Hill Tribes/Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore | Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng | Explores religious modernization and change within the Singapore Chinese society, focusing on how Chinese religious syncretism – Shenism – is being forced to change and adapt to the modern needs of society and state. Examines the process of Buddhicisation of the Chinese religious syncretism and a movement towards Reformist Buddhism within the Chinese community. Discusses how the process of bureaucratization results in the separation of th ...Continue Reading | English | 79783 |
| Thailand's Economic Recovery | Thai Update (Conference) (2004 : Macquarie University) | Describes the resilience of the Thai economy from 1997 to 2004, considering the change in the structure of the Thai economy, growth with price stability, fiscal balances, financial sector restructuring, dynamism of the real sector, and export-oriented industries. Discusses Thai politics in 2003-04 under Thaksin phenomenon, cultural factors that influence doing business in Thailand by the Australians, opportunities for foreign business in Thailan ...Continue Reading | English | 79782 |
| Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, Vol. 4: Rural China in the Reform Era | Describes the evolving nature of rural politics during the post-Mao era, studying the cadre responsibility system at the local level, the relationships between local business and local government, and the outcomes of the central government's experiment to gain greater legitimacy for village-level cadres by introducing popular elections for these cadres. Explores the centrality of land and farming, concerning farmer's recollections about life on ...Continue Reading | English | 79767 | |
| Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Vol. 4: Constructions of the Feminine | Focuses on how the Asian women have been represented in discourse emerging from nation, religion, and traditional culture. Discusses gender and morality in the making of race the state and sexuality in Indonesia the status of women in Singapore the politics of nationalism, sexuality, and race in Singapore and communist Vietnam. Explains legal codes that reveal how nations imagine women, particular laws and their connection to the Chinese wo ...Continue Reading | English | 79756 | |
| Universal Health-Care Demands in Rural Northern Thailand: Gender and Ethnicity | Thitiwan Sricharoen | Evaluates the different health-care demands of population sub-groups, such as men, women, and ethnic minorities, within the framework of the 30-Baht universal health-care scheme. Describes the data sample and a brief overview of the research area. Discusses the relationship between vulnerability and the risk chain in terms of risk, risk management, and the outcome of the risk. Covers an empirical risk management of the sample population. Prov ...Continue Reading | English | 79692 |
| My dear Southeast Asia | Contains various articles on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian countries e.g. the Southeast Asian Studies Program (SEAS) at Thammasat University interviews with ASEAN secretariat, the SEAS founder, and a historian. Deals with international relationship and political sciences, noting the friendship, borders, nationalism, emotion and reasons. Looks at Thai Southern border, Malay ethnicity, Patani special government, Chinese civilization, the ov ...Continue Reading | Thai | 79544 | |
| Rian Thai: International Journal of Thai Studies | Comprises 14 articles related to variety topics of Thai Studies from a number of scholars. Studies Lan Na kingdom regarding the golden age of Lan Na, and various types of food playing significant roles in the Lan Na musician's rituals. Describes Thai society and culture reflecting from Thai horror film (2001-2008) and the influence of the Phra An (Maitreya) myth in Thai society. Reviews historical context of the rising of Thon Buri Kingdom in ...Continue Reading | English | 79531 | |
| Thai Diasporas and Livelihood Strategies in Thai Society | Monchai Phongsiri | Reviews previous research on Thai diasporas and livelihood strategies in Thai society. Conducts a documentary review of related theories and concepts, considering how they survive in society. Summarizes the results on Thai diasporas from a field study on Thai diasporas' means of living and their livelihood strategies in three provinces i.e. Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, and Ranong. Mentions problems of Thai diasporas and the impact of livelih ...Continue Reading | English | 79457 |
| A Foreign Princess in the Siamese Court: Princess Dara Rasami, The Politics of Gender and Ethnic Difference in Nineteenth-Century Siam | Woodhouse, Leslie Ann | Explores the life of Princess Dara Rasami, an ethnically non-Siamese women who became a consort of the Siamese King from the late nineteenth-to early-twentieth centuries. Traces women in the historiography of Thailand, the palace, and historiography of Lan Na and Thai history. Examines Dara Rasami's career in the world of Siam's Inner Palace where the king's wife and consorts lived. Deals with topics on the space, social status and circulation ...Continue Reading | English | 79438 |
| A Foreign Princess in the Siamese Court: Princess Dara Rasami, The Politics of Gender and Ethnic Difference in Nineteenth-Century Siam | Woodhouse, Leslie Ann | Explores the life of Princess Dara Rasami, an ethnically non-Siamese women who became a consort of the Siamese King from the late nineteenth-to early-twentieth centuries. Traces women in the historiography of Thailand, the palace, and historiography of Lan Na and Thai history. Examines Dara Rasami's career in the world of Siam's Inner Palace where the king's wife and consorts lived. Deals with topics on the space, social status and circulation ...Continue Reading | English | 79438 |
