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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Päätekijä: Day, Tony (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press ©2002.
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvsrgmc
Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.