| Description |
viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Religious syncretism or Southeast Asian religion? -- 2. Power and goodness in Thai symbolic representations -- 3. The Javanist perspective -- 4. Filipino religiosity as an expression of family relationships -- 5. Individual and society in modern Thai and Javanese Indonesian literature -- 6. Basic principles of everyday life -- 7. How to be a mother in Thailand -- 8. Living with conflict among Javanese and Tagalog Filipinos -- 9. Status, manner and conscience in Yogyakarta -- 10. A scrutiny of family and gender -- 11. Thai and Javanese ideas about the individual and society -- 12. Changing ideas in a changing environment -- 13. The Thai opening up to the world -- 14. Contemporary cultural dynamics in Java -- 15. The cultural process of lowland Christian Filipino society -- 16. The development of political culture |
| Summary |
"Written for both general readers and specialists, this book explores how modern, urban Southeast Asians view and manage their social life. By comparing the ways they live with their religious representations, with intimate and more distant others, and with their rapidly changing environment, the author demonstrates the marked similarities in the perception of individual and society in three civilizations along the inner littoral of Southeast Asia, irrespective of the great religious diversity that appears to characterize the region at first glance."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
First published in Amsterdam by Pepin Press, 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and indexes |
| SUBJECT |
Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117018
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Thailand -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112472
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Java (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115663
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Philippines -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116573
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| ISBN |
9747551233 paperback |
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