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Anarchic solidarity : autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia

Title
Anarchic solidarity : autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia / Thomas Gibson, Kenneth Sillander, editors.
Publication
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Gibson, Thomas, 1956-
  • Sillander, Kenneth.
Description
ix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity. Their members make their livings as nomadic hunter-gatherers, shifting cultivators, sea nomads, and peasants embedded in market economies. While political anarchy and radical equality appear in many societies as utopian ideals, these societies provide examples of actually existing, viable forms of "anarchy." This book documents the mechanisms that enable these societies to maintain their life-ways and suggests some moral and political lessons that those who appreciate them might apply to their own societies"--Back cover.
Series Statement
Monograph 60 / Yale Southeast Asia Studies
Uniform Title
Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) ; no. 60.
Subject
  • Anarchism > Social aspects > Southeast Asia
  • Solidarity > Southeast Asia
  • Autonomy > Social aspects > Southeast Asia
  • Equality > Social aspects > Southeast Asia
  • Fellowship > Social aspects > Southeast Asia
  • Social structure > Southeast Asia
  • Equality > Social aspects
  • Manners and customs
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Social structure
  • Solidarity
  • Egalitarismus
  • Gesellschaft
  • Anarchie
  • Sozialstruktur
  • Ethnology > Southeast Asia
  • Social structure > Southeast Asia
  • Solidarity > Southeast Asia
  • Sociala strukturer > Sydostasien
  • Southeast Asia > Social life and customs
  • Southeast Asia > Social conditions
  • Southeast Asia > Politics and government
  • Southeast Asia
  • Südostasien
  • Southeast Asia > Social life and customs
  • Southeast Asia > Social conditions
  • Southeast Asia > Economic conditions
  • Southeast Asia > Politics and government
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A theoretical overview of anarchic solidarity / Charles Macdonald -- Sources of sociality in a cosmological frame : Chewong, Peninsular Malaysia / Signe Howell -- Cooperative autonomy : social solidarity among the Batek of Malaysia / Kirk Endicott -- Childhood, familiarity and social life among East Semai / Robert Dentan -- Kinship and fellowship among the Palawan / Charles Macdonald -- Kinship and the dialectics of autonomy and solidarity among the Bentian of Borneo / Kenneth Sillander -- Egalitarianism and ranking in the Malay world / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Encapsulation and solidarity in northeast Borneo : Punan of the Malinau area / Lars Kaskija -- Mending nets of relatedness : words and gifts as sources of solidarity in a Sama Dilaut fishing community / Clifford Sather -- Nicknames at work and at play : sociality and social cohesion among the Cuyonon of the Philippines / James Eder -- Egalitarian islands in a predatory sea / Thomas Gibson.
ISBN
  • 9780938692942
  • 0938692941
  • 9780938692959
  • 093869295X
LCCN
2011925069
OCLC
  • ocn707825585
  • 707825585
  • SCSB-14424383
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library