Kinship and Food in South East Asia
Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so-called ‘kin’ ties. These are often based at least partly on ‘shared substance’. In this respect, a book on Southeast Asia is especially interesting in understanding kinship since the region is generally taken to include a number of distinct types of kin structure.
This book offers eleven chapters covering a range of societies in different parts of Southeast Asia. It examines ways in which food is used to think about and bring about ties between generations and within generations - including between the living and the dead - in particular through the feeding relationship. Significant parallels emerge between the societies covered: in the role of rice especially; in gender complementarity in relation to different foods; in the belief that food and drink carry fertility, ‘blessings’ or ‘life force’ from ascending to descending generations; and in the use of the feeding relationship to generate hierarchy. These parallels suggest that there may be underlying similarities in cosmology between these widely varying societies.
A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature of kinship in Southeast Asia, this volume will be useful as a textbook for courses within anthropology, including on the anthropology of food and environmental anthropology.
‘This is a book that contains a treasure of ethnographic facts and detailed information for the reader interested in social and cultural systems in Southeast Asia ... and conveys in-depth knowledge from scholars with long experience from the area’ (external reviewer).
Digital reinvention of Robert Cribb’s landmark Historical Atlas of Indonesia including about 150 new maps.
This book offers eleven chapters covering a range of societies in different parts of Southeast Asia. It examines ways in which food is used to think about and bring about ties between generations and within generations - including between the living and the dead - in particular through the feeding relationship. Significant parallels emerge between the societies covered: in the role of rice especially; in gender complementarity in relation to different foods; in the belief that food and drink carry fertility, ‘blessings’ or ‘life force’ from ascending to descending generations; and in the use of the feeding relationship to generate hierarchy. These parallels suggest that there may be underlying similarities in cosmology between these widely varying societies.
A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature of kinship in Southeast Asia, this volume will be useful as a textbook for courses within anthropology, including on the anthropology of food and environmental anthropology.
‘This is a book that contains a treasure of ethnographic facts and detailed information for the reader interested in social and cultural systems in Southeast Asia ... and conveys in-depth knowledge from scholars with long experience from the area’ (external reviewer).
Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
Digital reinvention of Robert Cribb’s landmark Historical Atlas of Indonesia including about 150 new maps.
• Fully interactive exploration of Indonesian history in maps and text using a normal web browser.
• Available both on DVD and online.
• Almost 500 maps output as JPEG images suitable for use in classroom teaching (e.g. using Powerpoint) plus high-resolution files suitable for royalty-free reproduction by scholars in their own publications.
• Much more extra material including links to historical maps of Indonesia located on external sites.
This interactive, electronic work is the follow-up to the author’s landmark Historical Atlas of Indonesia that so many have been looking for in the past decade. The Digital Atlas builds on its predecessor by adding many more maps and extra text, packaging these for teaching and individual use, and delivering them on DVD and online together with much additional material.
Based on traditional research and scholarship, and available both digitally and online, its nearly 500 specially drawn full-colour maps are augmented with a detailed companion text. The result is an astounding, pioneering work that brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of Indonesia’s immense archipelago. An essential resource for scholars and teachers of Indonesian history.
Based on traditional research and scholarship, and available both digitally and online, its nearly 500 specially drawn full-colour maps are augmented with a detailed companion text. The result is an astounding, pioneering work that brings fresh life to the fascinating and tangled history of Indonesia’s immense archipelago. An essential resource for scholars and teachers of Indonesian history.
The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Philippines
• Ground-breaking study of deforestation in the Philippines (includes solid empirical data that previously was lacking).
• A major contribution to knowledge both in the field of Philippine studies and in relation to deforestation, environmental change, political ecology and development.
• Offers a compelling insight into the long history of national, regional and local outsiders gaining access to the natural resources and lands of this last large forest frontier in the Philippines.
The book offers a detailed case study into the dynamics of forest use, degradation and loss in North-east Luzon, Philippines. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the degradation and loss of forest cover in this area between 1950 and 1990 is related to the social and political context of logging, forest migration and changes in upland agriculture. The work makes a major contribution to knowledge both in the field of Philippine studies and in relation to deforestation, environmental change, political ecology and development.
Based on 10 years of research, five of which in the Sierra Madre region, the author introduces us to the actions, livelihood options and motives of all the principal groups of actors. Using a stimulating and fascinating balance between systematic survey data and the qualitative, almost anecdotal, reporting of conversations with these key actors, this book offers a compelling insight into the long history of national, regional and local outsiders gaining access to the natural resources and lands of this last large forest frontier in the Philippines.
