Seditious histories : contesting Thai and Southeast Asian pasts

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Seditious histories : contesting Thai and Southeast Asian pasts

Craig J. Reynolds

(Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies / Charles Keyes, Vicente Rafael, Laurie J. Sears, series editors)

University of Washington Press , Singapore University Press, c2006

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This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. He explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam's semicolonialism in the late nineteenth century, the concepts of militarism and masculinity, collective memory and dynastic succession, the relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under Reynolds's microscope, treated with new material and approaches, include cultural nationalism and religious history.

Table of Contents

Prologue Acknowledgments Sources Studying Southeast Asia 1. A New Look at Old Southeast Asia 2. Paradigms of the Premodern State Seditious Histories of Siam 3. Mr. Kulap and Purloined Documents 4. A Seditious Poem and Its History 5. Feudalism as a Trope for the Past 6. Engendering Thai Historical Writing Cultural Studies 7. Religious Historical Writing in Early Bangkok 8. Buddhist Cosmography in Thai Intellectual History 9. A Thai-Buddhist Defense of Polygamy 10. A Thai Manual Knowledge: Theory and Practice The Dialectics of Globalization 11. National Identity and Cultural Nationalism Epilogue Bibliography Index

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