Centering the Margin

Alexander Horstmann teaches Social Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the University of Münster and is a Fellow of the Study Group Islamic Culture – Modern Society at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen. Among his major publications include Class Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in South Thailand, Transaction, 2002.

• PrefaceFigures and TablesIntroduction: Centering the Margin in Southeast AsiaAlexander Horstmann and Reed L. WadleyCENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDSChapter 1. “Once were Burmese Shans”: Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern ThailandNiti PawakapanChapter 2. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in MakassarWilliam CummingsChapter 3. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos–Thailand BorderGuido SprengerCENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDSChapter 4. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna TaisSara DavisChapter 5. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, IndonesiaCynthia ChouChapter 6. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and TawauRiwanto TirtosudarmoCENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDSChapter 7. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand–Malaysian FrontierAlexander HorstmannChapter 8. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai BorderlandMarc AskewChapter 9. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of BorneoMatthew H. AmsterNotes on ContributorsIndex

“…an excellent collection that should be read by all scholars of Southeast Asia, and that should provoke more thought and research on the people whose lives and practicescontinue to connect Southeast Asian nation-states.”  ·  JRAI“The literature on borders and borderlands, the state, globalization and ethnic minorities, is now huge, but the editors of this book do a good job of summarizing most of it in their introduction...This book… will swiftly become a key reading in university courses dealing with borderlands and Southeast Asia.”  ·  Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde“…each of the studies is well worth making available and the set of them offers a useful addition to the literature on borders and migration.”  ·  Anthropos