South East Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 18, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

2010 International Seminar and Screening of Thai Cinema : proceedings, 16-18 April, 2010, Shanghai, China / [edited by Raksarn Wiwatsinudom … [et al.].]. A gentleman’s word : the legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose in Southeast Asia / Nilanjana Sengupta. An end to a war : a Japanese soldier’s experience of the 1945 death marches of North Borneo / written by Ueno Itsuyoshi, translated by Mika Reilly, edited by Richard W.

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South East Asia and Pacific – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 1, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

A history of Sino-Malaysian interactions / by Zhou Weimin, Tang Lingling ; adapted & ed. by See Hoon Peow ; translated by Tan Yau Chong. Belgian tourists in Burma, Siam, Vietnam and Cambodia (1897 & 1900) / Captain Georges ‘Puck’ Chaudoir, Mr. and Mrs. Émile Jottrand ; translated and with introductions by Walter E. J. Tips. Borneo transformed : agricultural expansion on the Southeast Asian frontier / edited by Rodolphe

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South East Asia and Pacific – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

Beyond combat : women and gender in the Vietnam War era / Heather Marie Stur. Early interactions between South and Southeast Asia : reflections on cross-cultural exchange / edited by Pierre-Yves Manguin, A. Mani, Geoff Wade. Earth dance / Oka Rusmini ; translated by Rani Amboyo and Thomas M. Hunter ; edited by Laura Noszlopy with an afterword by Pamella Allen. Engaging the spirit world : popular beliefs and practices

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South East Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 20, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

Abhaya : Burma’s fearlessness / text and photogr.: James Mackay ; [ed. by Narisa Chakra]. Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s struggle for democracy / Bertil Lintner. Borobudur : majestic, mysterious, magnificent / John N. Miksic … [et al.]. Contemporary Southeast Asian performance : transnational perspectives / edited by Laura Noszlopy and Matthew Isaac Cohen. Diagnosing the Indonesian economy : toward inclusive and green growth / edited by H. Hill,

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South East Asia and Pacific – Jan-May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 14, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

Books The South Indian Muslim community and the evolution of the Jawi Peranakan in Penang up to 1948 / Helen Fujimoto. Du ngoạn trong âm nhạc truŷèn th́ông Vîẹt Nam / Tr̀ân Văn Khê.  Hát xoan : dân ca l̃ê nghi–phong tục / Tú Ngọc. Hát xoan, Hát ghẹo, ̉A đào, Ch̀âu văn : tuỷên chọn nh̃ưng làn địêu hay và đ̣ăc śăc / Túân Giang, sưu t̀âm, tuỷên chọn.

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Anthropology and Sociology – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation / Richard Sennett. Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique / edited by Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and its pre-colonial and colonial genealogies / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen. Ethnographic practice in the present / edited by Marit Melhuus [et al.]. Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / by Haim

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South East Asia and Pacific – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

Journals Asia Pacific World – Vol.1 (2010) onwards. Books Poverty and global recession in Southeast Asia / edited by Aris Ananta and Richard Barichello.  Governance in Pacific Asia : political economy and development from Japan to Burma / Peter Ferdinand. Film in contemporary Southeast Asia / edited by David C. L. Lim and Hiroyuki Yamamoto. Khmer bronzes : new interpretations of the past / Emma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford. Manuel

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