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…mehr
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.
Reed L. Wadley (1962-2008) was Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, USA. His research included borderlands, warfare, colonialism, natural resource management and historical ecology, involving Iban communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Among his publications were Punitive expeditions and divine revenge: Oral and colonial histories of rebellion and pacification in western Borneo, 1886-1902, Ethnohistory (2004).
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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
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
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