TY - BOOK ID - 135457058 TI - Figures of Southeast Asian modernity AU - Barker, Joshua AU - Harms, Erik AU - Lindquist, Johan PY - 2014 SN - 0824836464 082483741X 9780824836467 9780824837419 PB - Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press DB - UniCat KW - Southeast Asia KW - Southeast Asia KW - Southeast Asia KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135457058 AB - "Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. An introduction outlines important social transformations in Southeast Asia and key theoretical and methodological innovations that result from ethnographic attention to the study of key figures. Each section begins with an introduction by a country editor followed by short essays offering vivid and intimate portraits set against the background of contemporary Southeast Asia. The result is a volume that combines scholarly rigor with a meaningful, up-to-date portrayal of a region of the world undergoing rapid change. A reference bibliography offers suggestions for further reading."--Publisher's description. ER -