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Title

The frontiers of Southeast Asia and Pacific studies / edited by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao.

Author

Symposium on New Frontiers of Southeast Asian and Pacific Studies (2nd : 2005 : Taipei, Taiwan)

Publication

Taipei, Taiwan : Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Research Center for Humanities & Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Xiao, Xinhuang.
• Zhong yang yan jiu yuan. Ya Tai qu yu yan jiu zhuan ti zhong xin

Description

ix, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Southeast Asia > Social conditions > Congresses
• Pacific Area > Social conditions > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers originally presented at the second Symposium on New Frontiers of Southeast Asian and Pacific Studies, held Nov. 24-25, 2005 at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Taipei, Taiwan.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Chinese of Ho Chi Minh City, enriching or surviving? / Michel Dolinski -- Transnational marriage and social reproduction : comparing Vietnamese and European spouses in Taiwan / Chyong-Fang Ko and Han-Pi Chang -- Invisible warriors : the migrant Yunnanese women in northern Thailand / Wen-Chin Chang -- The Malaysian Chinese discourse of Islam : a study of the politics of cultural identity / Yuan-Lin Tsai -- The Catholic nuns in Vietnam : from the religious age to the ideological age / Alain Guillemin and Laurent Dartigues -- Transformed elements in the layout of Confucian temples in China, Vietnam and Taiwan / Lan-Shiang Huang -- Baphuon, a crucial foundation for Angkor Wat / Chih-Hung Yen -- Bhinneka tunggal ika : syncretism of religious music culture in Central Java, Indonesia / Tsung-Te Tsai -- Arduous and hazardous hajj for the Indonesian pilgrims / Laurence Husson -- Inventing tradition : building links to the past and rooting them in history / Fraņoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- "Making money" : objects, productions, and performances of shell money manufacture in Langalanga, Solomon Islands / Pei-yi guo -- Locality and extralocality in gamefishing contests, Raiatea, French Polynesia / Anne-Christine Tremon -- Boat symbolism, ritual and its political organization in eastern Indonesia / Simonne Pauwels -- Precious objects with a natural touch : endangered species and the predilection for the exotic / Paul van der Grijp.

ISBN

• 9789860082579 (pbk.)
• 986008257X (pbk.)
• 9789860082562
• 9860082561

OCLC

• 163823285
• SCSB-11758670

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Harvard Library