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an excellent collection that should be read by all scholars of
Southeast Asia, and that should provoke more thought and research
on the people whose lives and practicescontinue to connect
Southeast Asian nation-states. . JRAI The literature on borders and
borderlands, the state, globalization and ethnic minorities, is now
huge, but the editors of this book do a good job of summarizing
most of it in their introduction...This book will swiftly become a
key reading in university courses dealing with borderlands and
Southeast Asia. . Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde each
of the studies is well worth making available and the set of them
offers a useful addition to the literature on borders and
migration. . Anthropos 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. Alexander Horstmann teaches Social
Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Munster 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.
Reed L. Wadley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University
of Missouri, USA. His research includes borderlands, warfare,
colonialism, natural resource management and historical ecology,
involving Iban communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Among his
publications are Punitive expeditions and divine revenge: Oral and
colonial histories of rebellion and pacification in western Borneo,
1886-1902, Ethnohistory (2004)."
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.
In light of the tremendous changes that have come to the island of
Borneo in recent decades, this volume takes a detailed historical
look at the Borneo environment from native, colonial and national
perspectives. It examines change and continuity in the economic,
political and social dimensions of human-environment interactions.
Reflecting the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of
environmental history, the book brings together an international
group of historians, anthropologists, geographers and social
foresters, all looking through a historical lens at the environment
in the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian
province of Kalimantan and Brunei. Drawing on extensive archival
research and fieldwork, these ten original contributions encompass
eleven centuries of history on Borneo, examining interrelated
topics that include long-distance trade, conservation, land tenure,
resource access, property rights, perceptions of the environment,
migration, and development policy and practice.
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