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Southeast Asian Perspectives on
Power

Over the last half-century, Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable, far-reaching changes that have consequences not only for large-scale institutions and processes, but also for everyday life. This book focuses on the topic of power in relation to these transformations, and looks at its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.

Consisting of empirically rich case studies, the book works from the ground up, seeking to capture Southeast Asians own perspectives, conceptualizations and experiences of power. It discusses the machinations of Indonesian politicians and the aspirations and struggles of marginal Lao bureaucrats, as well as looking at the mass Prayer Power rallies in the Philippines and the self-cultivation practices of individual Thai Buddhists. Drawing on these diverse ethnographies, the book lays out a new framework for the analysis of power in Southeast Asia, one which traces how people become orientated towards or away from certain models, practices and configurations of power.

It reveals how power cannot be pinned down to a single definition, but is woven into Southeast Asian lives in many complex, subtle and often surprising ways. Integrating theoretical debates with empirical evidence drawn from the contributing authors own research, this book is of particular interest to scholars and students of Anthropology and Asian Studies.

Liana Chua is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University, West London, UK.

Joanna Cook is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Nicholas Long is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology and a Junior Research Fellow at St Catharines College at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Lee Wilson is a Research Associate in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Victor T. King

University of Leeds

and

Michael Hitchcock

University of Chichester

The books in this series incorporate basic ethnographic description into a wider context of responses to development, globalization and change. Each book embraces broadly the same concerns, but the emphasis in each differs as authors choose to concentrate on specific dimensions of change or work out particular conceptual approaches to the issues of development. Areas of concern include: nation-building, technological innovations in agriculture, ruralurban migration, the expansion of industrial and commercial employment, the rapid increase in cultural and ethnic tourism, the consequences of deforestation and environmental degradation, the modernization of tradition, ethnic identity and conflict, and the religious transformation of society.

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

An introduction

Victor T. King and William D. Wilder

The Changing Village Environment in the Southeast

Applied anthropology and environment reclamation in the northern Philippines

Ben J. Wallace

The Changing World of Bali

Religion, society and tourism

Leo Howe

Modernity and Malaysia

Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads

Alberto Gomes

The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia

The inalienable gift of territory

Cynthia Chou

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

Edited by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long and Lee Wilson

Southeast Asian Perspectives
on Power

Edited by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook,
Nicholas Long, and Lee Wilson

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long and Lee Wilson

The right of Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long and Lee Wilson to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Southeast Asian perspectives on power/edited by Liana Chua [et al.].
p. cm. (The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Power (Social sciences)Southeast Asia. 2. EthnologySoutheast
Asia. 3. Southeast AsiaSocial life and customs. I. Chua, Liana.
II. Series: Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.
HN690.8.Z9P676 2011
303.40959dc232011040531

ISBN: 978-0-415-68345-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-12312-6 (ebk)

Contents

victor T . King
1
LIANA CHUA, JOANNA COOK, NICHOLAS LONG AND LEE WILSON
2
SHELLY ERRINGTON
3
JOANNA COOK
4
ADRIAN VICKERS
5
CATHERINE ALLERTON
6
KRISNA UK
7
RUTH E. TOULSON
8
LOREN RYTER
9
SARINDA SINGH
10
RICHARD BAXSTROM
11
MARKUS SCHLECKER
12
DEIRDRE DE LA CRUZ

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Contributors

Catherine Allerton teaches Anthropology at the London School of Economics and has carried out a total of two years fieldwork in rural west Flores. She has recently edited a special edition of Anthropological Forum on Spiritual Landscapes of Southeast Asia and has a monograph, Potent Landscapes , forthcoming with University of Hawaii Press.

Richard Baxstrom is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His monograph, Houses in Motion: the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia , was published in 2008 by Stanford University Press. Together with Todd Meyers, he also co-edited the volume anthropologies , published by Creative Capitalism in 2008.

Liana Chua is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University and Evans Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of The Christianity of Culture: conversion, ethnic citizenship, and the matter of religion in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo , forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

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