TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia
AU - Jonsson, Hjorleifur R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The University of Western Australia.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The five essays in this collection examine ideas of power in Southeast Asia and reflect on foundational studies by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson on Thailand and Indonesia. The essays by Hanks and Anderson crossed anthropology and area studies. The cases explore the relevance of their work in Southeast Asia and comparatively, in relation to academic consensus and debate, social entanglements, political divergence, negotiation, pluralism, and reflexivity. The essays suggest that ‘the state’ is a problematic notion, and that the common conflation of society and the state hides a range of tensions between the rival principles of hierarchy and community. We examine power in relation to socialism, hierarchy, indigeneity, Buddhism, marginalisation, and nonstate identities, through fieldwork encounters as much as through historical and regional contrasts and comparisons on the ethnic frontiers of the modern nations of Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand.
AB - The five essays in this collection examine ideas of power in Southeast Asia and reflect on foundational studies by Lucien Hanks and Benedict Anderson on Thailand and Indonesia. The essays by Hanks and Anderson crossed anthropology and area studies. The cases explore the relevance of their work in Southeast Asia and comparatively, in relation to academic consensus and debate, social entanglements, political divergence, negotiation, pluralism, and reflexivity. The essays suggest that ‘the state’ is a problematic notion, and that the common conflation of society and the state hides a range of tensions between the rival principles of hierarchy and community. We examine power in relation to socialism, hierarchy, indigeneity, Buddhism, marginalisation, and nonstate identities, through fieldwork encounters as much as through historical and regional contrasts and comparisons on the ethnic frontiers of the modern nations of Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand.
KW - Notions of power
KW - Southeast Asia
KW - community
KW - comparisons
KW - hierarchy
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U2 - 10.1080/00664677.2022.2052016
DO - 10.1080/00664677.2022.2052016
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85126672079
SN - 0066-4677
VL - 32
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Anthropological Forum
JF - Anthropological Forum
IS - 1
ER -