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Subject(s)

• Ethnology—Southeast Asia [Browse]
• Human geography—Southeast Asia [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Social conditions [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Social life and customs [Browse]

Summary note

This textbook explores Southeast Asia's modern peoples and their cultural ways and patterns of adaptation. It introduces the region's geography, languages, prehistory, and history, then delves into religion, ethnic complexity, food production, development, and tourism, and the changes that these evolving aspects of life have upon Southeast Asia's peoples and cultures.

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Language note

English

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Prehistory and Languages; 3; Early States, Civilization, and Colonialism; 4; Ethnic Complexity in Modern Southeast Asia; 5; Hunter-Gatherers, Real and Imagined; 6; Swidden Farmers; 7; Peasant Farmers and Their Transformations; 8; Indigenous Religion; 9; Religion, Society, and the State; 10; Religious Conversion on the Ethnic Margins; 11; Tourism and Local Peoples; 12; Development for Better or Worse; Notes; References and Suggested Reading; About the Author

ISBN

• 1-283-21363-X
• 9786613213631
• 0-7591-1864-7

OCLC

699510666

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