Ethnic and religious identities and integration in Southeast Asia / edited by Ooi Keat Gin and Volker Grabowsky
Imprint
Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 2017
Edition
First edition
Descript
xiv, 506 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
SUMMARY
"This stimulating volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Through the lens of identity, the authors explore and appraise the level of integration within the political borders of Southeast Asian nation-states and within the region as a whole. Case studies include the Bru population in Laos-Vietnam, hill tribe populations without citizenship in northern Thailand, the Lua also in northern Thailand, the Pakistani community in Penang, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Karen Leke religious movement in Thailand/Myanmar, political Islam in Indonesia, Sufi Muslims in Thailand, pluralism in Penang, the Preah Vihear dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, and hero cult worship in northern Thailand. Historians and social anthropologists variously tackle these issues of identity and integration within the kaleidoscope of ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures that make up Southeast Asia. The result is a rich, multifaceted volume that is of great benefit to students and specialists in unraveling the complexities of national and transnational dynamics in the region." -- Back cover
CONTENT
Part 1 : Ethnicity and identities -- Politics of cross-border living in Southern Laos-Central Vietnam -- Khon Rai Sanchat: resident aliens and the paradox of national integration in Thailand -- Resettled Lua Communities in Northen Thailand: between ethnic disintegration and national integration -- Language, culture, and identity: a case study of diasporic ethnic Pakistanis in multilingual Penang -- Par 2 : Religion and identities -- Transmutations of the Rohingya movement in the post-2012 Rakhine state crisis -- The Karen Leke religious movement in the Thailand-Myanmar borderland: deterritorialization and diversification -- The refreshing paradoxes of Indonesian political Islam: considerations on the Islamist exception -- Thailand's Muslim kaleidoscope from the Central plains to the far South: fresh perspective from the Sufi margins -- Part 3 : Integration and identities -- Plural and separate: Penang's colonial experience, 1786-1941 -- Heritage and nationalism in the Preah Vihear dispute -- Regional identities and national integration: hero cults in Lan Na
SUBJECT
Gunthorp
Karen
Ethnology -- Southeast Asia
Identification (Religion)
Cultural pluralism -- Southeast Asia
ethnicity
regional integration
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