Rivers Tent in Southeast Asia: Ethnicity, Relative Status, and Empathy in Fieldwork

Chapters in this book

1. I-X I
2. Introduction 1
3. Political Functionaries in Rural Malaysia: Leaders or Middlemen? 5
4. Rivers Tent in Southeast Asia: Ethnicity, Relative Status, and Empathy in Fieldwork 21
5. The Administration of the Aboriginal Tribes of Western Malaysia 43
6. Ethnics and Ethics in Southeast Asia 71
7. On Knowing Who You Are: Intraethnic Distinctions Among the Akha of Northern Thailand 83
8. Structure, Function, and Ideology of a Karen Funeral in Northern Thailand 95
9. Ethnic Outmarriage Rates in Singapore: The Influence of Traditional Sociocultural Organization 111
10. Vietnamese Women: Their Roles and Their Options 127
11. Social and Cultural Change of Japanese and Chinese in Thailand 147
12. Monastic Education, Social Mobility, and Village Structure in Cambodia 155
13. Yao (Iu Mien) Supernaturalism, Language, and Ethnicity 171
14. Malay Migration to Kuala Lumpur City: Individual Adaptation to the City 199
15. Tourism, Culture Change, and Culture Conservation in Bali 237
16. Matrilineal Societies in Southeast Asia: Examples from Highland Vietnam 249
17. Some Filipino (Cebuano) Social Values and Attitudes Viewed in Relation to Development (A Cebuano Looks at Utang-Na-Loob and Hiyâ) 257
18. The Economic Importance of Children in a Javanese Village 269
19. Problems in Comparison of Kinship Systems in Island Southeast Asia 291
20. Cultural Anthropology in the Philippines—1900-1983: Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects 311
21. Biographical Notes 341
22. Index of Names 347
23. Index of Subjects 353