Fluid iron : state formation in Southeast Asia /
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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
©2002.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvsrgmc |
| 总结: | 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 Anderson, and other major scholars who have written on early, colonial, and modern Southeast Asian history and culture. Making use of the ideas of Weber, Marx, Foucault, and postmodern and postcolonial theory, Tony Day argues that culture must be restored to the study of Southeast Asian history so that the state and historical developments in the region can be returned to their own "alternative" historical contexts and trajectories. He employs a wide range of contemporary scholarship, as well as Southeast Asian literary and historical texts, inscriptions, and temples to explore the kinds of concepts and practices--kinship networks, cosmologies, gender identities, bureaucracies, rituals, violence and aesthetics--that have been used for centuries to build states |
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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (xii, 341 pages) |
| 格式: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824862541 0824862546 0585478848 9780585478845 9780824826178 0824826175 0824825071 9780824825072 |