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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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Asian Anthropologies ; v. 4 |
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Asian anthropologies.
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"Once wre Burmese Shans" : reinventing ethnic identity in Nortwestern Thailand / Niti Pawakapan -- Would-be centers : the tecture of historical discourse in Makassar / William Cummings -- Political periphery, cosmological center : the reproduction of Rmeet sociocosmic order and the Laos-Thailand border / Guido Sprenger -- Premodern flows in postmodern China : globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais / Sara Davis -- Borders and multiple realities : the Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia / Cynthia Chou -- In the margin of a borderland : the Florenese community between Nunukan and Tawau / Riwanto Tirtosudarmo -- Deconstructing citizenship from the border : dual ethnic minoritues and local reworking of citizenship at the Thailand-Malaysian frontier / Alexander Horstmann -- Sex and sacred : sojourners and visitors in the making of the Southern Thai borderland / Marc Askew -- Narrating the border : perspectives from the Kelabit highlands of Borneo / Matthew H. Amster |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Nomads -- Southeast Asia
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Ethnicity -- Southeast Asia
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Minorities -- Southeast Asia
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Demographic anthropology -- Southeast Asia
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Transnationalism.
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Ethnic barriers -- Southeast Asia
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Borderlands -- Southeast Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Borderlands
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Demographic anthropology
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic barriers
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Ethnic relations
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Ethnicity
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Minorities
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Nomads
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Transnationalism
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations
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Southeast Asia -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horstmann, Alexander
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Wadley, Reed L
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| ISBN |
9780857454393 |
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0857454390 |
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