Abstracts of the 2001 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 22–25, 2001, Chicago, IL
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Pressed Into Service: Authoritarianism and the Malaysian Media, Daniel A. Slater
Lese Majesty and Press Freedom in Thailand, David Streckfuss
Vestiges of Authoritarian Rule: The Philippine and Indonesian Press, Mary McCoy
Session 6. Vietnam and the State in the 1950s: Arguments, Visions, Implementations
Marxism, Dissent, and the State: Implications of Tran Duc Thao, 1945–1958, Shawn F. McHale
"First Comes the Land Reform Team, then Heaven": State-Village Relations During Land Reform in the DRV (1953–1957), Martin Grossheim
Nguyen Manh Ha: A Voice for a Reunified Vietnam, Thi Liên Trân
Session 26. Taking Democracy Seriously: The Role of Political Parties in Southeast Asia
Democracy and Social Welfare in Thailand, Erik Kuhonta
Presidential Connection: Parties and Party Systems in the Philippines, Yuko Kasuya
Party Systems, Political Institutions and Policy: Policy Making in Thailand and the Philippines, Allen Hicken
The Role of Political Parties in Building Effective Institutions: Indonesia in 1955 and 1999, Kimberly Niles
Session 27. Competing Knowledges in Post-Revolutionary Indochina
Mediumship Versus the State: Conflicting Epistemologies in Vietnam, Barley Norton
Buddha Power and State Power in Cambodia, William Collins
"We Were Younger Then, And It Was Different": Vietnamese Factory Women Reconsider Their Past, Mila Rosenthal
Creating Knowledge of the Border: The Meanings of the Mekong River Friendship Bridge in Laos, Takeko Iinuma
Session 48. Contesting Islamic Political Visions in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
Indonesian Jihad: Yogyakarta Muslim Responses to the Call for Holy War, Robert William Hefner
Islamism in Contemporary Indonesian Politics: The Shari’ah Utopianism of Partai Keadilan, Mark Woodward
Kyai, President, or Wali: Contesting Islamic Notions of Leadership, Ronald Lukens-Bull
Political Affiliation and Religious Commitment in South Sulawesi, Thomas P. Gibson
Session 49. Competing Realities in Post-Revolutionary Indochina
Do Spirits of the Dead Exist? Divergent Ontologies of the Dead in Northern Vietnam, Shaun K. Malarney
Abortion Conventionalized, Abortion Ritualized: Competing Perceptions of Fetal Life in Contemporary Vietnam, Tine Gammeltoft
Do People Still Dream of Kings? Discourses of Monarchy in Laos, Grant Evans
(Re-)Constituting Hierarchy and Authority in Contemporary Cambodia, Lindsay French
Session 69. The Royal Aura: Signifying Power in Southeast Asia
Imprecation and Blessing: An Interpretation of Epigraphical Data, Prapod Assavavirulhakarn
God Kings of Angkor, Roxanna M. Brown
The Mural Paintings of Wat Somanat Vihan in Bangkok, John Listopad
Mechanical Mediation and the Royal Subject, Caverlee Cary
Ethics and Politics in the Art of Thai Boxing, Peter Vail
Session 70. Contramodernities in Southeast Asian Literature, Drama, and Film
Revisiting and Reusing The Malay Annals and The Hikayat Hang Tuah, Soak Koon Wong
Wise Spirits and the Limits of Modernity in Suwarsih Djojopuspito’s Siluman Karangkobar, Julie Shackford-Bradley
De/Constructing Modernity: The Deployment of Tradition in Contemporary Southeast Asian Fiction and ASEAN’s "Realizing Rama," Teri Shaffer Yamada
All Things Bawdy and Sexual: The Recuperation of Adat in Contemporary Malay Films, Gaik Cheng Khoo
Session 90. Village Modern: Transforming Tradition in Rural Northern Vietnam
"Village Affairs": The Making of Communal Identity Through the Revivification of Rituals in a Northern Vietnamese Village, Chi Huyen Truong
Praying for Profit: The Cult of the Lady of the Treasury, Hong Ly Le
Manure and Modernity: Villagers and Ethographers in Dong Ky Village, Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Session 91. Individual Papers: Strategies of Opposition in Southeast Asia
Reinventing Adat: Peasant, State and Timber Industry in Indonesia: A Case Study from East Kalimantan, Mariko Urano
The Politics of Representation: The Assembly of the Poor and the Use of Media Space to Challenge the Hegemonic Developmental Discourse in Thailand, Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat
Singapore’s Middle Realm: The ‘Nanyang Shang Bao’ and the Jinan Incident of 1928, David L. Kenley
Heritage as a Human Right: A New Style and Language of Civil and Community Activism in Penang, Malaysia, Judith Nagata
Between a Song and a Priy: Tracking Cambodia’s History Through Its Forest, Penny Edwards
Ways of the World: Harm and Suffering in Khmer Ethical Narratives, Anne R. Hansen
Constructing Narratives of Order: Religious Building and Moral Chaos, John Marston
The Buddh Damnay and the Meaning of Suffering, Judy Ledgerwood
Session 112. Global Forces and Social Change in Southeast Asia
The Development and Persistence of Illegal Labor Migration from Thailand, Teresa Sobieszczyk
The Globalization of Public Health Policy in Southeast Asia, Jeremy Shiffman
