"This important book, full of new and original perspectives, will
be of great interest to students and specialists of Southeast Asia.
It also makes important contributions to the anthropological and
historical study of cultural citizenship, postcolonial nation
building, and the dynamics of ethnic identity."--Suzanne Brenner,
author of "The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and
Modernity in Java
"This stimulating volume of essays makes a very strong
contribution to an understanding of how pre-modern cultural
diversity in some parts of Southeast Asia have been reconfigured as
modern states have promoted distinctive and powerfully backed
'imagingings' of nation."--Charles Keyes, author of "Social Memory
and Crises of Modernity: Politics of Identity in Thailand and
Laos
"This tightly focused and high quality volume will make an
important contribution to Southeast Asian studies, while connecting
the rich ethnographic literature of that region with a set of
contemporary theoretical questions that transcend geographic
areas."--James Ferguson, author of "Expectations of Modernity:
Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
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