IS BN 978-983-56-0028-9
WL Order Code 8 082
US$42.00
Kuala Lumpur 1988, 138 pp., 80 pp. illus.,
14 pp. in col., 195 x 250 mm
Dumarçay, Jacques & Michael Smithies Cultural Sites of Malaysia, Singapore,
and Indonesia
Southeast Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are
visited and appreciated by an increasing number of overseas travelers.
This book covers the main archaeological and architectural sites found in Malaysia, Singapore,
and Indonesia.
Each is described and its salient features noted and placed
in the general context of the country and the region.
Plates and original figures,
including axonometric drawings produced specially for the book, enhance the
reader’s appreciation of the extremely rich and varied cultural past of these sites.
IS BN 978-974-480-092-3
WL Order Code 22 483
US$23.00
Bangkok 2006, 158 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Durrer, Hans; Ways of Perception:
On Visual and Intercultural Communication
This book comprises three essays that will give you a good understanding of
intercultural communication, of linguistic relativity, and of documentary photography.
These texts will help you to communicate effectively across cultures by
making you aware of the various verbal and non-verbal forms in which communication
takes place, by helping you to conceive of culture as man-made, constantly
changing and not necessarily determined by geography but by “common
ground”,and by demonstrating that the key for bridging cultural differences lies
not so much in “expertise” in foreign cultures but in self-knowledge.
This work will also raise your language-awareness for it deals with questions
such as: Does the language we speak determine how we see the world?
Can we, by working on our language, influence our world-view? Do languages
differ more in how they are used than in what they could potentially express?
Moreover, this text will enhance your ability to understand pictures by
explaining the phenomenon of seeing through a lens, by elaborating on the
complexity of reading photographs, and by demonstrating that a picture does
not always tell more than a thousand words, yet that more often we need a
thousand words to understand a picture.
IS BN 978-0-19- 588560-6
WL Order Code 8 101
US$33.00
Kuala Lumpur 1991, 299 pp., illus., 190 x
250 mm, pbk.
Edwards, Norman; The Singapore House and Residential Life 1819–1939
Edwards addresses the subject of the Singapore detached house in terms of its
evolution from the time of first settlement to the Second World War.
The term
‘detached house’ refers to both one- and two-story separate houses, each on its
own piece of ground.
It includes the palatial residences of the British colonia
administrators and the wealthy Chinese towkay at one extreme, and the more
modest bungalow of the less privileged members of the middle-class society at
the other.
IS BN 978-974-8495-81-1
WL Order Code 21 628
US$33.00
Bangkok 1993, repr. from 1972; 250 pp.,
150 x 210 mm, pbk.
FitzGerald, C. P.; The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People
Since the beginning of reliable historical evidence, Chinese influence, culture,
and power have always moved southward.
In the first part of this book, FitzGerald
details how Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma had all, to
varying degrees, come under the influence of and acknowledged the power of
China. Malaya, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, which never actually owed allegiance
to China, nonetheless also experienced China’s influence and power.
China’s political influence in Southeast Asia declined when southward territorial
expansion ended with the rise of the Manchu Dynasty in 1664. Later,
a massive migration of individual Chinese resulted in the large minorities of
Chinese that can still be found in many Southeast Asian countries today.
In the second part of his book, the author examines the cultural, economic, and
political effects of this migration on the countries concerned and their implications
for the future.
Many of FitzGerald’s comments are prescient and pertinent
today, and the book presents vital historical facts which need to be taken into
account in any assessment of the probable future of the area. The secret Chinese
expansion into Burma and the Andaman Sea confirms the projection the author
made 30 years ago.
IS BN 978-974-8496-72-6
WL Order Code 21 161
US$35.00
Bangkok 1997, rev. ed.; 366 pp., 48 pp. color
illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Heinze, Ruth-Inge; Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia
Today
This study looks at the role of faith in Southeast Asian healing rituals and investigates
the needs which created the underlying belief systems, Shamans, mediums,
and healers monitoring trances and mediating between different states
of consciousness for the purpose of healing.
In 21 case studies, the reader will
observe a Meo shaman riding into the spirit world, the God Rama descending
into the body of an Indian worker, and a Malay bomoh balancing the “wind”
of a client during a main puteri. A Thai-Malay bomoh is transformed into a
tiger and Singapore-Malays behave like horses.
The book documents how Thai,
Hindu, Malay, as well as Chinese mediums, with the help of Hindu, Taoist and
Buddhist deities, deified heroes, and nature spirits cure, exorcize, and advise
their clients.
The phenomena of automatic writing and glossolalia are also discussed.
