Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA
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- Chinese Cemeteries and the Impact of
Urbanization and Economic Development, Rebecca B. Aiken
- New Sacred Lands: Christian Revival and
Religious Retreat in Sarawak, Matthew Amster
- Spatializing Social and Religious Change in
Islamic Java, Ronald Lukens-Bull
- Contested Notions of the Sacred Center in
Indonesia, Mark R. Woodward
- Composition and Recomposition of Rural
Households in the Red River Delta, Nelly Krowolski and Nguyen Tung
- Never-Married Women in Rural North Vietnam:
Two Case Studies, Daniele Belanger and Khuat Thu Hong
- Virginity and the Irony of Cultural Change:
Exploring Female Sexuality in Urban Northern Vietnam, Tine Gammeltoft
- "Men of Prowess", Temples, and
Early States: De-Politicizing Southeast Asia’s Past, Richard A. O’Connor
- Multiple Sovereignty on Qing China’s
Southeast Asian Frontier, C. Patterson Giersch
- Lords of the Sunset and the Ruler on Whose
Empire the Sun Never Set: The Shan States and British Rule, Nicola Tannenbaum
- Making Housewives in a Javanese Kampung:
State Formation as Everyday Practice, Janice Newberry
- Who is Co-opting Whom? Historical
Perspectives on the "Ideal Family" Policy in Indonesia, Jennifer Bright
- Speaking and Moving: Political Women in
Early 20th-Century Minangkabau, Jeffrey Hadler
- Inter-racial Wage Differentials and Sarekat
Islam in the Early 20th-Century Dutch East Indies: Was There a Connection?, Siddharth
Chandra
- Electoral Protest and Control Over Land in
Post-Soeharto Indonesia, Douglas Kammen
- Regional Political Protest and Reform in
Post-Soeharto Indonesia, Michael Malley
- Origin and Diffusion of the Shadow Play: The
Buddhist Connection, Thomas Cooper
- A Marriage of the Media: Central Javanese
Shadow Puppet Theater in the Age of Television, Jan Mrázek
- "Entrusting the Scriptures": The
Rejection of History in a Cirebonese Wayang Kulit Play, Matthew Isaac Cohen
- Idolatry and Modernity in the Lowland
Philippines, Fenella Cannell
- From "Wangsa" to
"Bangsa": Subaltern Voices and Personal Ambivalences in Colonial Bali (1930s), Henk
Schulte Nordholt
- Feminism, Islam, and the Alternatives of
Modernity, Suzanne A. Brenner
- The Cassowary Will not be Photographed:
"The Primitive," "The Japanese," and The Elusive "Sacred"
(Aru, Eastern Indonesia), Patricia Spyer
- Dividing the Islands: The Dutch Spice
Monopoly as a Catalyst of Indigenous Religious Contrasts and Resistance in 17th-Century
Maluku, Hendrik E. Niemeijer
- Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia’s Threat
Perceptions in the Indies’ Outer Islands, 1870–1910, Eric Tagliacozzo
- Savage Imagery: Government and Mass Media
Depictions of the Forest Tobelo of Indonesia, Christopher R. Duncan
- Text and Temple: The Memorialization of
Angkor Vat, Ashley Thompson
- Constructing Angkor in Cambodge, Penny
Edwards
- The Fascination for Angkor: Reimag(in)ing
and Reordering the Cambodian Aesthetic and Political World, Panivong Norindr
- Stolen Statues, Lindsay French
- The Debate over the Electoral System in
Comparative Perspective, Dwight Y. King
- Reform and Regional Politics in Indonesia, I
Ketut Erawan
- Indonesian Reformasi in a Global Context, Annette
Marie Clear
- Making a Male God and Female Careers: The
Salvation Army and Gender in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Lorraine V. Aragon
- Abstemious Protestants and Swinging
Catholics: The Differential Impact of Christianity on the Traditional Gender System of
Akha Highlanders of Thailand, Cornelia Ann Kammerer
- Negotiating Worlds: Gender and Spirit
Mediumship in Khmer Refugee Experience, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
- Gender Crossing and State Law in
Contemporary Malaysia, Michael Peletz
- Tasks and Masks: "Caliban"
Revisited, or Has the Subaltern Spoken?, Ray W. Chandrasekara
- The Vietnamese Catholics During the War of
Independence (1945–1954) Between the Colonial Reconquest and the Communist
Resistance, Thi Liên Tran
- Crime and Punishment in Mid-18th-Century
Batavia: Slavery and Forced Labor under the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Kerry Ward
