Felix Siauw, a popular if controversial Chinese Muslim preacher, is well known for his
affiliation with the transnational Islamist movement, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), as well as …

Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both
self and other in the social sciences and humanities for a long time. They act as a …

As a concept, mobility captures the common impression that one's lifeworld is in flux, with not
only people, but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media …

This paper takes the broker as an entry‐point for considering the problem of exemplification
in anthropology. In particular, it approaches this problem by way of the relationship between …

The book is ambitious and easy to read, has many" rich descriptions," that would be good for
undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian …

Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has
become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become …

Farang (foreign, Caucasian) men have played a significant role in Thai society for several
decades as sex tourists and, more recently, as farang sons-in-law, men who marry Thai …

This article positions types at the center of anthropological knowledge production,
considering them both from the abstract, analytical perspective of expert typologies and from …

This article argues that 'would-be migrants'–people who prepare for migrating overseas to
the extent that their present lives are significantly changed–should become a central figure …

Inspired by a critical reading of James Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed (2009) which
argued that Highlanders in Southeast Asia have intentionally evaded 'state capture and …