Centering the Margin
Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-84545-591-0 (ISBN)
Description
In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders as part of their everyday life. They show that people are not only constrained by borders; the crossing of borders also opens up new options of agency. Making active use of these, border-crossing actors construct their own live projects on the border in multiple ways against the original intention of the nation-state. Based on their intimate knowledge of the interaction of communities, anthropologists from Europe, the USA, Japan and Southeast Asia provide a vivid picture of the effects of state policies at the borders on these communities.
Reviews / Votes
"...an excellent collection that should be read by all scholars of Southeast Asia, and that should provoke more thought and research on the people whose lives and practicescontinue to connect Southeast Asian nation-states." ? JRAI"The literature on borders and borderlands, the state, globalization and ethnic minorities, is now huge, but the editors of this book do a good job of summarizing most of it in their introduction...This book... will swiftly become a key reading in university courses dealing with borderlands and Southeast Asia." ? Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
"...each of the studies is well worth making available and the set of them offers a useful addition to the literature on borders and migration." ? Anthropos
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84545-591-0 (9781845455910)
DOI
10.3167/9781845450199
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Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands
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Alexander Horstmann teaches Social Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Muenster and is a Fellow of the Study Group Islamic Culture - Modern Society at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen. Among his major publications include Class Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand, Transaction, 2002.
Content
Preface
Figures and Tables
Introduction: Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia
Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley
CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 1. "Once were Burmese Shans": Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand
Niti Pawakapan
Chapter 2. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar
William Cummings
Chapter 3. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos-Thailand Border
Guido Sprenger
CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 4. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais
Sara Davis
Chapter 5. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
Cynthia Chou
Chapter 6. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 7. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand-Malaysian Frontier
Alexander Horstmann
Chapter 8. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland
Marc Askew
Chapter 9. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo
Matthew H. Amster
Notes on Contributors
Index
Figures and Tables
Introduction: Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia
Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley
CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 1. "Once were Burmese Shans": Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand
Niti Pawakapan
Chapter 2. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar
William Cummings
Chapter 3. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos-Thailand Border
Guido Sprenger
CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 4. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais
Sara Davis
Chapter 5. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
Cynthia Chou
Chapter 6. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
Chapter 7. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand-Malaysian Frontier
Alexander Horstmann
Chapter 8. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland
Marc Askew
Chapter 9. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo
Matthew H. Amster
Notes on Contributors
Index