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The Golden Peninsula : Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia / Charles F. Keyes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824840686
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.0959 20
LOC classification:
  • GN635.S58 K49 1995eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE TO THE REPRINT EDITION -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS -- INTRODUCTION THE STUDY OF SOCIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- CHAPTER 1 PRIMITIVE AND TRIBAL WORLDS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS -- Primitive and tribal cultures in Southeast Asian prehistory and history -- Types of primitive and tribal systems in mainland Southeast Asia -- The Semang of the Malay Peninsula -- The Chin of Nothern Burma -- The Karens of Burma and Thailand -- CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THERAVADA BUDDHIST CIVILIZATION IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- The classic Indianized civilizations -- The Tai and the restructuring of Southeast Asian societies -- Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia -- Theravada Buddhism as a popular religion -- Traditional Theravada Buddhist societies and the challenge of colonialism -- The impact of Western colonialism on the Theravada Buddhist societies -- CHAPTER 3 RURAL LIFE IN THERAVADA BUDDHIST SOCIETIES -- Cultural knowledge of Theravada Buddhist villagers -- Population and social structure -- Ecological adaptation and economic organization -- Local communities and the political organization of rural life -- Religion, social structure, and rural life -- CHAPTER 4 TRADITION AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM -- Introduction -- Traditional society in Vietnam -- Cultural traditions and cultural conflict in traditional Vietnam -- Vietnam as a colonial society -- Vietnam in cultural crisis -- War and the two Vietnams -- Rural life in Communist Vietnam -- Ideology, education, and values in Communist Vietnam -- CHAPTER 5 CITIES IN CHANGING SOCIETIES IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- Premodern cities and religiously oriented societies -- Colonial cities in plural societies -- Political culture and contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia -- The economic role of cities in contemporary mainland Southeast Asia -- Life in contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia -- APPENDIX A LANGUAGE GROUPINGS IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- APPENDIX B SIZE, DENSITY, URBAN COMPOSITION, AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF POPULATIONS IN THE COUNTRIES OF MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- INDEX
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE TO THE REPRINT EDITION -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS -- INTRODUCTION THE STUDY OF SOCIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- CHAPTER 1 PRIMITIVE AND TRIBAL WORLDS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS -- Primitive and tribal cultures in Southeast Asian prehistory and history -- Types of primitive and tribal systems in mainland Southeast Asia -- The Semang of the Malay Peninsula -- The Chin of Nothern Burma -- The Karens of Burma and Thailand -- CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THERAVADA BUDDHIST CIVILIZATION IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- The classic Indianized civilizations -- The Tai and the restructuring of Southeast Asian societies -- Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia -- Theravada Buddhism as a popular religion -- Traditional Theravada Buddhist societies and the challenge of colonialism -- The impact of Western colonialism on the Theravada Buddhist societies -- CHAPTER 3 RURAL LIFE IN THERAVADA BUDDHIST SOCIETIES -- Cultural knowledge of Theravada Buddhist villagers -- Population and social structure -- Ecological adaptation and economic organization -- Local communities and the political organization of rural life -- Religion, social structure, and rural life -- CHAPTER 4 TRADITION AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM -- Introduction -- Traditional society in Vietnam -- Cultural traditions and cultural conflict in traditional Vietnam -- Vietnam as a colonial society -- Vietnam in cultural crisis -- War and the two Vietnams -- Rural life in Communist Vietnam -- Ideology, education, and values in Communist Vietnam -- CHAPTER 5 CITIES IN CHANGING SOCIETIES IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- Premodern cities and religiously oriented societies -- Colonial cities in plural societies -- Political culture and contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia -- The economic role of cities in contemporary mainland Southeast Asia -- Life in contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia -- APPENDIX A LANGUAGE GROUPINGS IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- APPENDIX B SIZE, DENSITY, URBAN COMPOSITION, AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF POPULATIONS IN THE COUNTRIES OF MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- INDEX

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