Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

Contents

C o n t E n t S ac k now l e d g m e n t s i x no t e o n t r a n s l i t e r at io n x i m a p s x i v Introduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday Life 1 Kathleen A. Gillogy and Kathleen M. Adams Part One Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities 9 1 Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect 14 Lorraine V. Aragon 2 Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective 27 Andrew Causey 3 Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos 37 Holly High 4 A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia 47 Judith Nagata Part Two Family, Households, and Livelihoods 59 5 Maling, a Hanunóo Girl from the Philippines 65 Harold C. Conklin 6 Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand 79 Kathleen Gillogly 7 Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order 89 Lucien M. Hanks, Jr. vi / Contents Part Three Crafting the Nation-State 101 8 Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand 107 Hjorleifur Jonsson 9 Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore 117 John Clammer 10 Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam 127 Christina Schwenkel Part Four World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity 137 11 The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand 143 Susan M. Darlington 12 Javanese Women and the Veil 154 Nancy Smith-Hefner 13 Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines 165 Katharine L. Wiegele Part Five Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment 177 14 Cultivating “Community” in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace 182 Kathleen M. Adams 15 The Fall of Thai Rocky 195 Pattana Kitiarsa 16 Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun 206 Sandra Cate Contents / vii 17 Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam 218 Nir Avieli Part Six War and Recovery 231 18 Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam 237 Shaun Kingsley Malarney 19 Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism 247 Elizabeth G. Traube 20 The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge 258 Eve Monique Zucker Part Seven Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations 269 21 When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home 273 Chris Lyttleton 22 “They Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What to Do”: Schooling Malaysian Indigenes 283 Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo 23 Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia’s Borderlands 295 Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons 24 Just Below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll 304 Gene Ammarell r e f e r e nc e s 317 s e l e c t e d f i l m r e s o u r c e s 3 4 3 c o n t r i b u t o r s 3 4 5 i n d e x 3 4 9 ...