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Enchanted Modernities
Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
Micah F. Morton

“With Enchanted Modernities, Morton provides us with the language we need to make sense of the fascinating global Indigenous moment we are witnessing today.”
—Oona Thommes Paredes, author of A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao

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Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
Ian G. Baird

“An excellent study of the history and politics of southern Laos that, for the first time, places the little-known polity of Champassak in the context of Lao and Thai history, establishing its significance for the emergence of a modern Lao nation-state.”
—Volker Grabowsky, University of Hamburg

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The Unruly Dead
Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste
Lia Kent

“An important intervention into transitional justice scholarship. Kent interrupts established narratives and problematizes assumptions about victims and their temporal location in the past. Convincing, persuasive, and eminently readable.”
—Caroline Bennett, University of Sussex

Forsaken Causes
Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
Spring 2024

Electrifying Indonesia
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Anto Mohsin
Fall 2023

Development in Spirit
Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
Seb Rumsby
Spring 2023

Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life
Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
Yuxin Ma
Fall 2022

Dynastic Democracy
Political Families in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
Spring 2022

Correctional
Ravi Shankar
Fall 2021

Repossessing Shanland
Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Jane M. Ferguson
Fall 2022 (paperback)

Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020

Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2022 (paperback)

Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Fall 2021 (paperback)

Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Bonnie M. Harris
Fall 2021 (paperback)

Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Spring 2022 (paperback)

Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji
Evadne Kelly
Spring 2022 (paperback)

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Fall 2022 (paperback)

Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020

Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Fall 2021 (paperback)

Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Bonnie M. Harris
Fall 2019

Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
Fall 2019 (paperback)

Dead in the Water
Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos
Edited by Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
Fall 2019 (paperback)

In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2019 (paperback)

A Reckoning
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Sharon W. Chamberlain
Fall 2018

Fagen
An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War
Michael Morey
Fall 2018

Truth's Fool
Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology
Peter Hempenstall
Fall 2017

Hamka’s Great Story
A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam For Modern Indonesia
James R. Rush
Spring 2016

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Mai Na Lee
Spring 2015

Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

Russian-Ottoman Borderlands
The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
Spring 2014

Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Alfred Habegger
Spring 2014

We Shall Bear Witness
Life Narratives and Human Rights
Edited by Meg Jensen and Margaretta Jolly
Spring 2014

The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014

The Human Rights Paradox
Universality and Its Discontents
Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Spring 2014

The Blind Masseuse
A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
Alden Jones
Fall 2013

The Government of Mistrust
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Ken MacLean
Fall 2013

Voices from the Plain of Jars
Life under an Air War
Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers
Spring 2013

Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War
Edited by John Day Tully, Matthew Masur, and Brad Austin
Spring 2013

Filipino Tapestry Audio Supplement
To accompany Filipino Tapestry: Tagalog Language through Culture
Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail and Michael Hawkins
Fall 2012

Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012

Trickster and Hero
Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World
Harold Scheub
Fall 2012

Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Maxine Clarke
Spring 2012

Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2012

Thailand’s Political Peasants
Power in the Modern Rural Economy
Andrew Walker
Spring 2012

Flammable Cities
Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World
Edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, and Jordan Sand
Fall 2011

Filipino Tapestry
Tagalog Language through Culture
Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail and Michael Hawkins
Fall 2011

The Elusive Empire
Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671
Matthew P. Romaniello
Fall 2011

Revolution Interrupted
Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2011

The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010

Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

Dance and the Nation
Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
Susan A. Reed
Fall 2009

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines
Vina A. Lanzona
Spring 2009

Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009

The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia
Jean Gelman Taylor
Spring 2009

The Mekong Delta
Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960
Pierre Brocheux
Fall 2008

Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001
Jeremy Wallach
Fall 2008

From Rebellion to Riots
Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
Jamie S. Davidson
Spring 2008

Anthropology Goes to War
Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand
Eric Wakin
Spring 2008

