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A history of northern Thailand between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Explores how urban Southeast Asians view and manage their social life. By comparing the ways they live with their religious representations, with intimate and more distant others, and with their rapidly changing environment, the author demonstrates the marked similarities in the perception of individual and society in three civilisations.

Describes the physical characteristics of the weights and their relationships, their manufacture, standardization and usage as well as the various motifs, their origins and transference to Burma. This title also includes a discussion of the different animal shapes and their symbolic significance.

The village existed before capitalism and before the state. It has its own culture which owes little to urban influence. It took the Buddhism that came from outside and subordinated it to local beliefs. This book states that the Thai rural economy was a subsistence economy and remained so much longer than is commonly thought.

Positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history.

Philip Hirsch is a senior lecturer in geography at Sydney University.

States that changes in educational policy and approach are moving Thai education away from transmitting and producing knowledge and scholarship, and away from developing and honing individual abilities to think and learn. This book offers theoretical and analytical tools as well as firsthand information - both quantitative and qualitative.

Suitable for foreign investors as well as those considering relocating or retiring in Thailand, this book introduces the major investment choices in Thailand - real estate, gold, stocks, bonds, managed funds, and investment in a business - and gives details of past performance and investment procedures.

Laos is a land of festivals. Every village, every temple, and every ethnic minority not only holds its own special festivals but joins the wider Lao community in celebrating the national ones as well. This book explores the most important festivals of Laos and offers a glimpse into the spiritual and communal life of the Lao people.

What is a Buddhist response to political oppression and economic exploitation? Does Buddhism encourage passivity and victimization? This book addresses these questions, and many more, through the lens of the Buddhist teachings on karma. It also critically re-examines related teachings on equanimity (upekkha), generosity (dana), and merit (punna).

Examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, this study compares and contrasts the collective experience of trying to apply Islamic law in these two locations.

Each year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Indonesian television stations adopt Muslim themes in virtually all of their programmes, ranging from religious teaching to quiz programs to cooking shows. Using audience ethnography, the author shows how women and Islam have been 'framed' by the media in transitional Indonesia.

Analyzes the polarized structure of Islamic institutions in Malaysia, arguing that it is important for those in power to understand the broad outlines of the objectives of shariah before trying to move on to specifics.

Polygamy emerged as a political issue in Indonesia following the 1998 reformation that ushered in a period of social change. This study identifies the dynamics and causes that have contributed to the increasingly complex debate on polygamy in Indonesia among women's rights activists, state elites, religious leaders, and supporters of shariah.

Brings together studies of the decentralization of natural resource management in seven South and Southeast Asian countries. This book provides an explanation of the key concepts and debates in decentralization relevant to the management of forests, fisheries, and water in the region.

Thai politics often seem wild. This book features commentary on twelve years of change in Thailand's politics, society, culture, and environment. It features a kaleidoscope of the political and social jungle that is Thailand.

The Shan are the largest of the many national ethnic groups residing in the Union of Myanmar. This work traces the cultural and political history of the Shan people from their origins, to Myanmar independence, and up to the constitutional crisis of 1962. It highlights particularly the political affairs of the Shan state from 1946 to 1962.

An anthropological account of the multi-level dynamics that underlie the continuing electoral dominance of the Democrat Party in southern Thailand, a conspicuous anomaly in Thailand's political landscape. It includes a study of candidates, support groups, and election campaigns in the province of Songkhla in the eventful years 2004 and 2005.

In Indonesia, since the coming of Islam, zakat has been a means of worship, and its collection has been voluntary and decentralized. This work argues that in the post-New Order regime zakat practice changed structurally and institutionally through the enactment of a law on zakat management, followed by the establishment of a national zakat agency.

Considers the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community of a new Buddhist movement, a Karen millenarian Buddhist community on the Thai-Myanmar border, and female factory workers in Lamphun.

M R Nimitmongkol Navarat is one of the tragic figures of modern Thai literature. As a political prisoner in the late 1930s, Nimitmongkol wrote "The Dreams of an Idealist", which was seized by prison guards. This volume also includes his short drama, "The Emerald's Cleavage", written in English in the late 1930s.

Hui Muslims in China have lived with the Han Chinese for hundreds of years, maintaining their Islamic and cultural identity despite the powerful assimilation mechanisms of Chinese society. Today the urban Hui community is confronted with new pressures. This book examines the traditional social structure and kinship network of urban Hui Muslims.

Introduces readers to the worshippers and the cult of Tran Hung Dao, the legendary fourteenth-century hero and saviour of Vietnam who has evolved as a key symbol of the nation as well as an efficacious deity in its spiritual pantheon.

Examines the pressures on the Mieu of North Vietnam, where the Tay and the Kinh peoples are dominant, as they adjust to this non-Mieu world, by considering the relations between the Mieu and the Tay, the Kinh, and the central state.

A review of the politics and discourses of water use, sharing, and management, and their implications for local livelihoods. This book analyzes contested discourses on such topics as regional hydropower development, floods, and irrigation, along with the broader yet interrelated issues of gender, media, dialogue, and impact assessment.

The English translation of Zhou Daguan's work on Angkor, this work covers description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, animals, landscapes, and everyday life.

Explores the economic, environmental, and health benefits, as well as harmful consequences, of pesticide use in Thailand and Southeast Asia. This book includes descriptions of pests and the pesticides used to control them. It gives several perspectives on questions of safety, cost, and benefit for the environment, economy, and public health.

Examines the dynamics of Islamic discourse on sexuality and young Thai Muslims' interactions with modern urban Thai culture. This work illustrates young Thai Muslims' struggles to reconcile their traditional religious beliefs with the surrounding manifestations of modernization, globalization, consumerism, changing sexual mores, and gay rights.

Gijsbert Heeck (1619-1669) was a medicinal specialist with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His journal is based on the daily notes he made during his third trip to the East. This volume carries the selections from his journal that deal with Siam, accompanied by the original Dutch text.

Gives insight into the various aspects of stress, and shows how we can develop skilful ways to deal with stress and prevent burnout and other stress-related complaints. This book examines the various forms of stress we experience at work and in our private lives, giving particular attention to the causes of stress.