TY  - GEN
T1  - Fluid iron : state formation in Southeast Asia
A1  - Day, Tony
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm53481975
AB  - 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
OP  - 341
CN  - JQ750.A58 D393 2002
SN  - 9780824862541
SN  - 0824862546
SN  - 0585478848
SN  - 9780585478845
SN  - 9780824826178
SN  - 0824826175
SN  - 0824825071
SN  - 9780824825072
KW  - Southeast Asia : Politics and government.
KW  - State, The.
KW  - État.
KW  - Asie du Sud-Est : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : Southeast Asia.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - State, The
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Staatsvorming.
KW  - 15.75 history of Asia.
KW  - Politik
KW  - Staat
KW  - Südostasien
KW  - Geschiedenis (vorm)
ER  -