Religion is a preeminent social institution that meaningfully shapes cultures. Prevailing
theory suggests that it is primarily a benevolent force in business, and differences across …

This is a fascinating ethnography about young Khmer women moving to the city to work in
the garment factories, in prostitution, and as street sellers. The author makes good use of …

Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers
brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in …

Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-
modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit …

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health
services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of …

This article traces the genealogy of a persistent cultural stereo-type that has long defined
and constituted academic and popular knowledge about Burma and, more broadly …

Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering
the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts …

Historians of Southeast Asia have begun to consider the history of women and gender
relatively recently, even though the complementary relationship between men and women …

" The centrality of death rituals has in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism been
little documented. The current volume brings together a range of perspectives on Buddhist …

In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French
Colonial Vietnam is a pioneering exploration of the discourses on poverty and poor-relief …