This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conduct...

The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of sto...

There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The hu...

Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, w...

In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women a...

While the image of modern Myanmar Burma tends to be couched in human rights terms and especially ...

The fascinating and controversial (but also personal) story of a 6-year research program based at...

This volume examines the changing relations between China and Burma Myanmar since Burmese indepen...

In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the soc...

First published in 1975, B.J. Terwiel's Monks and Magic remains a widely cited text. This is an a...

Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia explores Indonesian transnational political networks i...

Ships of empire carried not just merchandise, soldiers and administrators but also equine genes f...

One of the first conflicts of the Cold War, the Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war fought betw...

This highly acclaimed study describes Aum Shinrikyo's history, examines the various conflicts it ...

When France laid claim to the territories that became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading p...

In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the soc...

Focusing on the nexus between religion, the nation, citizenship and political identity, this firs...

This book tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfina...

Singapore has few natural resources but, in a relatively short history, its economic and social d...

This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hu...

Histories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and o...

The historic electoral defeat suffered in 2018 by Barisan Nasional (BN), which had ruled Malaysia...

Future Forward deals with a remarkable phenomenon in Thailand's recent politics: the rise of a ne...

This innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (a...

Laos has long been considered by ethnologists as a unique place of study. To this day, diverse et...

Striking new insights into understanding community in Myanmar In this first anthropological study...

The late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of t...

Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of t...

Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese ...

This engaging volume brings new perspectives to the much-studied field of gender in Japan by focu...

In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of r...

Lanna Buddhism is a variant of Theravada Buddhism found in northern Thailand and neighbouring are...