TY - BOOK AU - Horstmann, Alexander ed. AU - Wadley , Reed L ed. TI - Centering, the margin: agency and narrative in Southeast Asian borderlands SN - 1845450191 U1 - 305.9069180959 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn books KW - Minoranze etniche -- Asia sud-orientale -- Congressi N1 - Preface Figures and Tables Introduction: Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia Alexander Horstmann and Reed L. Wadley CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS Chapter 1. "Once were Burmese Shans": Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand Niti Pawakapan Chapter 2. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar William Cummings Chapter 3. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos-Thailand Border Guido Sprenger CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS Chapter 4. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais Sara Davis Chapter 5. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia Cynthia Chou Chapter 6. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau Riwanto Tirtosudarmo CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS Chapter 7. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand-Malaysian Frontier Alexander Horstmann Chapter 8. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland Marc Askew Chapter 9. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo Matthew H. Amster Notes on Contributors Index ER -