Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia
Subtitle: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780520227477
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Asian studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Customs & Traditions; Asia - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; South East Asia; Ethnicity; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Southeast Asia; Anthropology - General; Asia, Southeastern; Congresses; Ethnology; Nationalism
First sentence: Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists, the fine essays in this collection explore the perspectives of hinterland ethnic minorities as they define the terms of their national belonging and struggle with coercive definitions of citizenship that emanate from state centers of power.