Anarchic solidarity : autonomy, equality, and fellowship in Southeast Asia /

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Imprint:	New Haven, CT : Yale University. Southeast Asia studies, c2011.
Description:	ix, 310 p. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Monograph / Yale Southeast Asia studies ; 60 Monograph series (Yale University. Southeast Asia Studies) ; no. 60.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Southeast Asia. Social structure -- Southeast Asia. Solidarity -- Southeast Asia. Equality -- Social aspects. Manners and customs. Politics and government. Social conditions. Social structure. Solidarity. Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs. Southeast Asia -- Social conditions. Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions. Southeast Asia -- Politics and government. Southeast Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8736526

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Other authors / contributors:	Gibson, Thomas, 1956- Sillander, Kenneth.
ISBN:	093869295X 9780938692959 9780938692942 (pbk.) 0938692941 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity. Their members make their livings as nomadic hunter-gatherers, shifting cultivators, sea nomads, and peasants embedded in market economies. While political anarchy and radical equality appear in many societies as utopian ideals, these societies provide examples of actually existing, viable forms of "anarchy." This book documents the mechanisms that enable these societies to maintain their life-ways and suggests some moral and political lessons that those who appreciate them might apply to their own societies."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

A theoretical overview of anarchic solidarity / Charles Macdonald
Sources of sociality in a cosmological frame : Chewong, Peninsular Malaysia / Signe Howell
Cooperative autonomy : social solidarity among the Batek of Malaysia / Kirk Endicott
Childhood, familiarity and social life among East Semai / Robert Dentan
Kinship and fellowship among the Palawan / Charles Macdonald
Kinship and the dialectics of autonomy and solidarity among the Bentian of Borneo / Kenneth Sillander
Egalitarianism and ranking in the Malay world / Geoffrey Benjamin
Encapsulation and solidarity in northeast Borneo : Punan of the Malinau area / Lars Kaskija
Mending nets of relatedness : words and gifts as sources of solidarity in a Sama Dilaut fishing community / Clifford Sather
Nicknames at work and at play : sociality and social cohesion among the Cuyonon of the Philippines / James Eder
Egalitarian islands in a predatory sea / Thomas Gibson.

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