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ASEAN 50 : regional security cooperation through selected documents
\"The book ASEAN 50: A Security Community curates key official documents from its foundation in 1967 to 2016. With an emphasis on ASEAN as a political-security community, this book puts together selected documents that trace the development of the Association through periods of its formation, the Cold War in Asia, the post-Cold War security environment, its expansion and adaption to the shifting geopolitical dynamics. Through the documents and their accompanying commentaries, 50 Years of ASEAN: A Security Community aims to provide an important resource for researchers of ASEAN and Southeast Asia\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Creolization and diaspora in the Portuguese Indies : the social world of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720
This book examines the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period in which Portuguese power in the region declined. The analysis turns on the creolization and diaspora that affected this community, as well as problems with international trade, the Christian conversion process, and European rivalries.
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Voices of Southeast Asia : essential readings from antiquity to the present
\"A primary source reader featuring 24 selections from a variety of genres and designed as a resource for teaching Southeast Asian civilization courses, whether their emphasis be historical, literary, philosophical, or broadly cultural, and as a means of integrating Southeast Asian civilization into broader world history coverage ... Selections range from the Cambodian medieval version of the Ramayana to the 16th century Javanese tales to modern Thai short stories. The region is represented both temporally and geographically with selections from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, and Burma. These readings represent a fair selection of Southeast Asia's ancient and modern classics of thought and expression. This volume constitutes a unique combination of poetry, novels, short stories, drama, and political and philosophical treatises. Although not every selection is a complete work, the material presented is both substantial and representative\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Commodities move easily, as can people… but ideas and cultural practices are easier to transplant than translate
Nile Green is a historian of the multiple globalisations of Islam and Muslims. After beginning his career as a historian of India and Pakistan, he has traced Muslim networks that connect Afghanistan, Iran, the Indian Ocean, Africa, Japan, Europe, and America. He has published ten books on the subject, including the award-winning volumes Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale University Press, 2022). He serves as Professor & Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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A Glimpse into the Natural History of Leiolepis rubritaeniata Mertens, 1961 (Squamata: Leiolepididae)
During the months of April through July 2020 we studied aspects of the natural history of Leiolepis rubritaeniata, a species of butterfly lizard that occurs on the Khorat Plateau in Thailand and adjacent regions of Laos and Cambodia as well as in south-central Vietnam. We present data on population size and structure, as well as location, size, compass orientation, and structure of the lizards burrows. Also, we present climatic data (ambient air temperature and precipitation) at the study site for the duration of our field work as well as temperature data for the complete year 2021. Furthermore, we provide data on egg laying, incubation conditions and characteristics of the hatchlings. Finally, we present an easy to use and reliable non-invasive method for the long-term recognition of individual butterfly lizards based on their unique dorsal patterning. Butterfly lizards are utilized as a food source for the local human population. So far, there are no farming projects in Thailand involving this species and all individuals are collected from the wild populations. No data are available on the population dynamics of L. rubritaeniata but it can be assumed that habitat destruction due to land use change as well as its utilization for human consumption have negative effects on the long-term survival of the local populations of this lizard species. The baseline data presented here are essential for any meaningful conservation strategy for these lizards.
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Scripting Of A National History, The
Rather than presenting another narrative of Singapore history, The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts studies the constructed nature of the history endorsed by the state, which blurs the distinction between what happened in the past,
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Modernity and cultural citizenship in the Netherlands Indies: An illustrated hypothesis
Conventional historiography presumes a linear development from urbanisation, the rise of indigenous middle classes and the spread of modernity towards nationalism as the logical outcome of this process. This article aims to disconnect modernity from nationalism by focusing on the role of cultural citizens in the late colonial period for whom modernity was a desirable lifestyle. The extent to which their desires and the interests of the colonial regime coincided is illustrated by a variety of advertisements and school posters, which invited members of the indigenous urban middle class to become cultural citizens of the colony.
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The anthropology of the state and the state of anthropology in Brunei
This article provides a detailed account of the process of invention of a nationalist tradition for Brunei, the most tradition-conscious nation in Southeast Asia. It shows how Brunei's nationalist tradition emerged at the interface of colonial records, indigenous oral and written sources, ethnographic fieldwork, and anthropological theories. For this purpose the article traces the history of anthropological research in northern Borneo from its colonial beginnings to its postcolonial role in nation-building and shows how anthropology and anthropologists have — sometimes unknowingly, sometimes deliberately — played an active role in the shaping of Negara Brunei Darussalam.
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Homoeroticism in Imperial China
Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex desire in Chinese history.
Negotiating what can be a challenging area for both specialists and non-specialists alike, this sourcebook provides:
accurate translations of key original extracts from classical Chinese
concise explanations of the context and significance of each entry
translations which preserve the aesthetic quality of the original sources.
An authoritative and well organised guide and introduction to the original Chinese sources, this sourcebook covers histories and philosophers, poetry, drama (including two complete plays), fiction (including four complete short stories and full chapters from longer novels) and miscellanies. Each of these sections are organised chronologically, and as well as the general introduction, short introductions are provided for each genre and source.
Revealing what is a remarkably sophisticated and complex literary tradition, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an essential sourcebook for students and scholars of Imperial Chinese history and culture and sexuality studies.
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Islamic Reform, the Family, and Knowledge Networks Linking Mecca to Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century
Through a study of over 1,300 previously unanalyzed Malay Islamic manuscripts, this article examines the role of the Patani community in the construction of transoceanic knowledge networks between Mecca and Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century. Set against the backdrop of the destruction of prevailing symbols of authority, as well as the displacement and scattering of the community after 1200/1786, the present study investigates the manner by which scholars established new cultural unities for the community and addressed social concerns by translating and spreading Islamic writings, teachings, and schools. With its spiritual leadership centered now in Mecca, influential members of the community began producing works that were contingent upon political circumstances, but also directed at the problems facing the refugee community. Of foremost importance were the place and definition of the family, and related issues such as inheritance, divorce, and visible social actions, including ritual purity, fasting, almsgiving, and criminal punishments.
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