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'Male' and 'Female' in Developing Southeast Asia

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women

General Editors: Shirley Ardener and Jackie Waldren, for The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford

'Male' and 'Female' in Developing Southeast Asia

Edited by
WazirJahanKarim

First published 1995 by Berg Publishers

Published 2020 by Routledge
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Wazir Jahan Karim 1995

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ISBN 13: 978-0-8549-6905-0 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-8597-3027-0 (pbk)

This book is dedicated to Sir Raymond and Lady Rosemary Firth whose pioneering research on anthropology in Malaysia introduced Southeast Asian ethnography to the future generation of anthropologists.

Contents

Prologue: A Woman Looks Back on the Anthropology of Women and Feminist Anthropology

Rosemary Firth

Introduction: Genderising Anthropology in Southeast Asia

Wazir Jahan Karim

Bilateralism and Gender in Southeast Asia

Wazir Jahan Karim

Gender at the Margins of Southeast Asia

Otome Klein-Hutheesing

PART II Ethnography and Culture

Modern Malay Women and the Message of the 'Veil'

Judith Nagata

Engendering Disquiet: On Kinship and Gender in Bali

Mark Hobart

Buddhism, Merit Making and Gender: The Competition for Salvation in Laos

Mayoury Ngaosyvathn

Vietnamese Women and Confucianism: Creating Spaces from Patriarchy

Stephen O'Harrow

Performance and Gender in Javanese Palace Tradition

Felicia Hughes-Freelana

PART III Methodological Issues

Redefining the 'Maybahay' or Housewife: Reflections on the Nature of Women's Work in the Philippines

Jean Frances Illo

The Significance of 'Eating': Cooperation, Support, and Reputation in Kelantan Malay Households

Ingrid Rudie

Rewriting Gender and Development Anthropology in Southeast Asia

Penny Van Esterik

1. 1. Prologue: A Woman Looks Back on the Anthropology of Women and Feminist Anthropology
   2. Introduction: Genderising Anthropology in Southeast Asia
   3. Bilateralism and Gender in Southeast Asia
   4. Gender at the Margins of Southeast Asia
2. PART II Ethnography and Culture
   1. Modern Malay Women and the Message of the 'Veil'
   2. Engendering Disquiet: On Kinship and Gender in Bali
   3. Buddhism, Merit Making and Gender: The Competition for Salvation in Laos
   4. Vietnamese Women and Confucianism: Creating Spaces from Patriarchy
   5. Performance and Gender in Javanese Palace Tradition
3. PART III Methodological Issues
   1. Redefining the 'Maybahay' or Housewife: Reflections on the Nature of Women's Work in the Philippines
   2. The Significance of 'Eating': Cooperation, Support, and Reputation in Kelantan Malay Households
   3. Rewriting Gender and Development Anthropology in Southeast Asia

Guide

Rosemary Firth is currently retired. She completed two periods of fieldwork in Kelantan, Malaysia, in 1939-40 and 1963. She has taught at the Institute of Education, London University after the war. Her special interests have always been giving anthropological insights to lay audiences, especially in the fields of family life, women's affairs, nutrition and health. Her publications of main interest are, Housekeeping Among Malay Peasants, (Athlone, 1966), 'The Social Images of Man and Woman', Biosocial Aspect of Sex, Journal of Biosocial Science, 1970, Supplement No. 2 and 'From Wife to Anthropologist' in Crossing Cultural Boundaries, The Anthropological Experience, ed. Solon T. Kimball and James B. Watson (Chandler, 1972).

Jean Francis Illo is a research associate of the Institute of Philippines Culture, where she heads the Women's Studies programme. She is author of Irrigation in the Philippines: Impact on Women and their Household; The Case of the Aslong Project, 1988 (Population Council, Bangkok), and co-author of Women and Men in Rainfleld Farming Systems: Case Studies of Households in the Bicol Region, 1988 (Institute of Philippines Culture) and Fishers, Traders, Farmers, Wives: The Life Stories of Ten Women in a Fishing Village, 1990 (Institute of Philippines Culture). She has also written several articles on women and rural development.

Mark Hobart is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has conducted extensive research in South Bali, and amongst his books are; Ideas of Identity, the Interpretation of Kinship in Bali (Universitas Udayana, 1980), A Balinese Village Remembered (University of Gadjah Mada Press, 1991) and The Growth of Ignorance: A Critique of Development (Routledge, In press). He has also contributed numerous chapters in books, including 'Is God Evil?', ed. Parkin (Blackwell, 1985) and 'Anthropos through the Looking-glass: Or How to Teach the Balinese to Bark' in Reason and Morality, ed. Overing (Tavistock, 1985).

Felicia Hughes-Freeland is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College of Swansea, Wales. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Java and Bali and has published articles on different aspects of Indonesian culture and social change with reference to Javanese performance. She is currently writing up her research, which has so far been expressed in an ethnographic film entitled The Dancer and the Dance, and is also working on a project about television and social change.

Wazir Jahan Karim is Professor in Anthropology at Universiti Sains Malaysia and currently Convenor of the Women and Human Resource Studies Unit. She is author of Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things (Athlone, 1981), editor and co-author of Emotions of Culture: A Malay Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990) author of Women and Culture: Between Malay Adat and Islam (Westview, 1993) and co-editor and co-author of Gendered Fields (Routledge, 1992) . She has also published several articles on the Ma' Betise and the Malays, and is currently working on the anthropology of goods and consumption.

Otome Klein-Hutheesing

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