Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over
This collection of personal narratives comes from anthropologists. Whether or not they are themselves from southeast Asia or ever experienced the privations of war, social upheaval, and invasion, they
The Living House was the first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of the house within the social and symbolic worlds of Southeast Asian peoples. A pioneering title that has become a classi
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. The first book of its kind
As news accounts report almost daily, the social, political, and economic atmosphere of Southeast Asia makes it one of the most dynamic and quickly developing regions of the world. Southeast Asian Liv
Both drawing from and contributing to the newly expanded literature on social memory, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies in social memory from a wide range of historica
A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as paintings of the cosmopolitan trade town and of tranquil rural scenes, the views present
