Facets of power and its limitations
Subtitle: political culture in Southeast Asia
By: edited by Ing-Britt Trankell and Laura Summers.
Contributors: Trankell, Ing-Britt.; Summers, Laura.
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.; 24
Publisher: Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Political anthropology -- Asia, Southeastern -- Congresses.; Political culture -- Asia, Southeastern -- Congresses.; Politics and culture -- Asia, Southeastern -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The papers in this volume were first presented at a conference on 'Political Culture in Southeast Asia,' held in Uppsala, 1-3 September 1995 ... in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies"--Pref.
Errata slip inserted.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ing-Britt Trankell and Jan Ovesen; title: Political cults in East and Southeast Asia / Grant Evans; title: The minor part of the nation : politics of ethnicity in Laos / Ing-Britt Trankell; title: Democracy and power in a transitional one-party culture / Melanie Beresford and Irene Nørlund; title: Family planning in Vietnam: ethnography / Birgitta Hellmark Lindgren; title: Family planning in Vietnam: gender and personhood / Tine Gammeltoft; title: Resistance in the visual field: activist art in Indonesia in the 1990s / Astri Wright; title: Women's empty talk: gender and local politics in a Rejang village / Enid Nelson; title: Conflict, hierarchy, and democracy in Thai society / Stephen Sparkes; title: Dead headmen: histories and communities in the Southeast Asian hinterland / Hjörleifur Jónsson; title: Karen natural resources management and state polities / Anders Baltzer Jørgensen; title: Environmentalism as resistance in northeast Thailand: the village perspective / Amare Tegbaru; title: Environmentalism as resistance in northeast Thailand: the activist perspective / Rune Tjelland.