New Trends in the Anthropology of Southeast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kleinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Strategic Groups ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis article addresses the question, is there such an entity as a separate field of the anthropology of Southeast Asia? Has the crisis in anthropology in the 1970s and ‘the literary turn’ of the 1980s led to a renewed interest in area studies? A number of topics that originally belonged to the field of anthropology will be discussed: religion, the culture of social class and strategic groups, family and gender relations, developments in tourism, leisure and consumption, material culture, media and performance, and the growing importance of the rapid urbanization in Southeast Asia and its relationship with globalization and localization.

Book reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 161 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-396
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Economic History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Comparative Study

Peter Borschberg (ed.), Iberians in the Singapore-Melaka area and adjacent regions (16th to 18th century) (Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied) Katharine L. Wiegele, Investing in miracles; El Shaddai and the transformation of popular Catholicism in the Philippines (Greg Bankoff) Jean Gelman Taylor, Indonesia; Peoples and histories (Peter Boomgaard) Clive Moore, New Guinea; Crossing boundaries and history (Harold Brookfield) Nathan Porath, When the bird flies; Shamanic therapy and the maintenance of worldly boundaries among an indigenous people of Riau (Sumatra) (Cynthia Chou and Martin Platt) Paul van der Grijp, Identity and development; Tongan culture, agriculture, and the perenniality of the gift (H.J.M. Claessen) Tim Bunnell, Malaysia, modernity and the multimedia super corridor; A critical geography of intelligent landscapes (Ben Derudder) L. Fontijne, Guardians of the land in Kelimado; Louis Fontijne’s study of a colonial district in eastern Indonesia (Maribeth Erb) Karl-Heinz Golzio, Geschichte Kambodschas; Das Land der Khmer von Angkor bis zur Gegenwart (Volker Grabowsky) Emmanuel Poisson, Mandarins et subalternes au nord du Viêt Nam; Une bureaucracie à l’épreuve (1820-1918) (Martin Grossheim) Generale Missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Volume 10, 1737-1743 (Gerrit Knaap) Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin (eds), International migration in Southeast Asia (Santo Koesoebjono) Vladimir Braginsky, The comparative study of traditional Asian literatures; From reflective traditionalism to neo-traditionalism (G.L. Koster) Fiona Kerlogue (ed.), Performing objects; Museums, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia (Jennifer Lindsay) Th.C. van der Meij, Puspakrema; A Javanese romance from Lombok (Julian Millie) Robyn Maxwell, Sari to sarong; Five hundred years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange -- Jasleen Dhamija, Woven magic; The affinity between Indian and Indonesian textiles (Sandra Niessen) David Bourchier and Vedi R. Hadiz (eds), Indonesian politics and society; A reader (Seije Slager) Howard Dick, Vincent J.H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie (eds), The emergence of a national economy; An economic history of Indonesia, 1800-2000 (Heather Sutherland) Roderich Ptak, China, the Portuguese and the Nanyang; Oceans and routes, regions and trade (c. 1000-1600) (Heather Sutherland) Stephen C. Headley, Durga’s Mosque; Cosmology, conversion and community in Central Javanese Islam (Robert Wessing)

The Politics of Provisioning: Food and Gender at Fort San Juan De Joara, 1566–1568

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin A. Beck ◽  
Gayle J. Fritz ◽  
Heather A. Lapham ◽  
David G. Moore ◽  
Christopher B. Rodning
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
American Women ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
And Gender

AbstractBeginning with Kathleen Deagan’s description of the St. Augustine Pattern, in which domestic relations between Spanish men and Native American women contributed to a pattern of mestizaje in Spanish colonies, gender has assumed a central role in archaeological perspectives on colonial encounters. This is especially true for those encounters that accompanied colonialism in the Americas during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Gender relations were essential to the creation of new cultural identities during this time, as indigenous communities encountered immigrant, European settler groups often comprised mostly or entirely of adult men. Yet as significant as gender is for understanding how an encounter unfolded in time and space, it can be a challenge to identify and evaluate the archaeological correlates of such relations through material culture patterns. In this article, we use the related domains of food and foodways, particularly in the social context of provisioning, to evaluate how gender relations changed during the occupation of Fort San Juan de Joara (1566–1568), located at the Berry site in western North Carolina. Our research contributes to reappraisals of the St. Augustine Pattern, which posits well-defined roles for Native American women and Spanish men, by likewise situating the agency of Native American men.

Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840–1908)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Whitney Walton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
National Library ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
And Gender

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.

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