Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Research Articles

At the Edges of States: Dynamics of State Formation in the Indonesian Borderlands. By Eilenberg Michael. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2012. xvi, 355 pp. €29.90 (paper). - Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia. Edited by Thomas Gibson and Kenneth Sillander. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2011. ix, 310 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

At the Edges of States: Dynamics of State Formation in the Indonesian Borderlands. By Eilenberg Michael. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2012. xvi, 355 pp. €29.90 (paper). - Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia. Edited by Thomas Gibson and Kenneth Sillander. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2011. ix, 310 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda – By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx

Science Education and Student Diversity: Synthesis and Research Agenda – By Okhee Lee and Aurolyn Luykx

BOOK REVIEWS

The Developing EconomiesVolume 44, Issue 4 p. 532-539 BOOK REVIEWS First published: 27 October 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.2006.00027.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Books reviewed: Understanding Globalization, Employment and Poverty Reduction edited by Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xvi + 389 pp. Seeds of Knowledge: The Beginning of Integrated Pest Management in Java by Yunita Triwardani Winarto, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2004, xxi + 429 pp. Volume44, Issue4December 2006Pages 532-539 RelatedInformation

Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade Among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia. By Ann Maxwell Hill. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1998. 178 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade Among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia. By Ann Maxwell Hill. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1998. 178 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective:Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective.

Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. Cornelia Ann Kammerer and Nicola Tannenbaum. eds. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 45. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1996. 263 pp.

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community. Edited by Ben Kiernan. New Haven Conn.: Monograph Series No. 41, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1993. 335 pp.

Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community. Edited by Ben Kiernan. New Haven Conn.: Monograph Series No. 41, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1993. 335 pp. - Volume 53 Issue 3

A.Booth, W. J.O’Malley and A.Weidemann, eds, Indonesian economic history in the Dutch colonial era (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. Pp. xiv + 369. Tables, figures. Paperback $US17.00, hardcover $US30.00.)

Australian Economic History ReviewVolume 34, Issue 1 p. 100-102 Book Review A. Booth, W. J. O’Malley and A. Weidemann, eds, Indonesian economic history in the Dutch colonial era ( New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. Pp. xiv + 369. Tables, figures. Paperback $US17.00, hardcover $US30.00.) Pierre Van Der Eng, Pierre Van Der Eng The Australian National UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Pierre Van Der Eng, Pierre Van Der Eng The Australian National UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 1994 https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.341br21AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume34, Issue1March 1994Pages 100-102 RelatedInformation

Analytical Perspectives on Shan Agriculture and Village Economics. By E. Paul Durrenberger and Nicola Tannenbaum. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series 37, 1990. x, 112 pp.

Analytical Perspectives on Shan Agriculture and Village Economics. By E. Paul Durrenberger and Nicola Tannenbaum. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series 37, 1990. x, 112 pp.

Indonesian Economic History in the Dutch Colonial Era. Edited by Anne Booth, W. J. O'Malley and Anna Weidemann. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. 369 pp.

Indonesian Economic History in the Dutch Colonial Era. Edited by Anne Booth, W. J. O'Malley and Anna Weidemann. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. 369 pp.

Indonesian Economic History in the Dutch Colonial Era. Edited by Anne Booth, W.J. O'Malley and Anna Weidemann. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. Pp. xiii, 369. Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography.

Indonesian Economic History in the Dutch Colonial Era. Edited by Anne Booth, W.J. O'Malley and Anna Weidemann. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1990. Pp. xiii, 369. Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography. - Volume 23 Issue 1

Suehiro Akira: Capital accumulation in Thailand 1855–1985. xvii, 427 pp. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1989. $34.66. - Kevin Hewison: Bankers and bureaucrats: capital and the role of the state in Thailand. (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series, 34.) xv, 320 pp. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, [1989

Suehiro Akira: Capital accumulation in Thailand 1855–1985. xvii, 427 pp. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1989. $34.66. - Kevin Hewison: Bankers and bureaucrats: capital and the role of the state in Thailand. (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series, 34.) xv, 320 pp. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, [1989

The Philippines - Philippine Colonial Democracy. Edited by Ruby R. Paredes. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. Pp. 166. Illustrations, Index, Bibliography.

The Philippines - Philippine Colonial Democracy. Edited by Ruby R. Paredes. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. Pp. 166. Illustrations, Index, Bibliography.

Bankers and Bureaucrats: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand. By Kevin Hewison. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series No. 34, 1989. xiv, 320 pp.

Bankers and Bureaucrats: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand. By Kevin Hewison. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series No. 34, 1989. xiv, 320 pp.

Manila, 1900–1941: Social Change in a Late Colonial Metropolis. By Daniel F. Doeppers. Monograph Series No. 27. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1984. xii, 194 pp. $14.00 (paper).

Manila, 1900–1941: Social Change in a Late Colonial Metropolis. By Daniel F. Doeppers. Monograph Series No. 27. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1984. xii, 194 pp. $14.00 (paper). - Volume 49 Issue 3

Documents on Pol Pot's Kampuchea

David P. Chandler, Ben Kiernan, and Chanthou Boua. Editors and Translators. Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976–1977. Monograph Series No. 33. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988. Pp. xviii, 346. Tables, map, photograph.

The Fate of the Peasantry: Premature ‘Transition to Socialism’ in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. By Andrew Vickerman. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1986. Pp. xvi, 373. Figures, Tables, Appendix Tables, Abbreviations, Notes, Vietnam Bibliography, Supplementary Bibliography.

The Fate of the Peasantry: Premature ‘Transition to Socialism’ in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. By Andrew Vickerman. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1986. Pp. xvi, 373. Figures, Tables, Appendix Tables, Abbreviations, Notes, Vietnam Bibliography, Supplementary Bibliography. - Volume 20 Issue 1

Andrew Vickerman: The fate of the peasantry: premature ‘transition to socialism’ in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series, no. 28.) xvi, 372 pp. New Haven: Yale Center for International Area Studies, 1986.

Andrew Vickerman: The fate of the peasantry: premature ‘transition to socialism’ in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series, no. 28.) xvi, 372 pp. New Haven: Yale Center for International Area Studies, 1986.

Incestuous Twins and the House Societies of Insular Southeast Asia

In "A Study of Customs Pertaining to Twins in Bali," Jane Belo (1970) addresses a puzzling question. When Balinese commoners gave birth to twins1 (in the 1930s), the parents and twins were banished from the village for a period, their house was dismantled, and a ritual of purification of the village was performed after the untoward event. The birth of twins to high nobles, by contrast, was greeted with joy. The reason for the difference in reception of twins between highand lower-status people rested on the belief "that the twins had had contact amounting to marital intimacy before birth, in the womb of the mother. For some this intimacy was a good and very portentous thing, and the high caste princes and priests claimed that the boy was born like a god, that he brought his wife with him out of the mother's womb" (Belo 1970:3). By this logic, commoner twins, far from the gods, were incestuous: "It is incestuous for opposite-sex twins to occupy a womb; but the higher the status, the less abominable the incest, since for the gods incest is proper" (Boon 1977:138). Twin-birth beliefs form a condensed icon for whole marriage systems in insular Southeast Asia's Indic States, where high nobles strive to marry close (at best, first cousins) while close marriage is abhorred or was prohibited to lower people. Incest or its compromise act, close marriage, in short, is a statement about status; among commoners, Geertz has remarked (1982), incest is less a sin than a status mistake. The "text" of incest prohibitions has been read in a variety of ways. Some commentators explicate the local meanings of particular societies' taboos, often implying that no persuasive general theory of "incest" can be put forward (e.g., Needham 1971:29). Persuasive or not, general theories continue to be generated by others who, admitting the prohibited categories vary, are impressed with the universality of a (variable) prohibition. Throughout this article I tack between a localist's concern with cultural meanings and social and political action, and a universalist's (especially structuralist's) comparative scope-but not beyond Oceania, and with no theory claiming to explain "the" incest taboo. Using "incest" as the rhetorical motivator, I use the occasion of this essay to recast the conceptualization of groupings in insular Southeast Asia, to explore the dynamics of marriage in the preferentially endogamous "cognatic" societies of insular

Revolution and its Aftermath in Kampuchea: Eight Essays. Edited by David P. Chandler and Ben Kiernan. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series No. 25. Pp. x, 319. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Notes on Contributors.

Revolution and its Aftermath in Kampuchea: Eight Essays. Edited by David P. Chandler and Ben Kiernan. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series No. 25. Pp. x, 319. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Notes on Contributors.

Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. Edited by Lorraine Gesick. Foreword by Clifford Geertz. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1983. Pp. x, 243.

Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. Edited by Lorraine Gesick. Foreword by Clifford Geertz. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1983. Pp. x, 243. - Volume 16 Issue 2