| A Foreign Princess in the Siamese Court: Princess Dara Rasami, The Politics of Gender and Ethnic Difference in Nineteenth-Century Siam | Woodhouse, Leslie Ann | Explores the life of Princess Dara Rasami, an ethnically non-Siamese women who became a consort of the Siamese King from the late nineteenth-to early-twentieth centuries. Traces women in the historiography of Thailand, the palace, and historiography of Lan Na and Thai history. Examines Dara Rasami's career in the world of Siam's Inner Palace where the king's wife and consorts lived. Deals with topics on the space, social status and circulation ...Continue Reading | English | 79438 |
| Social and Cultural Diversity in Humanities | Provides discussions and articles from academic seminar held by Thammasat University. Focuses on social and cultural diversity in humanities related to agreement in social and cultural diversity, irony of diversity, and diorama of diversity. Analyzes articles related to politics in literature, differences in music and clothing industry, history of ethnic groups in Myanmar, social diversity among migrants, Chinese culture, mural paintings on Bud ...Continue Reading | Thai | 79174 | |
| The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia | Scott, James C | Introduces Zomia, the largest remaining region of the world whose peoples have not yet been fully incorporated into national-states. Explores why the people of Zomia choose to avoid the state. Traces the important role of irrigated rice as an effective means of consolidating political power in the lowlands of Southeast Asia prior to the twentieth century. Discusses how the mountains of Zomia provide a safe haven for people wishing to avoid sta ...Continue Reading | English | 78879 |
| Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia | Warren, James Francis | Reveals the history of Southeast Asia's underclass i.e. the peasants, urban coolies, rickshawmen, prostitutes, maritime raiders and sea nomads who played a formative role in the region's remarkable transformation. Focuses on important themes such as the meaning and constitution of culture, the global political economy, human trafficking, urbanization, and colonial policy and practice. | English | 78738 |
| Society and Politics in Southeast Asia | Jha, Ganganath | Compiles papers presented at national and international seminars, including themes and issues on relevance, such as ethnicity, social and political problems, and the dynamics of disputes over the Spratlys in South China sea. Deals with the role of Indian diaspora in the region, focusing on society and politics of ten countries of Southeast Asia with emphasis on Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia and Myanmar. Mentions that although Sou ...Continue Reading | English | 78726 |
| Political Islam in Southeast Asia | Means, Gordon Paul | Examines the historical accounts from an Islamic perspective of how the Prophet Muhammad received revealed truth directly from God, and how Muhammad forged the first community of believers. Presents Islam under colonial rule, focusing on Portugal's impact, British rule in Malaya, the Spanish conquest, and the legacy of colonial rule for Southeast Asian Islam. Covers the struggles of decolonization related to independence without consensus in ...Continue Reading | English | 78716 |
| The Muslim Dayak Katab Kebahan of Melawi District, West Borneo: Globalization, Religion, and Ethnicity in Indigenous Community Identity | Zaenuddin | Examines the impact and contribution of globalization to the dynamics of local community in West Kalimantan, especially with regards to the religion, ethnicity, and identity of Dayak communities. Explores the process of ethno-religious identity formulation of the community and the influences of globalization toward inter-group relations within ethnic groups in Melawi District, West Kalimantan. Suggests that the Muslim Dayuk Katab Kebaban commun ...Continue Reading | English | 78592 |
| The Muslim Dayak Katab Kebahan of Melawi District, West Borneo: Globalization, Religion, and Ethnicity in Indigenous Community Identity | Zaenuddin | Examines the impact and contribution of globalization to the dynamics of local community in West Kalimantan, especially with regards to the religion, ethnicity, and identity of Dayak communities. Explores the process of ethno-religious identity formulation of the community and the influences of globalization toward inter-group relations within ethnic groups in Melawi District, West Kalimantan. Suggests that the Muslim Dayuk Katab Kebaban commun ...Continue Reading | English | 78592 |
| The Land of Kambu: Ethnicity and Territory in Early Cambodia, 7th - 11th Centuries | Lowman, Ian | Addresses the relationship between ethnicity and territory in Cambodian history from the early 7th until the 11st century. Deals with pre-Angkorian polyethnicity , and the formation of Cambodia (Kambujadesa). Analyzes the perception of Khmer ethnicity related to the territorial idea of Cambodia (Kambujadesa). Explores the evidence suggesting that Khmer and the Sanskrit Kambu were nearly synonymous terms by the 10th century when Khmer came ...Continue Reading | English | 78537 |
| The Land of Kambu: Ethnicity and Territory in Early Cambodia, 7th - 11th Centuries | Lowman, Ian | Addresses the relationship between ethnicity and territory in Cambodian history from the early 7th until the 11st century. Deals with pre-Angkorian polyethnicity , and the formation of Cambodia (Kambujadesa). Analyzes the perception of Khmer ethnicity related to the territorial idea of Cambodia (Kambujadesa). Explores the evidence suggesting that Khmer and the Sanskrit Kambu were nearly synonymous terms by the 10th century when Khmer came ...Continue Reading | English | 78537 |
