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This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai-speaking regions of mainland South East Asia, namely the two basically Tai states, Thailand and Laos, and Tai areas in Burma, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. The book examines representations of non-Tai peoples by various Tai, and representations of Ta

Part 1 Nation, state and politics -- Contradictions in the development of Malay capital - state, accumulation and legitimation - Lim Mah Hui -- An undeveloped state - the study of modern Burma's politics, Robert H.Taylor -- The transformation of the state in Indonesia, Richard Robinson -- Part 2 Industrialization - capital and labour -- The state and capitalist development in Thailand, Kevin J.Hewison -- Peripheral intermediation - Singapore and the emerging international economic order, Hafiz Mirza -- Wage labour in West Malaysia - a study of five factories, Hing Ai Yun. -- Part 3 Agrarian differentiation -- Rice harvesting in Kali Loro - a study of class and labour relations in rural Java, Ann L.Stoler -- Strategies for control of labour in share-cropping and tenancy arrangements, Anan Ganjanapan -- Agrarian differentiation in the southern region of Vietnam, Ngo Vinh Long. -- Part 4 Production and gender relations -- Subordination of women and lack of industrial strife in West Java, Celia Mather -- Philippine domestic outwork- subcontracting for export-oriented industries, Rosalindo Pinedo-Ofreneo -- socialist transformation of agriculture and gender relations - the Vietnamese case, Christine Pelkzer White. -- Part 5 Culture and ideology -- Ideology and social structure in Indonesia, Joel S.Khan -- Toward a history from below, Reynaldo Clemena Ileto -- Rituals of compassion and social control, James C. Scott -- Ideological commodity production, Andrew Turton. -- Part 6 Ethnic histories and identities -- The interiorizations of a perennial minority group, Leo Alting von Geusau -- The Hmong - political economy of an illegal crop, Nicholas Tapp -- Kalinga history and historical consciousness, Esteban Magnnon -- Transformations of Iban Social consciousness, Motomitsu Uchibori.