Civilizing the margins
Subtitle: Southeast Asian government policies for the development of minorities
By: edited by Christopher R. Duncan
Contributors: Duncan, Christopher R
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Government relations; Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Politics and government; Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions; Minorities -- Southeast Asia; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Southeast Asia; Social planning -- Southeast Asia; Rural development -- Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government
Notes: "Earlier versions of some of the chapters in this book were presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Boston"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Legislating modernity among the marginalized / Christopher R. Duncan; title: Into the mainstream or into the backwater? Malaysian assimilation of Orang Asli / Kirk Endicott and Robert Knox Dentan; title: Minorities in the Philippines: ancestral lands and autonomy in theory and practice / James F. Eder and Thomas M. McKenna; title: From development to empowerment: changing Indonesian government policies toward indigenous minorities / Christopher R. Duncan; title: Developing the "hill tribes" of northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly; title: Oxymoronic development: the military as benefactor in the border regions of Burma / Curtis W. Lambrecht; title: Becoming Socialist or becoming Kinh? Government policies for ethnic minorities in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam / Pamela McElwee; title: All Lao? Minorities in the Lao People's Democratic Republic / Jan Ovesen; title: Foreigners and honorary Khmers: ethnic minorities in Cambodia / Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell