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Volume 62 - November 2003

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Democracy, Development, and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand. By Daniel Arghiros. Democracy in Asia, no. 8. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. ix, 308 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Reflections on Philippine Culture and Society: Festschrift in Honor of William Henry Scott. Edited by Jesus T. Peralta. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2001. 233 pp. $26.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Other Pasts: Women, Gender, and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia. Edited by Barbara Watson Andaya. Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2000. xviii, 347 pp. $29.00 (paper).

The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia. Edited by Henri Chambert-Loir and Anthony Reid. Crows Nest, NSW: Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xxvi, 243 pp. $34.00 (cloth).

Theater and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Singapore. By William Peterson. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. xi, 287 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry, 1966–1999. Edited and translated by Harry Aveling. Southeast Asia Series, no. 105. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2001. xiv, 375 pp. $26.00 (paper).

Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia. By Michael L. Ross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 254 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. By Arthur J. Dommen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xiii, 1172 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Indonesia: The Long Oppression. By Geoff Simons. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xviii, 289 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Suharto: A Political Biography. By R. E. Elson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix, 389 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Gateway to the West: The Dutch Language in Colonial Indonesia, 1600–1950: A History of Language Policy. By Kees Groeneboer. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. xiv, 440 pp. $44.50 (cloth).

Institutions, Livelihoods, and the Environment: Change and Response in Mainland Southeast Asia. Compiled by Andrea Straub. With an introduction by Per Ronnas. Nordic Proceedings in Asian Studies, no. 6. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2002. 421 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines. By Heather L. Claussen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 253 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk Road (100 BC–1300 AD). By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h. Translated by Victoria Hobson. Handbook of Oriental Studies, sec. 3, vol. 13. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xxxv, 607 pp. €171.00/$199.00 (cloth).

Recalling Local Pasts: Autonomous History in Southeast Asia. Edited by Sunait Chutintaranond and Chris Baker. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002, viii, 208 pp. $18.50 (paper).

Islam and Ideology in the Emerging Indonesian State: The Persatuan Islam (PERSIS), 1923–1957. By Howard M. Federspiel. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xii, 365 pp. $114.00 (cloth).

Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailand. By Leslie Ann Jeffrey. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. xxviii, 195 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

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