The rapid postwar economic growth in Southeast Asia region has led
to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with
the development of new types of anthropological research in the
region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures
have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own
projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national
cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the
expansion of international capitalism, has led to increasing flows
of money, people, languages and cultures across national
boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural
forms.
This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary
Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries
across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of
nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the
micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such
as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world
religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global
and the local are the various streams of migrants within the
region, including labor migrants responding to the changing
distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving
in response to natural disaster.
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