Challenges to NGOs’ Domination of the Indonesian Labor Movement: Implications for Labor Representation in the "Era of Globalization," Michele Ford
Working the Middle Ground: NGOs as Mediators of the National Response to AIDS in Northern Thailand, Vincent Del Casino and Rachel M. Safman
Conflict Over Land and the Dynamics of Violence in South Sumatra, Elizabeth F. Collins
Placing Claims to Land: The Grounds of Religious and Ethnic Conflict at Lake Lindu, Central Sulawesi, Gregory Acciaioli
Religious Tensions and the Flood of Blood in Central Sulawesi, Lorraine V. Aragon
The Suharto Legacy and Religious Violence in Maluku, Jacques Bertrand
Individual Stories and Social Commitment: The Case of Vietnamese Intellectuals in 1920s Saigon, Philippe Peycam
Conflicting Self-Presentations in the Memoirs of To Hoai, Kim Ninh
State Tropes and Personal Tales: Telling and Writing Female Traders’ Lives in Vietnam, Ann Marie Leshkowich
"Remaking One’s Life" (Lam Lai Cuoc Doi): Biographical Construction as a Means of Survival in Rural Vietnam, Narquis Barak
Session 153. Comparative Colonial Jurisprudence in Southeast Asia
Mixing and Matching: Legal Transplantation in Southeast Asia, Andrew J. Harding
The Post-Colonial Loss of Royal Malay Land Rights, Keng-Fong Pang
Descent of the Nation: Policing the Family in Siam, Tamara Loos
Collective Culture: The Dynamics of Differentiation in Black Thai Villages, Thomas Sikor
Bringing the Farm Back in: The Rural Development Debate and Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Mekong Rice Bowl, Stephen Graw
Wealth and Poverty in Vietnam: A Sociological Perspective, Tuong Lai
Poverty, Household Structure, and Demography: An Analysis of Their Sociocultural Dimensions in Ho Chi Minh City, Hy Van Luong
Session 174. Buddhism in Burma and Beyond: New Studies, New Perspectives
Burma’s Age of Buddhist Enlightenment: The Mass Lay Meditation Movement and the Formation of Society as the State, Ingrid Jordt
Thathana Than-shin: Ideal Representations and Historical Accounts of Sasana Purification in Burmese Thathanawin Literature, Patrick Pranke
Burmese Buddhist Conceptualisations of "Good" Government and "Harmonious" Development: On the Relevance of Mangala Sutta and byama-so tayà (Social Meditation) for the Process of Reconciliation, Gustaaf Hourman
Calendar Reform in 19th-Century Burma: King Bodawpaya and the Role of Maitreya in Burmese Kingship, Maitrii Aung-Thwin
Representations of Moral Authority and the Modern Burmese State, Juliane Schober
Session 175. Individual Papers: Women and Labor in Transitional Economics in Southeast Asia
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? Labor and the Politics of Semiconductors in the Philippines, Steven McKay
Women Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transitional Economy, Pamela Chieu Nguyen
Do Iban Women Really Need Men? Subsistence Agriculture and Labor Migration in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Reed L. Wadley
Community Economic Development in Ifugao, Philippines: Women, Microfinance and the Cultural Politics of Social Change, B. Lynne Milgram
Political Faultlines in Indonesia: Atavistic Movements in Riau, Aceh and Beyond, Vivienne Wee
From Muslim Filipino to Philippine Muslim: One Man’s Embrace of the Bangsamoro, Thomas M. McKenna
Ethnic Conflict in Burma: Karen Ethno-Nationalism, Flight and Secular Modernization in Refugee Camps in Thailand, Ananda Rajah
Why Might Constructed Nationalist and Ethnic Ideologies Come into Confrontation with Each Other? David Brown
The "Dike Debate" in Late Imperial and French Colonial Vietnam, S. Andrew Smith
The Professor and the President: Wesley Fishel and Ngo Dinh Diem, 1950–1963, Edward Miller
Translating the Untranslatable: Sundanese Illuminations of Scriptural Arabic in West Java, Indonesia, Benjamin G. Zimmer
The Role of Local and Transnational Political Narratives in Shaping Political and Normative Change in Malaysia and Singapore, Surain Subramaniam
Islamization in Malaysia: Negotiating the Race for Political Legitimacy, Patricia Martinez
The Erasure of "Race": The Case of Thai Studies, Jan R. Weisman
Session 208. Spirited Politics: Public Life and Religion in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Relocating Reciprocity: Politics and the Transformation of Thai Funerals, Thamora Fishel
Buddhist Monks and Their Political Role in Burmese Society, Yin Hlaing Kyaw
The Sixth Religion? Confucianism and the Negotiation of Indonesian-Chinese Identity under the Pancasila State, Andrew Abalahin
The Modernist Vision from Below: Malaysian Hinduism and the "Way of Prayers," Andrew Willford
The Political Economy of Decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand, Paul Hutchcroft
Civil Society and Local Power Arrangements, Francisco Magno
Generation Shift and Local Elite Reproduction, Julio Teehankee
Building Local Democracies in the Philippines: The Impact of Decentralization on Democratization, Gary Hawes