Berghahn Books has recently released an edited collection titled Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands (thanks to David for the tip!).
Edited by Alexander Horstmann (page in German) and Reed Wadley, the book’s promotional material argues that its “completely new approach to borders and border crossing…suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia.”
Exciting stuff.
While I have not found a full list, its contributors apparently include “anthropologists from Europe, the USA, Japan and Southeast Asia”. For the many students and scholars working on Southeast Asian border topics, I reckon this volume may be worth a look. When Andrew or I track down a copy no doubt one of us will post some more detailed thoughts.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Andrew Walker // Sep 12, 2006 at 12:32 pm
No anthropologists from Australia! How could they be so insensitive?!
2 Kev // Sep 23, 2006 at 1:00 pm
The full list is…
Amster, M. “Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the kelabit Highlands of Borneo”
Askew, M “Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the southern Thai borderland”
Chou, C “Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia”
Cummings, W. “Would-Be Centres: The texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar”
Davis, S “Premodren Flows in Postmodern China:Globalisation and the Sipsongpanna Tais”
Hortsmann, A “Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thai-Malaysian frontier”
Niti, P “Once were Burmese Shans”
Sprenger, G “Political Periphery, Cosmological Centre: The reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos Thailand border”
Tirtosudarmo, R “In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau”
Wadley, R “Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia” Introduction.
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