TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Irving Chan
TI  - The Buddha on Mecca's verandah: encounters, mobilities, and histories along the Malaysian-Thai border 
T2  - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
SN  - 9780295804415
AV  - GN635.M4 
U1  - 306.09595 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Tempel, ...
KW  - Thais
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Kelantan
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Buddhists
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Narathiwat (Province)
KW  - Thaïlandais
KW  - Malaisie
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Bouddhistes
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Régions frontalières
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - fast
KW  - Grenzgebiet
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturkontakt
KW  - Dorfgemeinschaft
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - Religiöse Minderheit
KW  - Chinesen
KW  - Ethnographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Études ethnographiques
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index; Places -- Gaps -- Forms -- Circuits -- Dreams; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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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