Joshua Barker

Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity Joshua Barker

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284) and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Prologue / Ulf Hannerz -- Introduction / Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, Johan Lindquist -- 1. The Philippines / Smita Lahiri, Deirdre De La Cruz -- Domestic Helper / Jose B. Capino -- Chinese Mestizo / Richard T. Chu -- Filipino Seaman / Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Public Manager / Anna Romina Guevarra -- Lawless Element / Orlando De Guzman -- Agriculturalist / Adam Lukasiewicz -- Bakla Returnee / Martin F. Manalansan -- Call Center Agent / Jan M. Padios -- Community Health Worker / Mai M. Taqueban -- Beauty Contestant / T. Ruanni F. Tupas -- 2. Vietnam / Erik Harms -- Petty Trader / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Prostitute / Christophe Robert -- Domestic Investor / Allison Truitt -- Enterprising Cadre / Ken Maclean -- Soviet-Trained Scientist / Christina Schwenkel -- Aspiring Overseas Student / Erik Harms -- Cham H'Roi Girl / Truong Huyen Chi -- Mountain Village Head / Christian C. Lentz -- Photo Retoucher / Nina Hien -- Cultural Expert / Lauren Meeker -- Vietnamese Transnational(s) / Ivan Small -- 3. Cambodia / Jonathan Padwe -- Cham Modernizer / Alberto Perez-Pereiro -- World Musician / Stephen Mamula -- Village Police Chief / Eve Zucker -- Broken Woman / Annuska Derks -- (Buddhist) Ascetic / Erikdavis -- Government Official / Jenna Grant -- 4. Laos / Jerome Whitington -- Miss Beer Lao / Holly High -- Mobile Phone Monk / Patrice Ladwig -- Mitigation Expert / Michael Dwyer -- Hippie, Interrupted / N. J. Enfield -- Beleaguered Village Leader / Jerome Whitington -- 5. Thailand / Jane M. Ferguson -- Grassroots Woman Leader / Leeray Costa, 110 -- Bangkok Slum Leader / Pilapa Esara, 113 -- Transnational Farmworker / Sudarat Musikawong -- Thai Airways Flight Attendant / Jane M. Ferguson -- Kickboxer / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Single Woman / Emily Zeamer -- Rural DJ / Julia Cassaniti -- Spirit Medium / Andrew Johnson -- Hmong-Thai Schoolgirl / Tracy Pilar Johnson -- 6. Indonesia / Joshua Barker, Johan Lindquist -- Multimedia Expert / Karen Strassler -- Muslim Television Preacher / James Hoesterey -- Spiritual Trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff -- Activist / Doreen Lee -- Ex-Combatant / Jesse Grayman -- NGO Worker / Aryo Danusiri -- Overseas Female Labor Migrant / Rachel Silvey -- Field Agent / Johan Lindquist -- Street Vendor / Sheri Gibbings -- Street Kid(s) / Chris Brown -- Mr. Hajj / Dadi Darmadi -- Rich Person / Joshua Barker -- Career Woman / Carla Jones -- 7. Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- National Leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann -- Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter -- Scholar-Musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Hang Tuah, Revisited / Rusaslina Idrus -- Supra-Ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee -- Political Satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng -- Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Returning Urbanite / Matthew Amster -- Timber Entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg -- 8. Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Malay Gangster / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir -- Bangladeshi Worker / Md Mizanur Rahman -- Woman Activist / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow -- The Peri-Urban Tenant / Loh Kah Seng -- The People's Filmmaker / Liew Kai Khiun -- Schoolteacher / Adeline Koh -- Social Entrepreneur / Erik Holmberg -- 9. Burma / Nicholas Farrelly -- Urban Dumsa / Mandy Sadan -- Journalist / Thomas Kean -- Political Prisoner / David Scott Mathieson -- Exile / David Gilbert, Violet Cho -- Sex Worker in Thailand / Ikuko Okamoto -- Tatmadaw Officer / Jacqueline Menager -- Korean Soap Opera Junkie / Aung Si -- Entrepreneur / Nicholas Farrelly -- Indie Musician / Aung Naing Thu (Pseudonym) -- Epilogue / Benedict Anderson -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Thematic Index. Publisher Marketing: We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of figures that populate the social and cultural imaginaries of contemporary Southeast Asia-some familiar only in specific places, others recognizable across the region and even globally. It puts forward a series of ethnographic portraits of figures that represent and give voice to something larger than themselves, offering a view into social life that is at once highly particular and general. They include the Muslim Television Preacher in Indonesia, Miss Beer Lao, the Rural DJ in Thailand, the Korean Soap Opera Junkie in Burma, the Filipino Seaman, and the Photo Retoucher in Vietnam. Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. An introduction outlines important social transformations in Southeast Asia and key theoretical and methodological innovations that result from ethnographic attention to the study of key figures. Each section begins with an introduction by a country editor followed by short essays offering vivid and intimate portraits set against the background of contemporary Southeast Asia. The result is a volume that combines scholarly rigor with a meaningful, up-to-date portrayal of a region of the world undergoing rapid change. A reference bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. Figures of Southeast Asia Modernity is an ideal teaching tool for introductory classes to Southeast Asia studies, anthropology, and geography. Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2013 (EAN 9780824836467, Hardcover) Choice 07/01/2013 (EAN 9780824837419, Paperback)