Bøger i Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory serien

An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people

An eye-opening reassessment of the meaning of revolutionary politics in socialist Vietnam from the Vietnamese perspective

Have the forces of capitalism facilitated the dissemination of Western-style gay and lesbian identities throughout the developing world as some theories of transnationalism suggest? Megan Sinnott engages these issues by examining the local culture and historical context of female same-sex eroticism and female masculinity in Thailand.

An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines

Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck - by the controversial Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung - is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuan.

Anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first ""liberated"" parts of upland country.