1、Everyda -y Life in SoutheA -st a -siA - Edited by Ka -thleen M. a -da -ms a -nd Ka -thleen a -. Gillogly INDIANA A -nthropology A -siA - Everyda -y Life in SoutheA -st a -siA - a -da -ms a -nd Gillogly “Wonderfully comprehensive yet vividly well-written. . . . If I were a -sked to recommend one book
2、 tha -t ca -ptures the cultura -l lega -cies a -nd emergent complexity of toda -ys Southea -st a -sia -, this gra -cious a -nd dazzling book would be it.” Robe Rt W. Hefne R, b oston Unive Rsity “With this volume, introducing students to the study of Southea -st a -sia - ha -s just become ea -sier.
3、a -da -ms a -nd Gillogly ha -ve a -ssembled a - wide-ra -nging collection of a -ccessible a -nd enga -ging a -rticles a -bout the region a -ll of which promise to work well in the cla -ss- room. I look forwa -rd to using it!” n ancy e be RHa Rdt, Knox c ollege Cover photographs by Kathleen A. Gillog
4、ly, except fourth from top and background image by Kathleen M. Adams This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societ- ies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these en
5、gaging essays describe personhood and identity, fam- ily and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and re- covery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experiences of ordinary people. Most of
6、the essays are original to this volume, while a few are widely taught classics. All were chosen for their timeliness and interest, and are ideally suited for the classroom. Contributors Kathleen M. Adams Gene Ammarell Lorraine V . Aragon Nir Avieli Sandra Cate Andrew Causey John Clammer Harold C. Co
7、nklin Susan M. Darlington Robert Knox Dentan Juli Edo Michele Ford Kathleen A. Gillogly Lucien M. Hanks, Jr. Kat Hleen M. a da Ms is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Kat Hleen a . g illo gly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. INDIAN
8、AUniversity PressBloomington as an incubation zone for militant Muslims; as a natural disasterprone “Ring of Fire”; or as a re- gion that generates despotic leaders, refugees, and labor migrants. Alter- natively, travel media and some tourist blogs present more “seductive” vi- sions of South east As
9、ia: as an exotic tropical vacation zone, surfers heaven, bargain shopping Mecca, sex tourism destination, homeland of lovely “mail order” brides and delectable spicy cuisine. There are some truths here, but these are partial truths. There is far more to South east Asia than these ex- treme and often
10、 problematic stereotypes belie.This volume represents our efforts to convey some of the richness and complexity of South east Asia via explorations of the daily lives and expe- riences of diverse people living in this region. In approaching contributors for this volume, we requested essays featuring
11、 the everyday practices of or- dinary people rather than purely theoretical pieces. Highlighting the minu- tiae of everyday lifedressing, conversing, schooling, seeking livelihoods, rituals, recreational activities, and so forthoffers a provocative lens for re- flecting on more abstract cultural pri
12、nciples and transformations. Peoples ordinary everyday activities, even when apparently distinct from other di- mensions of life, are invariably tethered to broader social, economic, and 2 / Introduction po liti cal processes. Our “everyday life” approach is grounded in a now es- tablished tradition
13、 of scholarship, dating back to Henri Fernand Braudels 1949 treatise on the long- term social history of the Mediterranean. In his now classic work, Braudel illustrated that the everyday practices and tech- niques of ordinary people, the farmers, fishers, and potters, the migrations of flocks of she
14、ep, and the tides that carried sailing vessels, were all impor- tant to understanding the longer- term flows of history in the Mediterranean. A number of celebrated anthropologists of South east Asia similarly focused on the rhythms and microdramas of everyday life with an eye to reveal- ing broader
15、 cultural themes. Many of Clifford Geertzs classic writings on Indonesia embrace this approach (for instance, see his “Notes on the Bali- nese Cockfight” or “Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example” Geertz 1973), and his work has had a profound effect on anthropology as a whole. 1Likewise, many
16、 of anthropologist Harold Conklins early writings on the Philippines embody the “everyday life” approach embraced in this volume. One of his articles, which follows the daily activities of a young girl from a shifting agricultural society in the late 1950s, is included in this volume as it gives us
17、insights into a way of life that is increasingly rare in contempo- rary South east Asia. what is south east asia? rose, unicorn, sponge, Jigsaw puzzle, or collage? South east Asia is generally held to be composed of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, East Timor, Indonesia, Si
18、ngapore, Ma- laysia, and Brunei. This is a region of considerable geographic, social, linguis - tic, and cultural diversity, so much so that an earlier generation of South east Asia scholars wondered whether the region could be considered a natural “unit” akin to a rose (re: Shakespeares famous line
19、 in Romeo and Juliet, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”), or if the region was not an invented fiction without any intrinsic unifying cultural characteristicsa kind of geographical unicorn (Emmerson 1984, Waddell 1972). Still others depicted South east Asia as a bord
20、er zone: a spongelike re- gion that absorbed the cultural and religious influences of more powerful neighboring areas (i.e., China, India). An example of this sort of analysis is Coedess The Indianized States of South east Asia (1968), which traces the in- fluence of Hinduism and later Buddhism in t
21、he rise of early states such as Angkor (Cambodia) and Srivijaya (Sumatra). More recently, the Filipino scholar Fernando Zialcita underscored that the concept “South east Asia” has been continuously evolving and is gradually cohering (albeit in differ- ent sorts of ways) in the minds of South east Asians. He points out that al- though South east Asians themselves did not have a common term for their realm until Western names for the region began circulating in the twenti-
