Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Deśawarṇana (Nāgarakṛtāgama). By Mpu Prapañca. Translated by Stuart Robson. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. Distributed by Cellar Book Store. viii, 159 pp. $30.00.
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Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures. Edited by Vicente L. Rafael. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xxiii, 331 pp. $39.95 (cloth); 12.95 (paper).
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The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle. By Ronald D. Renard. Boulder, Colo.: Lynn Rienner, 1996. xix, 148 pp. $38.00.
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Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Susan Rodgers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii, 333 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).
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Laos: A Country Study. Edited by Andrea Matles Savada. Area Handbook Series. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1995. xliii, 366 pp. $21.00.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1081-1082
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Minahasa Past and Present: Tradition and Transition in an Outer Island Region of Indonesia. Edited by Reimar Schefold. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1995. 128 pp.
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Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths. Essays in Honor of John R. W. Smail. Edited by Laurie Sears. Madison: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1993. 39.95 (cloth); 1995 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1084-1086
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Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. By Ann Laura Stoler. Durham, N. C: Duke University Press, 1995. xiv, 237 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1086-1087
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Gender and the Sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago. Edited by Laura Summers and William D. Wilder. Special issue of Indonesia Circle, No. 67 (November 1995). 195 pp.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1088-1090
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Indonesia's Foreign Policy Under Suharto: Aspiring to International Leadership. By Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1996. vi, 210 pp.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1090-1091
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Thailand's Durable Premier: Phibun Through Three Decades, 1932–1957. By Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiii, 328 pp. $38.00.
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Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Edited by K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University Press, 1995. 288 pp. $20.00 (paper).
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The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines. By Mark R. Thompson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xiii, 258 pp. $32.50.
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The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore. By Christopher Tremewan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. xii, 252 pp. $65.00.
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Thailand's Struggle for Democracy: The Life and Times of M. R. Seni Pramoj. By David Van Praagh. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1996. xviii, 358 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
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Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali. By Margaret J. Wiener. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xiv, 445 pp. $29.95.
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Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State. By Jeffrey A. Winters. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1996. xvi, 241 pp. $35.00.
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Film and Video Reviews
Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway. By Akbar S. Ahmed. London: BBC Books, 1993. 224 pp. 31 color plates. £16.99; $24.95 (cloth). - Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World. Hugh Purcell, Executive Producer, Akbar Ahmed, Principal Consultant and Narrator. Six videos, ca. 50 minutes each: 1: “Foundations,” 2: “The Challenge of the Past,” 3: “Struggling with Modernity,” 4: “Paradise Lies at the Feet of the Mother,” 5: “Among the Non-Believers,” 6: “The Last Crusade.” London: BBC Enterprises, Ltd. New York: Ambrose Video Publishing Inc., 1993. $99.95 each, $495.00 set of six.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1104-1107
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Books Received
Other Books Received
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Obituaries
Jackson Bailey 1925–1996
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