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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
©2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvsrgmc |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Studying the State in Southeast Asia: Definitions, Problems, Approaches
- 2. Ties That (Un)Bind
- 3. Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and Invulnerability
- 4. Bureaucracy, Reason, and Ritual
- 5. Violence and Beauty
- Conclusion: Alternative States, Incongruous Region.