The book addresses, e.g., the following questions: Is the demand for
spiritual guidance and help increasing or declining? Is the syncretism we find
in modern belief systems strictly a theoretical issue which is of no importance
to the participants in a ritual? And is shamanism an “elementary form of the
religious life?” The book provides, furthermore, evidence for the needs which
lead to the emergence of need-fulfillers wherever and whenever specific physiological,
psychological, mental, social, and spiritual needs arise.
Thus, when
modern physicians, psychiatrists, and sometimes priests, do not seem to have
an answer, folk practitioners continue to fulfill basic human needs in modern
multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies.
IS BN 978-974-7534-64-1
Order Code 22 224
US$42.00
Bangkok 2001, First English translation of
1929; 276 pp., 240 pp. illus., 2l0 x 290 mm,
pbk.
Hürlimann, Martin; Photographic Impressions of Burma, Siam, Cambodia,
Yunnan, Champa, and Vietnam :
This book of photographs of the 1920
in Indochina presents 240 magnificent
pictures of architecture, landscapes, and people in their daily activities.
For
each country there is a brief introduction in English.
The photographs also
include monuments of Champa, the disappeared kingdom on the coast of Vietnam.
Various ethnic minorities of Southeast Asia are shown in their traditional
costumes.
IS BN 978-974-8434-52-0
Order Code 22 030
US$30.00
Bangkok 1998, 398 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Iorns Magallanes, Catherine J. & Malcolm Holick (Eds.); Land Conflicts in
Southeast Asia
Indigenous Peoples : Environment and International Law
This book deals with the competing pressures being placed on land and
resources worldwide as the world’s population grows.
Within states, these pressures
are increasingly leading to conflicts over land and associated resources
and these conflicts are increasingly becoming internationalized.
This situation
is nowhere better illustrated than in Southeast Asia.
This book brings together a
wide range of both academic and practical expertise.
It examines and analyzes a
range of conflicts over land and resources in Southeast Asia and makes recommendations
for their resolution.
The case studies discuss situations in Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.
They address development due to
industrialization, mining, logging and tourism.
The book then focuses on the
international legal and political framework which applies to the various conflicts
described. Finally, the editors make helpful suggestions for the prevention
and resolution of such conflicts at both the national and international level.
IS BN 978-974-480-076-3
Order Code 22 441
US$22.00
Bangkok 2006, repr. from 1906; 448 pp., 7
pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Furness Jayne, Caroline : String Figures : A Study of Cat’s‑Cradle in many
Lands
This tome is a reprint of an exhaustive study on a cultural heritage that can
be found in many different cultures across Asia. America and Europe.
There
seem to be two main groups. In the European and Asiatic type two strings pass
around the back of each hand and the crossing loops are taken up by the middle
finger.
In the Oceanic and American type there are no strings at the back of
the hand and the crossing loops are taken up by the index fingers.
The first
type requires two players while one person suffices for the usual figures of the
second type.
Examples of the Asiatic type can be found in Korea, Japan, East Indian
Archipelago, Philippines and other places.
In Europe this type is found in
Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, England.
The
Oceanic type was found in Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Polynesia, and
various parts of America, from Alaska to all parts of native American Indian
societies.
Two facts seem significant: 1. the widely spread accompaniment of words
or chants and 2. the frequent representation of persons, incidents or objects
connected with religion or mythology.
These facts may suggest that they represent some symbolism that has in
the course of time become obscured. One could also speculate that the string
figures are remnants of a lost art of communication of ancient peoples. Detailed
drawings illustrate the text
IS BN 978-974-8496-37-5
Order Code 21 797
US$25.00
Bangkok 1995, repr. from 1903; 441 pp., 47
pp. illus., 3 maps, 155 x 215 mm, pbk.
Kloss, Boden C.; In the Andamans and Nicobars
: Adventures in Ethnology
and Natural History
This reprint contains notes on the history of the islands, their fauna, flora,
geology and ethnology, and the anthropomorphy, customs and languages of the
various tribes that inhabit them.
IS BN 978-0-415-24669-9
Order Code 8 431
US$22.00
London 2000, 158 pp., 155 x 235 mm, pbk.
Law, Lisa; Sex Work in Southeast Asia:
The Place of Desire in a Time of
AIDS
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims
of the political economy, and submissive to western men.
The advent of
HIV/AIDS only compounds this image, as sex workers come to represent the
victims of, and vectors for, a deadly virus.
