Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! This book examines three big ideas: difference,
legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation …

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 …

This work is an ethnographic investigation into the everyday lives of young people growing
up and living in contemporary Bangalore. Moving beyond the hype of the Indian 'knowledge …

This paper addresses one of the important dimensions of the experience of youth in
contemporary urban Vietnam; that is their sexual practices, behaviour and attitudes. Within a …

This study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent
Malay middle class reveals that women play an active part in the Islamization process by …

This article develops the concept of gender pluralism to analyze historical and ethnographic
material bearing on Southeast Asia since early modern times. Deployment of this concept in …

This paper considers the implications of feminised labour migration for young men in
Lampung, Indonesia, drawing on performative approaches to masculinities in the context of …

Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and
absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values …

This book is about women, new money and power in East and Southeast Asia. We do not
aim simply to analyse the 'effects' on women of the dramatic economic and social changes …

Vietnam's increased integration into the global market economy entails rapid and dynamic
changes that foster new ways of acting, interacting and rendering the world meaningful. This …