Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia

Case Studies, Comparisons, Critique

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112 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041230809 (ISBN)

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This book builds upon landmark contributions by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson to interdisciplinary scholarship on Southeast Asia. Five anthropologists revisit these classic analyses, situating local notions of power in contemporary dynamics through fieldwork, areal comparisons, and historical studies.

This book builds upon landmark contributions by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson to interdisciplinary scholarship on Southeast Asia, particularly their essays on how worldview and indigenous notions of power have shaped society and politics. Five anthropologists revisit these classic analyses, situating local notions of power in contemporary dynamics through fieldwork, areal comparisons, and historical studies in this volume. Their comparisons, contrasts, and ethnography in contemporary Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia examine local notions of power in relation to hierarchy, socialism, indigeneity, Buddhism, marginalization, and political debates.

The case studies range in focus from intellectual property and religious freedom in Indonesia, understandings of socialism and village-state relations in Laos, changing interpersonal dynamics in fieldwork encounters in Thailand that span four decades to inclusiveness and pluralism in interethnic relations between hill and valley peoples across the region over millennia. The case studies are accompanied by an essay on the lasting value of comparative, regional, and historical perspectives on Southeast Asia. The essays challenge the mainstream focus on culture as meaning and instead situate cultural trends in history, function, and interpersonal negotiations.

Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia will be valuable to researchers and students of Anthropology, Politics, Asian Studies, and International Relations and those interested in the history and geopolitics of Southeast Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Anthropological Forum.

Hjorleifur R. Jonsson, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, is an anthropologist of Southeast Asia. He is the author of Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand and Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien. His recent work explores Thai-language fiction and ethnography.

Introduction - Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia 1. Pluralities of Power in Indonesia’s Intellectual Property Law, Regional Arts and Religious Freedom Debates 2. It was not the Government that did it: it was us! Water Supply in Kandon as an Example of Living Lao Socialism 3. Power Protection, Social Relationships and the Ethnographer 4. Losing the Remote: Exploring the Thai Social Order with the Early and Late Hanks 5. Revisiting Power in a Southeast Asian Landscape – Discussant’s Comments

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781041230809 / 9781041230809
Zustand	Neuware