référence pour nombre d'individualistes radicaux à travers le monde. Son succès, confirmé par la présence des romans Atlas Shrugged et The Fountainhead sur l'étagère des meilleures ventes, indiquait la présence de lecteurs attirés par des convictions individualistes et universalistes dans une région dont l'approche contemporaine en théorie politique est dominée par les théoriciens communautariens qui estiment que les idéologies nées en Occident, du libéralisme au marxisme, ne sont pas exportables.

Libertarianism --- History --- Southeast Asia --- Politics and government --- Anarchism --- Individualism --- Liberty --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- libertarianism --- liberalism --- Civil Society --- militancy --- rights --- freedoms --- liberalisme

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This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism.

Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Southeast Asia. --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia

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In this multi-disciplinary and multi-sited volume, the authors challenge reductionist and oversimplifying approaches to understanding China's engagement with Southeast Asia. Productively viewing these interactions through a "resource lens", the editor has transcended disciplinary and area studies divides in order to assemble a dynamic and diverse group of scholars with extensive experience across Southeast Asia and in China, all while bringing together perspectives from resource economics, policy analysis, international relations, human geography, political ecology, history, sociology and anthropology. The result is an important collection that not only offers empirically detailed studies of Chinese energy and resource investments in Southeast Asia, but which attends to the complex and often ambivalent ways in which such investments have become both a source of anxiety and aspiration for different stakeholders in the region.

Investments, Chinese --- Power resources --- Energy industries --- Industries --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Chinese investments --- Southeast Asia --- China --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Foreign economic relations --- Investments, Foreign