Centering the Margin

Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-591-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Asian Anthropologies

In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders as part of their everyday life. They show that people are not only constrained by borders; the crossing of borders also opens up new options of agency. Making active use of these, border-crossing actors construct their own live projects on the border in multiple ways against the original intention of the nation-state. Based on their intimate knowledge of the interaction of communities, anthropologists from Europe, the USA, Japan and Southeast Asia provide a vivid picture of the effects of state policies at the borders on these communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horstmann, Alexander

Wadley, Reed L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Figures and Tables

Introduction: Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia

Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley

CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS

Chapter 1. “Once were Burmese Shans”: Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand

Niti Pawakapan

Chapter 2. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar

William Cummings

Chapter 3. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos–Thailand Border

Guido Sprenger

CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS

Chapter 4. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais

Sara Davis

Chapter 5. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia

Cynthia Chou

Chapter 6. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau

Riwanto Tirtosudarmo

CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS

Chapter 7. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand–Malaysian Frontier

Alexander Horstmann

Chapter 8. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland

Marc Askew

Chapter 9. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo

Matthew H. Amster

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Horstmann, Alexander
Alexander Horstmann teaches Social Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Münster and is a Fellow of the Study Group Islamic Culture – Modern Society at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen. Among his major publications include Class Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand, Transaction, 2002.

Wadley, Reed L.
Reed L. Wadley (1962-2008) was Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, USA. His research included borderlands, warfare, colonialism, natural resource management and historical ecology, involving Iban communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Among his publications were Punitive expeditions and divine revenge: Oral and colonial histories of rebellion and pacification in western Borneo, 1886-1902, Ethnohistory (2004).

Alexander Horstmann teaches Social Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Münster and is a Fellow of the Study Group Islamic Culture – Modern Society at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen. Among his major publications include Class Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand, Transaction, 2002.