This book is a cultural critique of
HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting sex tourism industries in Southeast
Asia. By juxtaposing practical, contemporary issues of AIDS prevention with
current theories of subjectivity and identity Sex Work in Southeast Asia posits a
new place for a speaking sex worker subject.
This book will be vital up-to-date
research for scholars in cultural, political, social and urban geography, as well
as in development and gender studies.
IS BN 978-1-85649-879-1
Order Code 8 413
US$20.00
London/Bangkok 2000, 351 pp., 135 x 215
mm, pbk.
Liddle, Joanna & Sachiko Nakajima ; Rising Suns, Rising Daughters :
Gender,
Class and Power in Japan
Western interest in Japan has grown consistently since the war, but surprisingly
little is known about Japanese women.
This book explores the themes of
gender and class by tracing the changing position of women through significant
moments of history and into the contemporary period.
Their story repudiates
the commonly held view of the submissive Japanese woman, and shows how
women have been active agents in constructing new identities both in family
and public life.
The energy of the women’s liberation movement of the late
twentieth century resonates with echoes of struggle and resistance from earlier
times. Using a new conceptual framework, the authors demonstrate how gender
relations are crucially related to the construction of class, and show how
woman and gender relations are used as a resource in the struggle for power
between nations.
The contemporary material is based on detailed interviews,
conducted over two decades, with women who have challenged the stereotypes
normally attached to Japanese women and attained positions of influence in
professional life.
This book offers an original approach to the contemporary
issues of gender, class, and global politics, and will appeal to both specialist
and general readers.
IS BN 978-974-8496-78-8
Order Code 21 870
US$30.00
Bangkok 1996, repr. from 1970; 413 pp., 1
folded map, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Ma Huan; Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan:
The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores
(1433)
Ma Huan’s descriptions are based on personal observation of twenty countries
from Champa (Central Vietnam) in the East to Mecca in the West.
Ma
Huan was the Muslim interpreter of the famous Cheng Ho, commander of the
Chinese Fleet.
Of the sources for the history of southern Asia during the 15th
century, the Chinese authorities are the most rewarding, and of these the most
informative and interesting is Ma Huan.
The 15th century was the heroic age of
Chinese naval expansion; four Chinese fleets traversed the Indian Ocean simultaneously,
and flotillas explored “the four seas” from southern Africa to Timor.
The imperial court was thronged with royal visitors or envoys from 70 foreign
countries from Japan to Hormuz, and Chinese manufactures were sought after
in the markets of Asia from Majapahit to Baghdad.
This new translation is based on the definitive text established by the eminent
Chinese scholar Feng Ch’eng-Chun and first published in 1935. Mr. Mills’
Introduction contains accounts of Cheng Ho’s expeditions and Ma Huan’s book.
Eight appendices treat peripheral topics, mainly geographical and nautical;a
gazetteer records the names of some 700 places known to the Chinese when
their golden age of exploration ended in 1433; with the aid of printed and manuscript
sailing directions, an attempt is made to explain about 600 names and
legends in the remarkable maritime cartogram (“Mao K’un Map”) published in
the Wu Pei Chih, and to trace the stages of voyages made, inter alia, through
the Singapore Strait, from Sumatra to Ceylon (Pieh-lo-li, Beruwala), and from
Malacca to China.
This text obtains new significance for what is not in it: this
classic Chinese text shows no historical evidence to support Chinese claims to
the Spratlys.
IS BN 978-1-84277-167-9
Order Code 8 043
US$15.00
London 2002, 176 pp., 3 pp. Maps, 135 x
215 mm, pbk.
Marsden, Peter; The Taliban:
War and Religion in Afghanistan
This book explores the factors leading to the Taliban’s rapid rise to military
and political dominance, the cultural conflict between Western thinking and
the Taliban’s interpretation of Islamic values and the geo-political context of
conflict in the region.
This is an extensively updated and expanded edition of
the author’s previous book, The Taliban, taking into account the wholly new
context in which Afghanistan and its people find themselves in the wake of
the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York on September
11 , 2001
IS BN 978-974-480-067-1
Order Code 22 437
US$42.00
Bangkok 2005, 428 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Neef, Andreas (ed); Participatory Approaches for Sustainable Land Use in
Southeast Asia
This work comprises in-depth analyses and discussion of Participatory Research
and Development in action, with emphasis on the needs of rural communities in
marginal regions of Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao P.D.R., Nepal, the Philippines,
South China, Thailand and Vietnam. 38 scientists and development practitioners
share their extensive multidisciplinary experience and discuss the relevance,
application and pitfalls of participatory approaches to research and development.
