Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

Liana Chua is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Brunel University, West London, UK.Joanna Cook is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Nicholas Long is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology and a Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, UK.Lee Wilson is a Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Foreword: In Search of Power in Southeast Asia 1. Introduction: Power and Orientation in Southeast Asia 2. The Subject of Power in Southeast Asia 3. Power, Protection and Perfectibility: Aspiration and Materiality in Thailand 4. Sakti Reconsidered: Power and the Disenchantment of the World 5. Landscape, Power and Agency in Eastern Indonesia 6. The Symbolic Appropriation of War-Related Objects by the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia 7. The Anthropology of a Necessary Mistake: The Unsettled Dead and the Imagined State in Contemporary Singapore 8. Privateers, Politicians, Prowess and Power in Indonesia 9. Bureaucratic Migrants and the Potential of Prosperity in Upland Laos 10. Living on the Horizon of the Everlasting Present: Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia 11. Apparitions of Sapiocracy: Vietnam’s Emergent Welfare State and the Restless Dead of Thanh Ha 12. From the Power of Prayer to Prayer Power: On Religion and Revolt in the Modern Philippines