Vol.9, No.2 of Southeast Asian Studies
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/

Contents ：

≪Special Issue≫
Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the
Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia
Guest Editors: Monica Janowski and Erik de Maaker

Erik de Maaker and Monica Janowski
Borderland Narratives
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https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-erik-de-maaker-and-monica-janowski/

Frances O’Morchoe
Narrating Loss and Differentiation: Lahu Origin Stories on the Margins
of Burma, China,
and Siam
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https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-frances-omorchoe/

Klemens Karlsson
A Place of Belonging in Myths and Memories: The Origin and Early
History of the Imagined Tai Khuen Nation (Chiang Tung/Kyaingtong, Myanmar)
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https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-klemens-karlsson/

Valerie Mashman
The Story of Lun Tauh, “Our People”: Narrating Identity on the Borders
in the Kelabit Highlands
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https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-valerie-mashman/

Carola Erika Lorea Contesting Multiple Borders: Bricolage Thinking and
Matua Narratives
on the Andaman Islands
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https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2020/08/vol-9-no-2-carola-erika-lorea/

≪Book Reviews≫
Jacques P. Leider
John Clifford Holt. Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya,
Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear. Honolulu:
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019.
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Wasisto Raharjo Jati
Mary E. McCoy. Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Guanie Lim
Francis E. Hutchinson and Lee Hwok Aun, eds. The Defeat of Barisan
Nasional: Missed Signs or Late Surge? Singapore: ISEAS Publishing,
2019.
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Ito Masako
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet. Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political
Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2019.
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Sokhieng Au
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French
Colonial Vietnam. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Nicholas Ross
David Brenner. Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle
in Myanmar’s Borderlands. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
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We are also pleased to announce that Southeast Asian Studies has moved
to a digital submissions system. If you would like to submit a paper
to our journal, please do so electronically through the ScholarOne
Manuscripts online submission system:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/seas.

We are particularly happy to receive papers on agriculture, ecology,
rural development, natural resources management and other related
areas that are analyzed within an area studies framework. Of course,
papers of other topics are equally welcome as well.