{"title":"Myanmar. Painting Myanmar's transition Edited by Ian Holliday and Aung Kaung Myat Hongkong: Hongkong University Press 2021. Pp. 189. Plates, Bibliography.","authors":"Htoo Lwin Myo","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"825 - 827"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44296812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A ruinous infatuation’: Nutmeg cultivation in early Penang","authors":"Christina Skott","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000856","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1786 and the 1860s, Penang Island was transformed from a lush tropical island into a British colony covered in ordered plantations. As a consequence of Britain's temporary possession of the fabled Spice Islands, nutmeg emerged as the most important crop, but after decades of experimentation and uncertainty, its cultivation ultimately failed. Although the struggle for nutmeg to become commercially viable was heavily dependent on global price fluctuations and official support, this article focuses on local factors such as shortages of labour, the specific skills of the island's various ethnic groups and reliance on indigenous agricultural techniques. The story of nutmeg cultivation in Penang can then be situated within a wider historiography concerned with the transmission of botanical knowledge and plant transfer, as well as the ecological impact of colonial agriculture.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"664 - 685"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45041943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical and cultural negotiations in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Beyond the utopia of ‘unity in diversity’","authors":"Y. Lukito","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000844","url":null,"abstract":"There have been some changes to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, a popular ethnographic theme park built nearly five decades ago during President Suharto's New Order era to present a utopian version of ‘Unity in Diversity’ (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika), Indonesia's state motto. This article discusses the changes and continuities manifested in the present-day slightly expanded Taman Mini. Unlike earlier scholarship focusing on sociopolitical and symbolic aspects of the theme park, this article argues that Taman Mini's mainly domestic visitors understand and interact with its walk-in models of traditional architecture and ‘highlights’ of Indonesian culture and history in ways that often differ from the official script which presents cultural diversity through sanitised ethnographic displays. Moving beyond its official, touristic and commercial intentions and design, Taman Mini has become a lively place for everyday cultural production, engagement and negotiation for its many Indonesian visitors.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"762 - 785"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42511303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malaysia. Elite Malay polygamy: Wives, wealth and woes in Malaysia By Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. Pp. 277. Bibliography, Index.","authors":"Nurul Huda Mohd Razif","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000704","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"819 - 821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44355870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vietnam. Rubber and the making of Vietnam: An ecological history, 1897–1975 By Michitake Aso Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 426 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"Megan A. Black","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"831 - 833"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42991021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singapore. The men who lost Singapore, 1938–1942 By Ronald McCrum Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. Pp. 240. Maps, Images, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"K. Hack","doi":"10.1017/S002246342200073X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246342200073X","url":null,"abstract":"each. Further, many of the same arguments presented in the book about the limitations of coping strategies are found in the complementary, critical literature on sustainable livelihoods. Second, at times, it wasn’t clear that the evidence presented in the study provided sufficient warrant for some of the claims made. I refer to claims that the quality of life in rural Burma is worsening (p. 37), that democratic processes create conditions favourable to economic development (p. 17), that small-scale informal activity does not fuel economic growth (p. 180), and so on. These quibbles do not detract from the core contributions of this monograph, however. Further and sadly, there can be no quibble with the book’s ominously prescient concluding remarks: ‘Because many of the forces at work in the country run counter to democratic norms and nurture conditions favourable to the return of the military rule, ... there can be no guarantee that substantive democratic outcomes will emerge in Myanmar’ (p. 202).","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"829 - 831"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46995114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myanmar. Interpreting Myanmar: A decade of analysis By Andrew Selth Canberra: ANU Press, 2020. Pp. 515. Index.","authors":"Anthony Ware","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"608 - 609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42209702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asia. Ruling before the law: The politics of legal regimes in China and Indonesia By William Hurst Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. Bibliography, Index.","authors":"G. Radics","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"585 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia on screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis: 1945–1998 Edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker and Mary Ainslie Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"Gerald Sim","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000571","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"592 - 594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42954016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vietnam. The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese perspectives on nation building Edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 207. Notes, Bibliography and Index.","authors":"D. Biggs","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"611 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44496945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}