Fluid Iron : : State Formation in Southeast Asia / / Tony Day.
Fluid Iron is the first extended treatment of state formation in Southeast Asia from early to contemporary times and the first book-length analysis of Western historical and ethnographic writing on the region. It includes critical assessments of the work of Clifford Geertz, O.W. Wolters, Benedict An...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Studying the State in Southeast Asia: Definitions, Problems, Approaches
- 2. Ties That (Un)Bind
- 3. Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and Invulnerability
- 4. Bureaucracy, Reason, and Ritual
- 5. Violence and Beauty
- Conclusion: Alternative States, Incongruous Region
- References
- Index
- About the Author