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Volume 55 - Issue 4 - November 1996

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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.
Ian Caldwell
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26 March 2010, pp. 1074-1075
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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).
Alfred W. McCoy
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26 March 2010, pp. 1075-1078
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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.
E. Paul Durrenberger
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26 March 2010, pp. 1078-1079
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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).
Charles A. Coppel
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26 March 2010, pp. 1079-1080
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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.
Martin Stuart-Fox
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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.
Harold Beyer Broch
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26 March 2010, pp. 1082-1084
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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).
William H. Frederick
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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).
William D. Wilder
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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.
David Baldwin
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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.
Michael Malley
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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.
Arlene Becker Neher
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26 March 2010, pp. 1091-1093
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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).
C. Michele Thompson
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26 March 2010, pp. 1093-1095
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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.
Alfred W. McCoy
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26 March 2010, pp. 1095-1097
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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.
David Martin Jones
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26 March 2010, pp. 1097-1098
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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).
E. Bruce Reynolds
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26 March 2010, pp. 1099-1100
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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.
Carol Warren
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26 March 2010, pp. 1100-1101
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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.
Dwight Y. King
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26 March 2010, pp. 1101-1103
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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.
Frederick Mathewson Denny
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26 March 2010, pp. 1104-1107
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Obituaries

Jackson Bailey 1925–1996
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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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

Indonesia's Foreign Policy Under Suharto: Aspiring to International Leadership. By Leo Suryadinata. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1996. vi, 210 pp.

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.

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).

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.

The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore. By Christopher Tremewan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. xii, 252 pp. $65.00.

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).

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.

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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