Abstracts of the 1998 AAS Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 1998, Washington, DC
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- Networking and Ecology Monk Seminars in Thailand, Susan
M. Darlington
- Buddhism and Social Activism among Boston-area Khmer
Americans, Nancy Smith-Hefner
- Contextualizing Aung San Suu Kyi’s Socially Engaged
Buddhism, Juliane Schober
- Alienation and Engagement: The Biographical Process in
Buddhist Activism, Christopher S. Queen
- The Soviet Union and the Vietnamese Communists,
1954–1960, Mari Olsen
- Would Mao Intervene?: Beijing, Hanoi, and the American
Escalation of the Vietnam War, 1964–65, Chen Jian
- "Revisionism" in Vietnam, Judy Stowe
- The International Dimensions of the Vietnam Crisis of
1967–68, Ralph Smith
- Postcoloniality and the Literatures of Modern Indonesia, Anthony
Day and Keith Foulcher
- Hybridity, Authenticity, and Representations of the
Feminine in Modern Indonesian Literature, Barbara
Hatley
- Followers into Leaders: Writing Community Against the
Narrative of Capital, Virginia Hooker
- Love in a Time of Colonialism: Interracial Romance,
Modernity, and Early Indonesian Fiction, Paul Tickell
- The Literati Voice in Early Modern Vietnam, John K.
Whitmore
- Delineating Female Space: Seclusion and the State in
Pre-Modern Island Southeast Asia, Barbara Watson
Andaya
- Maria Clara and the Market in Nineteenth-Century
Philippines, Norman Owen
- Liberty and the People in Thai Jurisprudence, Tamara
Loos
- Burma’s Regional Relations: From Bandung to ASEAN, Ye
Myint
- Burma’s Economic Development During Half a Century, Naing
Oo
- Socio-Economic Foundations of Military Domination in
Burma, Zaw Oo
- The State-Centric Analysis of Urban Bias in the
Transitions to and from Socialism, Ardeth Maung
- Ngamuk in Java: Themes of Order and Chaos in
Mental Health and Political Discourses, Byron Good
- Islam, Medicine and Modernity in Java, Leslie K. Dwyer
- Scientific Imaginaries and the Culture of the Clinic:
Explorations from Yogyakarta, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
- The Anxiety of Authenticity: Asli and Hybrid
Medical Practices, Steve Ferzacca
- Islamic Healing, Drug Addiction and Modernity in Java, Subandi
- The Growth of the "Psychological" in Java,
Indonesia, Kevin Browne
- Deviant Divas: Refashioning Gender in Colonial Cambodia, Penny
Edwards
- Guardian Angels: Women as Defenders of State, Race, and
Nation in Postcolonial Cambodia, Kate Frieson
- Cyberspace Seraphs: Khmer Gender Ideals in Transnational
Context, Judy Ledgerwood
- The Wilted Flower: Gender Symbolism in the Modern
Cambodian Novel, Vaddey Mom
- Bones of Contention: Relics and the Interpretation of
Philippine History, Ambeth R. Ocampo
- Embodying Translation: The Castilian Origins of
Nationalism, Vicente Rafael
- The Hagiographic Imprint on the Modern Philippine Nation,
Mia Zamora
- Filipino Subjects and National History-Making, Neferti
Tadiar
- Intimate Contention: Influencing the Home and Family in
West Sumatra (1880–1927), Jeffrey Hadler
- National Churches and Regional Music, Philip Yampolsky
- Shifting Languages in Java, J. Joseph Errington
- Raiding the Market: Money, Violence, and the Imagined
Community in Biak, Irian Jaya, Danilyn Rutherford
- Human Ecological Perspectives on Upland Development in
Northern Vietnam, Le Trong Cuc
- Development Policies and Programs in the Northern Uplands
of Vietnam, Cao Duc Phat
- The Crisis in Agriculture in the Northern Uplands of
Vietnam, Dao The Tuan
- Indigenous Knowledge and the Improvement of Mountain
Agriculture in Northern Vietnam, Hoang Xuan Ty
- Race, Nationalism, and the Philippine Chinese, Caroline
Sy Hau
- National Belonging and the Filipino Middle Class Diaspora
in the United States, Benito Vergara, Jr.
- Through a Glass Darkly: Philippine Nationalism and
American Solidarity, Vincent Boudreau
- Filipino Marxism and the "National Question", Patricio
N. Abinales
- Pho Phai and Faux Phais: The Market for Fakes in Vietnam
and the Appropriation of a National Symbol, Nora
Taylor
- Picking a Painting for the Minister of Religion, Kenneth
M. George
- Whose Emblems? The Currency of Indonesian Regional
Textiles, Lorraine Aragon
- Exhibiting Terror, Lindsay French
- The Social Security of Elderly Vietnamese: Legacies,
Current Realities, and Future Challenges, Daniel
Goodkind
- Regional Differences in Household Structure and Family
Formation Patterns in Vietnam, Daniele Belanger
- Reproductive Identity and Desire Among Unmarried Women in
Northern Vietnam, Harriet Phinney
- The Economic Value of Children in Vietnam, John Luke
Gallup
- National Intelligence Estimates on Vietnam, Harold P.
Ford
- The CIA and the Diem Regime, Thomas Ahern
- Religious Identity and Renewal in Khmer Buddhism, Anne
Hansen
- What is the Religion of the Khmers?, Elizabeth Guthrie
- What is the Religion of the Khmers?, Serge Thion
- Freedom of Expression: A Study of Spirit Possession in
Contemporary Cambodia, Ashley Thompson
- The Spirit Cult of Khleang Moeung in Long Beach,
California, Teri Schaffer Yamada
- The Centrifugal Political Effects of Economic Reform in
Indonesia, Michael Malley
- Unity in Disunity?: Ethnic and Religious Politics in
Indonesia, Jacques Bertrand
- The Dynamics of NU-State Interaction at the Local and
National Levels, Suzaina Kadir
- Bureaucratic Politics in the Indonesian Public Health
Sector, Jeremy Shiffman
- "Because They Want Nice Things": Prostitution,
Consumerism, and Culture in Thailand, Leslie Ann
Jeffrey
- Gender, Trade, and Smallness in Ho Chi Minh City’s
Ben Thanh Market, Ann Marie Leshkowich
- Secret Freedom in the City: Women’s Wage Work and
Agency in Calcutta, Sirpa Tenhunen
- Squabbling in the Family? The Strategies of
Malaysia’s Sisters in Islam, Patricia A. Martinez
- Muslihat, Ilmu Kebal and Female Political Agency in Aceh,
Indonesia, Jacqueline Siapno
- Creating a Common Past: The Grand Valley Dani as
Indonesians, Karl G. Heider
- Subversive Sejarah: National Identity and Local
Memory in Ambon, Juliet Lee
- "Conserving Javanese Culture" in the Age of
Mass Media Consumption, Ward Keeler
- The Folder in the Drawer of the Sky Blue Lemari: A
Toba Batak Carver’s Secrets, Andrew Causey
- Asian Immigrant Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of
Self-Definition: Tran Dieu Hang and Bharati Mukherjee, Qui-Phiet
Tran
- Writing Interculturality: Pham Van Ky’s Des
femmes assises ça et là, Karl Ashoka Britto
- Transgressive Humor in Recent Vietnamese American
Fiction: Andrew Lam and Khoi Luu, Renny Christopher
- Vietnamese Literary Production in the United States, in
General and in Particular: Vo Phien’s Nguyen Ven
and Thuong Vuong-Riddick’s Two Shores/Deux Rives,
Dan Duffy
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