Most of the chapters evolved form papers presented at the International
Workshop ‘Participatory Technology Development and Local Knowledge for
Sustainable Land Use in Southeast Asia’, held from 6-7 June 2001 in Chiang
Mai, Thailand.
Examples from the field cover the participatory development of soil and
water conservation technologies, gender-sensitive participatory methodologies,
participation in priority-setting for agricultural research, the use of Geographic
Information Systems in supporting participatory processes, and the benefits of
using local knowledge in managing natural resources.
While the contributions
contain a wealth of methodological innovations and conceptual advances in participatory
approaches, they also point to the conceptual and political limitations
and various dangers of misuse of participation in research and development
programs. Several, chapters provide evidence that a supportive institutional
and socio-political framework is conditional for successfully scaling-up and
institutionalizing participatory processes in government agencies and research
organizations. Only then participatory approaches will remain relevant beyond
the fashionable rhetoric of the mainstream participatory discourse.
This book is a valuable contribution to the controversial discourse on Participatory
Research and Development for scholars and development professionals.
IS BN 978-974-480-054-1
Order Code 22 413
US$18.00
Bangkok 2004, 120 pp., illus., 150 x 240
mm, pbk.
Scherzer, Karl Von; With the Austrian Frigate Novara in the Nicobar
Islands (1858)
Excerpted from the popular version of a report by Dr Karl von Scherzer, a
member of an extremely well-prepared, round-the-world expedition carried out
between 1857 and 1859, and sponsored by the Austrian imperial government.
The Nicobar Islands, now Indian territory, lay on one of the busiest shipping
routes in the world, and yet not much was systematically recorded about the
local population until well into the 20th century.
These people, numbering not
more than 6, 000 in all, lived from coconut exports, and to a lesser extent from
Pandanus trees, edible swallows’ nests and sea cucumbers.
The staff of the
Austrian expedition included geographers, geologists, and natural scientists, all
of whom contributed to von Scherzer’s report.
Von Scherzer himself was one
of only a very limited number of Europeans to come into contact with the local
people, except for ships’ captains, whose names the locals habitually adopted.
Captain John Bull, a local chieftain who accompanied various Austrians around
the southern islands of the archipelago, and other colorful indigenous people
were contributing unwittingly to their own destruction because the expedition
was looking for areas where Austrian colonial settlements could be set up.
The Austrian naval officers on board the Novara also produced a score of first observations
and an unproved navigational chart of the area, which is included here
as a folded map. The book includes a short history of the foreign relations of the
Nicobar Islands not found elsewhere.
IS BN 978-974-480-008-4
Order Code 22 298
US$45.00
Bangkok 2002, 674 pp., 24 pp. illus. in
color, 150 x 2 10 mm, pbk. The attached CD
illustrates the last part.
Schwarz, Jürgen, Wilfried A. Herrmann & Hanns-Frank Seller (eds.); Maritime
Strategies in Asia
The first-ever major study on maritime strategies in the Asian region and the
technical co-operation possibilities with German maritime industries, provides
an up-to date and comprehensive assessment of the maritime strategic concepts
and the navy capabilities of the coastal countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
From a European perspective Asia, stretching from the Indian Ocean to the
Far Eastern regions, is of crucial importance for world trade and international
stability.
But global and regional prosperity and stability are closely related
to the indispensable precondition of freedom of navigation for commercial
shipping and the unrestricted use of sea-lanes of communication (SLOCs).
For
many years, the prime maritime concern was militarily, not economic, as the
United States and other nations required secure maritime transport through the
sea-lanes of the Asian regions in times of military tensions and war.
Now the
emphasis has shifted to the economic component, but freedom of navigation for
commercial shipping will still have to be guaranteed by military or maritime
means, and depends to a growing part on modem technical equipment.
What are the major concerns? How well are nations in the region and outside
it prepared to deal with these challenges? Are their navies equipped to
match the new security environment and to defend the national interests? What
are the possibilities of international co-operation? An international team of
experts deals with these questions in this joint study led by the “Asia Strategic
Institute Hong Kong” and the “Institute of International Relations” at the German Federal Armed Forces University Munich.
The result is an indispensable
book for anyone conducting serious studies of maritime issues in Asia as well
as for the interested layman.
IS BN 978-981-230-074-4
Order Code 8 535
US$25.00
Singapore/Bangkok 2001, 353 pp., 150 x
230 mm, pbk.
Yao Souchou (ed.), House of Glass: Culture, Modernity, and the State in
Southeast Asia
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.
The contributors—many of whom work in
universities in the region—question the processes of cultural transformation
under conditions of globalization and rapid economics 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.
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