Globalization in Southeast Asia : : Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives / / ed. by J. S. Eades, Shinji Yamashita.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alam, Bachtiar,; Aoki, Eriko,; Eades, J.S.,; Fee, Lian Kwen,; Fukuoka, Shota,; Ganjanapan, Anan,; Geriya, Wayan I,; Kagami, Haruya,; Kiong, Tong Chee,; Sekimoto, Teruo,; Shimizu, Hiromu,; Tokoro, Ikuya,; Yamashita, Shinji,; Zialcita, Fernando N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Eades, J. S.,; Yamashita, Shinji,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Anthropologies ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Names and Transliteration -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: “Glocalizing” Southeast Asia -- Part I Southeast Asia in Globalizing Perspectives -- Chapter 2 Is Southeast Asia a Jigsaw Puzzle or a Collage? -- Chapter 3 Cultural Knowledge, Nation-States, and the Limits of Globalization in Southeast Asia -- Part II The Local, the National, and the Transnational in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 4 How to Live a Local Life: Balinese Responses to National Integration in Contemporary Indonesia -- Chapter 5 The Impact of Tourism in Three Tourist Villages in Bali -- Chapter 6 Gamelan Degung: Traditional Music in Contemporary West Java -- Chapter 7 Batik as a Commodity and a Cultural Object -- Chapter 8 Globalization and the Dynamics of Culture in Thailand -- Part III The Periphery of Nation States -- Chapter 9 “Center” and “Periphery” in Oral Historiography in a Peripheral Area in Southeast Indonesia -- Chapter 10 Transformation of Shamanic Rituals among the Sama of Tabawan Island, Sulu Archipelago, Southern Philippines -- Chapter 11 Diaspora and Ethnic Awakening: The Formation of Cultural Consciousness among the Ayta of Mt. Pinatubo after the Eruption of 1991 -- Chapter 12 Cultural and Religious Identities in Okinawa Today: A Case Study of Seventh-Day Adventist Proselytization in a Northern Okinawan Village -- Chapter 13 Ethnographies of the Vanishing? Global Images and Local Realities among the Aborigines of Taiwan, 1600–2000 -- Index