عنوان

The peoples of Southeast Asia today :

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(cloth : alk. paper)

(pbk. : alk. paper)

(electronic)

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The peoples of Southeast Asia today :

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ethnography, ethnology, and change in a complex region /

Robert L. Winzeler

Lanham, Md. :

AltaMira Press,

c2011

xv, 319 p. :

ill., maps ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index

1. Introduction : Mainland and insular Southeast Asia and other contrasts ; Resources for the study of Southeast Asian peoples ; Ethnography and ethnology -- 2. Prehistory and languages : The Negrito issue ; Transition to farming and the spread of languages ; Cultivation and the origin and dispersal of language groups ; Southeast Asia at the beginning of the common era -- 3. Early states, civilization, and colonialism : Indic civilization in Southeast Asia ; Early states ; Colonialism ; The nature of colonialism ; Characteristics of colonial rule ; The end of colonial rule -- 4. Ethnic complexity in modern Southeast Asia : Plural society ; Plural society in Malaysia ; Indians ; Chinese -- 5. Hunter-gatherers, real and imagined : An overview ; Questions and controversies about Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers ; Hunter-gatherers as objects of interest, controversy, and concern ; Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers today -- 6. Swidden farmers : Rice ; Tribal farmers -- 7. Peasant farmers and their transformations : Development of rice cultivation in a Thai village ; Changes in peasant farming across Southeast Asia ; Agrarian developments in nonsocialist and socialist countries -- 8. Indigenous religion : Animism ; Malevolent spirits and bad death ; Two-stage mortuary practices ; Spirit possession, spirit mediums, and shamanism ; Sorcery and witchcraft -- 9. Religion, society, and the state : World religions and their characteristics in southeast Asia ; Anthropological study of world religions ; Disputes and disagreements about Islam and Buddhism; Religion and the state -- 10. Religious conversion on the ethnic margins : The extent of conversion ; Colonialism and other interpretations of conversion ; Conversion, ethnicity, and development ; Consequences of conversion ; Conversion and marginalization -- 11. Tourism and local peoples : The impact of tourism on local peoples ; Bali ; Longhouse tourism in Sarawak, Malaysia ; Ethnic tourism in northern mainland Southeast Asia -- 12. Development for better or worse : Development and making people visible ; Development and classification ; Development and poverty ; Resettlement ; Land enclosures and the assault on swidden cultivation ; Development and houses ; Development and mobility

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Ethnology-- Southeast Asia

Human geography-- Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, Economic conditions

Southeast Asia, Social conditions

Southeast Asia, Social life and customs

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