Chapter Two. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Figures and Tables viii
5. Introduction. Centering the Margin in Southeast Asia 1
6. CENTERING THE MARGIN I: CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
7. Chapter One. “Once were Burmese Shans”: Reinventing Ethnic Identity in Northwestern Thailand 27
8. Chapter Two. Would-Be Centers: The Texture of Historical Discourse in Makassar 53
9. Chapter Three. Political Periphery, Cosmological Center: The Reproduction of Rmeet Sociocosmic Order and the Laos–Thailand Border 67
10. CENTERING THE MARGIN II: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
11. Chapter Four. Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Globalization and the Sipsongpanna Tais 87
12. Chapter Five. Borders and Multiple Realities: The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia 111
13. Chapter Six. In the Margin of a Borderland: The Florenese Community between Nunukan and Tawau 135
14. CENTERING THE MARGIN III: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN BORDERLANDS
15. Chapter Seven. Deconstructing Citizenship from the Border: Dual Ethnic Minorities and Local Reworking of Citizenship at the Thailand–Malaysian Frontier 155
16. Chapter Eight. Sex and the Sacred: Sojourners and Visitors in the Making of the Southern Thai Borderland 177
17. Chapter Nine. Narrating the Border: Perspectives from the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo 207
18. Notes on Contributors 229
19. Index 233