The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction

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Psychology Press, 2003 - Anthropology - 384 pages
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.
 

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a field of anthropological enquiry?
1
Anthropology and the colonial impact 19001950
25
Anthropology in the period of decolonization
68
peasants as partsocieties
156
Ethnicity identity and nationalism
193
Ecology and environmental change
231
Gender and the sexes
262
Urban ways of life
289
Conclusion
308
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