At the Edge of Mangrove Forest

Takamasa Osawa

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
• Although ethnic Malays make up the majority of the Malaysian population and are the ruling class of the nation, there are also indigenous peoples, inc... Lees meer

Grassroots Globalization

Hiromu Shimizu

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
• Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed ... Lees meer

Gender and Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 4
• Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial co... Lees meer

Myths and Realities

Yoshifumi Tamada

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 15
• This study challenges the prevailing view that Thailand's democratization process in the 1990s was led by the active middle class. It presents an alte... Lees meer

Laying the Tracks

Ichiro Kakizaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 10
• A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and Kyoto University Press, this economic history of the early development of Thailand's railways details t... Lees meer

Myths and Realities

Yoshifumi Tamada

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 15
• This study - now in paperback - traces the root of Thailand's current political instability back to the 1990s. It challenges the prevailing view that ... Lees meer

Searching for Vietnam

A Terry Rambo

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 9
• Volume 9 of the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia brings together the author's selected writings about Vietnam from the past forty years. The book opens with... Lees meer

Grassroots Globalization

Hiromu Shimizu

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
• Rapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed ... Lees meer

People on the Move

Ryoji Soda

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 13
• Based on participant observation and interviews in a village in Sarawak, Ryoji Soda examines outward migration from the village, the migrants' living ... Lees meer

The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia

Tuck-Po Lye, Wil De Jong, Ken-Ichi Abe

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 6
• Following an interdisciplinary approach to debates about the future of tropical forests in Southeast Asia, the authors - experts in their field - unra... Lees meer

East Asian Economies and New Regionalism

Shigeyuki Abe, Bhanupong Nidhipraba

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 16
• In the face of the financial crisis of East Asia in 1997, Japan successfully pressed forth the Miyazawa Plan and other efficient rescue packages while... Lees meer

Practical Buddhism Among the Thai-Lao

Yukio Hayashi

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 5
• Based on long-term fieldwork, Hayashi presents the local history of Thai-Lao religion and society, up to and including its present-day dynamics. Worki... Lees meer

Development Monks in Northeast Thailand

Pinit Lapthananon

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 22
• This study examines the role of Buddhist monks as development agents in rural Thailand. Through 20 years of field studies, and with a focus on Northea... Lees meer

Dislocating Nation-States

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 12
• As much of the world turns its attention to questions of the role and even survival of the nation-state formation in an increasingly globalized world,... Lees meer

After the Crisis

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 11
• After the Crisis looks at Southeast Asia-especially Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-after the Asian financial crisis. This eleventh ... Lees meer

Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam

Ito Masako

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 23
• Officially, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has a total of 54 ethnic groups, including the majority Kinh and 53 ethnic minority groups. This book ex... Lees meer

Living on the Periphery

Toshihiro Nobuta

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia
• Orang Asli is a generic name given to the indigenous people living on the Malay Peninsula. Using extensive ethnographic data, Living on the Periphery ... Lees meer

The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia

Ayako Masuhara

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 24
• Motivated by on-the-ground experiences during Indonesia's period of political turmoil in the early 2000s following the collapse of the Suharto regime,... Lees meer

Ecological Destruction, Health and Development

Hisao Furukawa, Mitsuaki Nishibuchi, Yasuyuki Kono, Yoshihiro Kaida

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 8
• Uniquely interdisciplinary in orientation, the book joins experts in ecology, agriculture, medicine and development studies to produce this large-scal... Lees meer

Farming with Fire and Water

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 18
• This volume offers the first detailed description of 'composite swiddening, ' a traditional Southeast Asian upland agricultural system that combines s... Lees meer

Bangsa and Umma

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 21
• Having experienced a large-scale reorganization of social order over the past decade, people of the Malay world have struggled to position themselves.... Lees meer

One Malay Village

Yoshihiro Tsubouchi

• Paperback | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 2
• In a society recognized for its multi-racial constitution, the relative homogeneity of Kelantan has inspired numerous researchers to seek the "essence... Lees meer

Re-Thinking Economic Development

Koichi Fujita

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 19
• This study investigates the impact of agrarian development programs on rural class structure in Bangladesh, and it highlights how the local administra... Lees meer

Between Hills and Plains

Hayami Yoko

• Hardcover | Engels | Kyoto Area Studies on Asia | nr. 7
• In this study, Hayami suggests that the Karen in northwestern Thailand are located "betwixt and between" the peripheries and the mainstream of the mod... Lees meer