When “I” Was Born
Women’s Autobiography in Modern China
Jing M. Wang
Spring 2008

Pretext for Mass Murder
The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2006

Plum Wine
A Novel
Angela Davis-Gardner
Spring 2006

Viêt Nam
Borderless Histories
Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid
Spring 2006

The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule
Edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, and Leigh A. Payne
Spring 2005

Hmong in America
Journey from a Secret War
Tim Pfaff
Spring 2005

Recalling the Revolution
Memoirs of a Filipino General
Santiago V. Alvarez, Translated by Paula Carolina S. Malay
Spring 2004

Population and History
The Demographic Origins of the Modern Philippines
Edited by Daniel F. Doeppers and Peter Xenos
Spring 2004

Sitti Djaoerah
A Novel of Colonial Indonesia
M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan, Translated by Susan Rodgers
Spring 2004

Salome
A Filipino Filmscript by Ricardo Lee
Ricardo Lee, Translated by Rofel Brion
Spring 2004

Inventing a Hero
The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio
Glenn Anthony May
Spring 2004

An Anarchy of Families
State and Family in the Philippines
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004

Lives at the Margin
Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004

Putu Wijaya in Performance
A Script and Study in Indonesian Theatre
Edited by Ellen Rafferty
Spring 2004

Voices from the Thai Countryside
“The Necklace” and Other Stories by Samruam Singh
Samruam Singh, Edited and Translated by Katherine A. Bowie
Spring 2004

Reflections on Science by NAKAYA Ukichiro
An Advanced Japanese Reader
Edward E. Daub and Shiro Asano
Spring 2003

Intermediate Technical Japanese, Volume 1
Readings and Grammatical Patterns
James L. Davis
Spring 2003

Beijing
A Novel
Philip Gambone
Spring 2003

Hibiscus on the Lake
Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao
Spring 2003

The International Health Policy Program
An Internal Assessment
Ralph Andreano
Fall 2001

Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Yi-Fu Tuan
Fall 1999

The Forest of Taboos
Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
Valerio Valeri
Spring 1999

Cultures of Secrecy
Reinventing Race in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
Andrew Lattas
Spring 1998

Ono Ono Girl’s Hula
Carolyn Lei-lanilau
Fall 1997

The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire
Charles W. Nuckolls, With a Foreword by Stephen A. Tyler
Fall 1996

Kanji for Comprehending Technical Japanese
Edward E. Daub, James L. Davis, General Editor
Spring 1995

Biotechnology
James L. Davis
Spring 1995

To Remember the Faces of the Dead
The Plenitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain
Thomas Maschio
Spring 1994

Breaking the Chains
Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Edited by Martin A. Klein
Fall 1993

The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism
The Nation-State at Bay?
Edited by Crawford Young
Fall 1993

Magical Arrows
The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe
Gregory Schrempp, With a Foreword by Marshall Sahlins
Spring 1992

From a Shattered Sun
Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
Susan McKinnon
Fall 1991

Family Dynamics in China
A Life Table Analysis
Zeng Yi
Fall 1990

Forbidden Family
A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945
Margaret Sams, Edited with an introduction by Lynn Z. Bloom
Fall 1989

Asian Development
Economic Success and Policy Lessons
William E. James, Seiji Naya, and Gerald M. Meier
Fall 1988

Thailand’s Reproductive Revolution
Rapid Fertility Decline in a Third-World Setting
John Knodel, Aphichat Chamratrithirong, and Nibhon Debavalya
Fall 1987

Oriental Philosophy
A Westerner’s Guide to Eastern Thought
Stuart C. Hackett
Spring 1979

The Burma Delta
Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
Michael Adas
Spring 1974

Traditional Chinese Plays, Volume II
Longing for Worldly Pleasures and Fifteen Strings of Cash
Edited and translated by A. C. Scott
Fall 1969