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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - February 1997

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia. Edited by Janet Hoskins. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. ix, 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Robert L. Winzeler
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26 March 2010, pp. 256-258
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Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and Britain: The Making of Brunei Darussalam. By A. B. Hussainmiya. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxix, 447 pp. $45.00.
Graham Saunders
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26 March 2010, pp. 258-259
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The Traditional Literature of Cambodia. By Judith M. Jacob. London: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 282 pp. $52.00.
Thomas John Hudak
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26 March 2010, p. 260
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Meanings of Multiethnicity: A Case-Study of Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Singapore. By Lai Ah Eng. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvii, 233 pp. $69.00.
Jocelyn Armstrong
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26 March 2010, pp. 261-262
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Violence and the Dream People: The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960. By John D. Leary. Athens: Southeast Asia Series No. 95, Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 1995. xvi, 238 pp. $22.00 (paper).
Kirk Endicott
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26 March 2010, pp. 262-263
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The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere. By Anthony Milner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. vii, 328 pp. $59.95.
Cheah Boon Kheng
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26 March 2010, pp. 263-265
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The Singapore Economy. By Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson. Cheltenham, U.K. and Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1996. xiii, 286 pp. $94.95.
Robert E. Lipsey
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26 March 2010, pp. 265-266
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Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance. By Douglas E. Ramage. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xvii, 272 pp. $49.95.
Stephen A. Douglas
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26 March 2010, pp. 266-267
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Foreign Capital and Industrialization in Malaysia. By Rajah Rasiah. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xvi, 263 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
James V. Jesudason
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26 March 2010, pp. 267-269
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Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform. By Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xvi, 366 pp. $45.00.
Jane Hutchison
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26 March 2010, pp. 269-270
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From Upland to Irrigated Rice: The Development of Wet-Rice Agriculture in Rejang Musi, Southwest-Sumatra. By Jürg Schneider. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1995. xvi, 214 pp. DM42.
Koji Tanaka
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26 March 2010, pp. 270-271
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State and Trade in the Indonesian Archipelago. Edited by G. J. Schutte. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. viii, 199 pp. $26.00 (paper).
Leonard Y. Andaya
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26 March 2010, pp. 272-273
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Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse andJavanese Tales. By Laurie J. Sears. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. xxi, 349 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Ward Keeler
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26 March 2010, pp. 273-274
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Burmese Dance and Theatre. By Noel F. Singer. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 94 pp. $16.95.
Glenn Becker
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26 March 2010, pp. 274-275
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British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930–1957. By Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. x, 232 pp. $59.00 (cloth).
Ian Black
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26 March 2010, pp. 275-277
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Fragile Traditions: Indonesian Art in Jeopardy. Edited by Paul Michael Taylor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xi, 171 pp. $28.00.
Kathleen M. Adams
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26 March 2010, pp. 277-279
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Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation. By Thongchai Winichakul. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xvi, 228 pp. $34.00.
Richard A. O'Connor
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26 March 2010, pp. 279-281
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Pantheism and Monism in Javanese Suluk Literature: Islamic and Indian Mysticism in an Indonesian Setting. By P. J. Zoetmulder. Edited and Translated by M. C. Ricklefs. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. xvii, 381 pp. $47.00 (paper).
Nancy K. Florida
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26 March 2010, pp. 281-283
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26 March 2010, pp. 284-288
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Obituaries

Hugh Borton 1903–1995
James W. Morley
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26 March 2010, pp. 289-290
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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - February 1997

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia. Edited by Janet Hoskins. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. ix, 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and Britain: The Making of Brunei Darussalam. By A. B. Hussainmiya. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxix, 447 pp. $45.00.

The Traditional Literature of Cambodia. By Judith M. Jacob. London: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 282 pp. $52.00.

Meanings of Multiethnicity: A Case-Study of Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Singapore. By Lai Ah Eng. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvii, 233 pp. $69.00.

Violence and the Dream People: The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960. By John D. Leary. Athens: Southeast Asia Series No. 95, Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 1995. xvi, 238 pp. $22.00 (paper).

The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere. By Anthony Milner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. vii, 328 pp. $59.95.

The Singapore Economy. By Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson. Cheltenham, U.K. and Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1996. xiii, 286 pp. $94.95.

Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance. By Douglas E. Ramage. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xvii, 272 pp. $49.95.

Foreign Capital and Industrialization in Malaysia. By Rajah Rasiah. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xvi, 263 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform. By Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xvi, 366 pp. $45.00.

From Upland to Irrigated Rice: The Development of Wet-Rice Agriculture in Rejang Musi, Southwest-Sumatra. By Jürg Schneider. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1995. xvi, 214 pp. DM42.

State and Trade in the Indonesian Archipelago. Edited by G. J. Schutte. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. viii, 199 pp. $26.00 (paper).

Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse andJavanese Tales. By Laurie J. Sears. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. xxi, 349 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Burmese Dance and Theatre. By Noel F. Singer. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 94 pp. $16.95.

British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930–1957. By Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. x, 232 pp. $59.00 (cloth).

Fragile Traditions: Indonesian Art in Jeopardy. Edited by Paul Michael Taylor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xi, 171 pp. $28.00.

Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation. By Thongchai Winichakul. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xvi, 228 pp. $34.00.

Pantheism and Monism in Javanese Suluk Literature: Islamic and Indian Mysticism in an Indonesian Setting. By P. J. Zoetmulder. Edited and Translated by M. C. Ricklefs. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. xvii, 381 pp. $47.00 (paper).

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