The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation. Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also analyses important cultural, historical, political, religious, and legal forces shaping the popular image of the monarchy and, in particular, of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
In this manner, the book offers valuable insights into the relationships between monarchy, religion and democracy in Thailand – topics that, after the September 2006 coup d’état, gained renewed national and international interest. By addressing such contentious issues as Thai-style democracy, lése majesté legislation, religious symbolism and politics, monarchical traditions, and the royal sufficiency economy, this volume will be of interest to a broad spectrum of academics, journalists and other interested readers outside academia.
• A major contribution to knowledge both in the field of Philippine studies and in relation to deforestation, environmental change, political ecology and development.
• Offers a compelling insight into the long history of national, regional and local outsiders gaining access to the natural resources and lands of this last large forest frontier in the Philippines.
The book offers a detailed case study into the dynamics of forest use, degradation and loss in North-east Luzon, Philippines. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the degradation and loss of forest cover in this area between 1950 and 1990 is related to the social and political context of logging, forest migration and changes in upland agriculture. The work makes a major contribution to knowledge both in the field of Philippine studies and in relation to deforestation, environmental change, political ecology and development.
Based on 10 years of research, five of which in the Sierra Madre region, the author introduces us to the actions, livelihood options and motives of all the principal groups of actors. Using a stimulating and fascinating balance between systematic survey data and the qualitative, almost anecdotal, reporting of conversations with these key actors, this book offers a compelling insight into the long history of national, regional and local outsiders gaining access to the natural resources and lands of this last large forest frontier in the Philippines.
Latest Catalogue
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Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Border Zone
by Noburo Ishikawa
Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society
edited by Joakim Őjendal and Mona Lilja
A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
by Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell
by Robert Cribb
Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men
edited by Helle Rydstrøm
edited by Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael Parnwell
An International and Interdisciplinary Approach
by Christopher E. Goscha
The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
edited by Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud
edited by Vibeke Børdahl and Margaret B. Wan
edited by Lucie Olivová & Vibeke Børdahl
Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India
by Deborah Sutton
The Long Shadow of Taiwan's One-Party Legacy
by Mikael Mattlin
Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
by Sylvia Frisk
Community and State in Southeast Asia
edited by Andrew Walker
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Saying the Unsayable
- A unique, multidisciplinary discussion of the cultural, historical, political, religious and legal forces that formed the Thai monarchy.
- Essential reading for anyone interested in Thai politics and culture.
- Of interest to a broad readership, also outside academia.
The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation. Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also analyses important cultural, historical, political, religious, and legal forces shaping the popular image of the monarchy and, in particular, of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
In this manner, the book offers valuable insights into the relationships between monarchy, religion and democracy in Thailand – topics that, after the September 2006 coup d’état, gained renewed national and international interest. By addressing such contentious issues as Thai-style democracy, lése majesté legislation, religious symbolism and politics, monarchical traditions, and the royal sufficiency economy, this volume will be of interest to a broad spectrum of academics, journalists and other interested readers outside academia.
The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
Key points
*Examines the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature
*Offers enquiries into new material and gives astonishing responses to old controversies
*Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on Chinese popular entertainment literature from the Ming dynasty to the present
*Makes an excellent contribution to the literature in its field.
Although the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature is an issue that concerns practically everybody who reads or teaches Chinese literature, surprisingly it has never been properly treated in a scholarly forum before. For that reason alone, this volume is especially important and deserves serious consideration from scholars and students in the field.
Through subjects ranging from Ming vernacular fiction to popular prints and contemporary storytelling and folk ballads, this volume examines the interplay of oral and written traditions in China from interdisciplinary perspectives. Literary criticism, linguistic analysis, fieldwork, folklore studies, and the exploration of visual sources all bring out vital perspectives on central questions. Exploring the traditions of professional storytelling and popular entertainment literature in China, they offer enquiries into new material and give astonishing responses to old controversies. In going beyond the simple binary oral versus written, the essays in this volume ask not whether a text bears a relationship to the oral tradition but how and to what extent.
Written by contributors well versed in their subject, these essays are highly scholarly and analytical treatments of the issues. Through their more detailed knowledge about Chinese verbal art in performance, or first-hand understanding of living traditions, the authors provide fresh insights to the understanding of how the oral and the written interact. Overall, this well-edited and well-written volume makes an excellent contribution to the literature in its field.
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