The Buddha on Mecca's verandah : encounters, mobilities, and histories along the Malaysian-Thai border /
Johnson, Irving Chan.
The Buddha on Mecca's verandah : encounters, mobilities, and histories along the Malaysian-Thai border / Irving Chan Johnson. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (223 p.). - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies . - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index.
Places -- Gaps -- Forms -- Circuits -- Dreams.
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The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame the experiences of borderland residents. Although the Thai represent less than 10 percent of the Kelantan population, they are vocal about their identity as non-Muslim, non-Malay citizens. They have built some of the world's largest Buddhist statues in their tiny villages, in a state that has traditionally been a seat of Islamic governance. At the same time, the Thai grapple with feelings of social and political powerlessness, being neither Thai citizens nor Muslim Malaysians. This thoughtful study offers new perspectives and challenges the classical definition of boundaries and borders as spaces that enforce separation and distance. With insights applicable to comparative border and frontier studies around the world, The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to specialists in Asian and Southeast Asian studies, cultural geography, religious and ethnic studies, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.
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2011.
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English.
9780295804415 0295804416
40021424461
22573/ctvct53ft JSTOR
2021694569
Tempel, ...
Thais--Social life and customs.--Malaysia--Kelantan
Buddhists--Social life and customs.--Malaysia--Kelantan
Ethnology--Malaysia--Kelantan.
Borderlands--Malaysia--Kelantan.
Borderlands--Thailand--Narathiwat (Province)
Thaïlandais--Mœurs et coutumes.--Malaisie--Kelantan
Bouddhistes--Mœurs et coutumes.--Malaisie--Kelantan
Ethnologie--Malaisie--Kelantan.
Régions frontalières--Malaisie--Kelantan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
Borderlands
Buddhists--Social life and customs
Ethnology
Thais--Social life and customs
Grenzgebiet
Kulturkontakt
Dorfgemeinschaft
Buddhismus
Religiöse Minderheit
Chinesen
Malaysia--Kelantan
Thailand--Narathiwat (Province)
Malaysia
Thailand
Kelantan
Ethnographies
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
GN635.M4
306.09595
The Buddha on Mecca's verandah : encounters, mobilities, and histories along the Malaysian-Thai border / Irving Chan Johnson. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (223 p.). - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies . - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index.
Places -- Gaps -- Forms -- Circuits -- Dreams.
Use copy
The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame the experiences of borderland residents. Although the Thai represent less than 10 percent of the Kelantan population, they are vocal about their identity as non-Muslim, non-Malay citizens. They have built some of the world's largest Buddhist statues in their tiny villages, in a state that has traditionally been a seat of Islamic governance. At the same time, the Thai grapple with feelings of social and political powerlessness, being neither Thai citizens nor Muslim Malaysians. This thoughtful study offers new perspectives and challenges the classical definition of boundaries and borders as spaces that enforce separation and distance. With insights applicable to comparative border and frontier studies around the world, The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to specialists in Asian and Southeast Asian studies, cultural geography, religious and ethnic studies, globalization, and cosmopolitanism.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780295804415 0295804416
40021424461
22573/ctvct53ft JSTOR
2021694569
Tempel, ...
Thais--Social life and customs.--Malaysia--Kelantan
Buddhists--Social life and customs.--Malaysia--Kelantan
Ethnology--Malaysia--Kelantan.
Borderlands--Malaysia--Kelantan.
Borderlands--Thailand--Narathiwat (Province)
Thaïlandais--Mœurs et coutumes.--Malaisie--Kelantan
Bouddhistes--Mœurs et coutumes.--Malaisie--Kelantan
Ethnologie--Malaisie--Kelantan.
Régions frontalières--Malaisie--Kelantan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
HISTORY--Asia--Southeast Asia.
Borderlands
Buddhists--Social life and customs
Ethnology
Thais--Social life and customs
Grenzgebiet
Kulturkontakt
Dorfgemeinschaft
Buddhismus
Religiöse Minderheit
Chinesen
Malaysia--Kelantan
Thailand--Narathiwat (Province)
Malaysia
Thailand
Kelantan
Ethnographies
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
GN635.M4
306.09595