Figures Of Southeast Asian Modernity

Author : Joshua Barker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837797
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity written by Joshua Barker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of figures that populate the social and cultural imaginaries of contemporary Southeast Asia—some familiar only in specific places, others recognizable across the region and even globally. It puts forward a series of ethnographic portraits of figures that represent and give voice to something larger than themselves, offering a view into social life that is at once highly particular and general. They include the Muslim Television Preacher in Indonesia, Miss Beer Lao, the Rural DJ in Thailand, the Korean Soap Opera Junkie in Burma, the Filipino Seaman, and the Photo Retoucher in Vietnam. Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. An introduction outlines important social transformations in Southeast Asia and key theoretical and methodological innovations that result from ethnographic attention to the study of key figures. Each section begins with an introduction by a country editor followed by short essays offering vivid and intimate portraits set against the background of contemporary Southeast Asia. The result is a volume that combines scholarly rigor with a meaningful, up-to-date portrayal of a region of the world undergoing rapid change. A reference bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. Figures of Southeast Asia Modernity is an ideal teaching tool for introductory classes to Southeast Asia studies, anthropology, and geography.

Author : Terence Chong
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812303162
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernization Trends in Southeast Asia written by Terence Chong and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle class, and mass consumption in Southeast Asia. This book concludes by profiling the characteristics of Southeast Asian modernity.

Author : Yao Souchou
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814517348
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Glass written by Yao Souchou and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on critical theory and post-modernism, this book argues for a new strategy for writing about the social and cultural experiences of living in modern Southeast Asian states. Contributors -- many of whom work in universities in the region -- question the processes of cultural transformation under conditions of globalization and rapid economic and political change. By paying attention to the specificity of what is taking place in the particular state, the book questions the conventional narratives of developmentalism and state-sponsored national peace as they are understood in Southeast Asia, and shows how such understanding can be made and unmade.

Author : Antonio L. Rappa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402045103
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia written by Antonio L. Rappa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original piece of research considers the ways in which modernity challenges and informs the language policies of various Southeast Asians nations. It combines theoretical arguments from policy studies, language policy and political theory, with quantitative figures where necessary. Succinctly and clearly written, this volume fills the research gap on the topic while bringing up to date the various political, social, and policy developments.

Author : T. K. Sabapathy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Beyond written by T. K. Sabapathy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern art tradition in Southeast Asia, and a valuable resource for those intent on delving deeper into the character of art in the region.

Author : Norman G. Owen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828417
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia written by Norman G. Owen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the United States and several European powers had come to control almost the entire region - only to depart dramatically in the decades following World War II. perspective on this complex region. Although it does not neglect nation-building (the central theme of its popular and long-lived predecessor, In Search of Southeast Asia), the present work focuses on economic and social history, gender, and ecology. It describes the long-term impact of global forces on the region and traces the spread and interplay of capitalism, nationalism, and socialism. It acknowledges that modernization has produced substantial gains in such areas as life expectancy and education but has also spread dislocation and misery. Organizationally, the book shifts between thematic chapters that describe social, economic, and cultural change, and country chapters emphasizing developments within specific areas. will establish a new standard for the history of this dynamic and radically transformed region of the world.

Author : Donald G Mccloud
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asia written by Donald G Mccloud and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking contemporary Southeast Asia with its past, this text analyzes the ways neotraditional values have begun to shape social and political attitudes, practices, and structures. Donald McCloud shows how this neotraditional resurgence is being used to define an independent path to modernity markedly at odds with the dominant Western paradigm of development. Focusing on Southeast Asia's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the global environment, this volume traces the evolution of a unique and dynamic region.

Author : Anthony Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349257605
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies written by Anthony Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-09-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century of the exuberantly diverse independence of Asia's smaller states, before the colonial embrace of 1860-1900, has been dismissed as a doomed period of stagnation and reaction by colonial, nationalist and Marxist historians alike. But the newest writing, represented here by 17 leading specialists on the different states of Southeast Asia and Choson Korea, has discovered in these states an astonishing laboratory of autonomous attempts to grapple with the pressures of modernity.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004372709
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Southeast Asians conceived of ‘being modern’ between the 1920s and 1970s. It investigates continuities and changes between colonial rule and independence, and in everyday spheres of life like sex, religion, art, film, literature, and urban space.

Author : C. J. Wan-ling Wee
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693923
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian Modern written by C. J. Wan-ling Wee and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: