Centering the Margin : : Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands / / ed. by Alexander Horstmann, Reed L. Wadley.

• MitwirkendeR: Amster, Matthew H.,; Askew, Marc,; Chou, Cynthia,; Cummings, William,; Davis, Sara,; Horstmann, Alexander,; Pawakapan, Niti,; Sprenger, Guido,; Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto,; Wadley, Reed L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Horstmann, Alexander,; Wadley, Reed L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Anthropologies ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia. Choosing an actor approach, the individual chapters in this volume capture the narratives of minorities, migrants and refugees who inhabit and cross borders as part of their everyday life. They show that people are not only constrained by borders; the crossing of borders also opens up new options of agency. Making active use of these, border-crossing actors construct their own live projects on the border in multiple ways against the original intention of the nation-state. Based on their intimate knowledge of the interaction of communities, anthropologists from Europe, the USA, Japan and Southeast Asia provide a vivid picture of the effects of state policies at the borders on these communities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction. Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia -- CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS -- Chapter One. “Once were Burmese Shans”: Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand -- Chapter Two. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar -- Chapter Three. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos–Thailand Border -- CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS -- Chapter Four. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais -- Chapter Five. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia -- Chapter Six. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau -- CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS -- Chapter Seven. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand–Malaysian Frontier -- Chapter Eight. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland -- Chapter Nine. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo -- Notes on Contributors -- Index