- "To Counter the Terror of Uncertain
Signs": Mythologizing Vietnam in Interiors, Jennifer Way
- Colonialism and the Collaborationist Agenda:
Pham Quynh, France and the Invention of a Neo-Confucian Vietnam, Sarah Womack
- The "Javanization" of Bali:
Creating Cultural Identities, Helen Creese
- The Aceh-Johor Contest to Determine
Malayness in the Seventeenth Century, Leonard Y. Andaya
- Changing Perceptions of Ethnicity in
Northern Sumatra, Uli Kozok
- The Sakai of Riau: A "Non-Malay"
Malay Identity in Sumatra, Nathan Porath
- Greening from the Grassroots: The Politics
of Implementation in World Bank-Funded Natural Resource Management Projects, John
Gershman
- NGOs, Power, and Contradiction: Implications
of NGO Practices in a Cultural Community, Ifugao Province, the Philippines, Lynn
Kwiatkowski
- ASEAN Tourism Development: Local
Perspectives on the Samal Island Tourism Estate Project, Sally Ann Ness
- Developing Dreams: An Outside Take on
Economic Revery in the Visayas, Jean-Paul Dumont
- Claire Holt: A Dancer’s Vision, Deena
Burton
- "A crystal sound, aerial and purely
sensuous": Colin McPhee, Interwar Musical Modernism, Exotic Hedonism, and Bali, Marc
Perlman
- The Archaelogist Willem F. Stutterheim:
Protagonist for Classical Javanese Culture, Cecelia Levin
- Explaining Violence: Cultural Politics of
Headhunting in Borneo, Emily Harwell
- Sama Senses of Place and Conservationist
Nomadology: Some Meanings of Movement, Celia Lowe
- Power on the Periphery: Local Leaders and
Access to Resources among Akha in Thailand and China, Janet Sturgeon
- The Politics of Development in Post-Colonial
Malaysia, Amity Doolittle
- French and Vietnamese Civilizing Missions in
the Mekong Delta, David Biggs
- A Medical Mission: The Vietnamese Quest for
Smallpox Vaccine, Michele Thompson
- Malaria Control, Land Occupation, and
Scientific Developments in Vietnam, Annick Guénel
- The Development of Health Care in Vietnam:
In the Shadow of the Colonial Hospital (1860–1939), Laurence Monnais-Rosselot
- Thai Non-Governmental Organizations and
Development: Embeddedness in Local Power Structures, Henry D. Delcore
- Women and Labour Structure in Malaysian
Economic Development, Mako Yoshimura
- Women’s Craft Co-operatives in Ifugao,
Upland Philippines: Experiencing Development, B. Lynne Milgram
- Filipino NGOs and Transnational Struggles
for Domestic Workers’ Rights, Kathy Nadeau
- Social Policy and Low-Income Working Mothers
in Thailand: Shifts in the Welfare Mix, 1940–the late 1990s, Pattamaporn
Busapathumrong
- How Batak Weavers Realize the Challenge of
Designing a Future with Thread, Sandra Niessen
- Saving Face: The Economy of Femininity in a
Central Javanese City, Carla Jones
- Big Families in a Small World: How Female
Entrepreneurs Use International Kin Networks to Shape Vietnam’s National Costume, Ann
Marie Leshkowich
- Diaspora Fashion Entrepreneurs in Global
Markets: Emergent National and Transnational Cultural and Commercial Landscapes, Parminder
Bhachu
- Political Institutions in Motion: The
Implications of Electoral Reform for Social Justice in Indonesia, Kimberly J. Niles
- Negotiating National Policy: The Role of
Local State Authorities in the Implementation of Agricultural Reforms in Vietnam, Thomas
Sikor
- The Social and Political Foundations of
Macroeconomic (In)stability in Indonesia, Smita Singh
- Making New Malays: Class and Gender in
Ethnic Imaginings, Eric Thompson
- Buddhist versus Medical Care for AIDS in
Northern Thailand, Margery Lazarus
- From Buddhist Stories to Modern Art: Thai
Temple Murals in Wimbledon, Sandra Cate
- Buddhist Doctrine of Non-Violence in Burma:
Differing Pedagogies, Diverse Effects, Eugenia Kaw
- Movable Peace: Engaging the Transnational in
Cambodia’s Dhammayietra, Kathryn Poethig
- Contesting State Ideologies in
Nineteenth-Century Sarawak: Semangat, Hikayat Panglima Nikosa and the Sarawak Gazette, John
Walker
- Toppling the Pillars to the Beat of a
Tong-Tong: Eurasian Memory Work in the Netherlands, 1957–1961, Andrew Goss
- Public Spaces/Public Disgraces?: Crowds and
the State in Vietnam, Mandy Thomas
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