Forthcoming titles

• Ancestors in Borneo Societies
  Death, Transformation, and Social Immortality

Edited by Pascal Couderc and Kenneth Sillander
The first major study of ancestors in Borneo societies, this volume challenges classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship and genealogical understandings of ancestors in anthropology.
NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 50
Forthcoming Dec. 2011, 432 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-091-1 • £50, $80
Pbk • 978-87-7694-092-8 • £19.99, $32
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• Going Indochinese
  Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina

Christopher E. Goscha
A well-written and interesting study of the formation of the modern Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian nation-states offering an innovative concept of space that has far wider applicability. Gives voice not only to the Vietnamese nationalists tempted by the idea of Indochina but also the Laotian and Cambodian nationalists who vehemently opposed the idea of such a federation.
NIAS Classics, 3
Forthcoming Dec. 2011, 192 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-069-0 • £30, $50
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• The Authority of Influence
  Women and Power in Burmese History

Jessica Harriden
First book to explore the relationship between gender and power in Burmese history. Aiming to identify the sources, nature and limitations of women’s power and how opportunities for women are constrained today, it examines the influence of Buddhism and other factors.
Gendering Asia, 7
Forthcoming Mar. 2012, 352 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-088-1 • £50, $80
Pbk • 978-87-7694-089-8 • £19.99, $32
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• Cambodia’s Economic Transformation

Edited by Caroline Hughes and Kheang Un
This is the first book to examine the transformations wrought by Cambodia’s 2002–08 boom, analysing the changing structure of the economy, the relationship between state and market, and outcomes for the poor. It situates Cambodian experience within key debates on the political economy of East Asia, scrutinizing the relationship between class formation, governance and resource distribution.
NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 49
November 2011, 336 pp.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-082-9 • £50, $90
Pbk • 978-87-7694-083-6 • £18.99, $35
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• Development Professionals in Northern Thailand
  Hope, Politics and Power

Katharine McKinnon
Focuses not just on development aid but also on aid professionals themselves, exploring the conflicted identity of being a ‘developer’ as well as the hopes, disappointments and machinations that are the invariable part of ‘doing good’ in the name of development.
AASA Southeast Asia series
Forthcoming Feb. 2012, 280 pp., illus.
Pbk • 978-87-7694-084-3 • £18.99
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• All Religions Merge in Tranquebar
  Religious Coexistence and Social Cohesion in South India

Oluf Schönbeck (with Peter B. Andersen)
Clashes of faith (and studies of these) are increasingly common. This book reverses that perspective with a case of peaceful religious coexistence and social cohesion.
NIAS Studies in Contemporary Asian History, 8
Forthcoming Mar. 2012, 160 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-093-5 • £40, $65
Pbk • 978-87-7694-094-2 • £14.99, $25
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• Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest

Edited by Bernard Sellato
A sumptuous book with 1,200 illustrations (most in colour), this is the first volume ever to survey the world of Borneo’s plaited arts.
NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 48
Forthcoming Dec. 2011, 550 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-074-4 • £40
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• Modern China-Myanmar Relations
  Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence

David I. Steinberg and Hongwei Fan
Drawing on hitherto unavailable Chinese sources, this is the first book-length study examining the increasingly important and dynamic relationship between China and Myanmar, and the responses to this of neighbouring countries and the United States.
NIAS Monographs, 121
Forthcoming Feb. 2012, 432 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-095-9 • £50, $80
Pbk • 978-87-7694-096-6 • £19.99, $32
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• Hunting and Fishing in a Kammu Village
  Revisiting a Classic Study in Southeast Asian Ethnography

Damrong Tayanin and Kristina Lindell
First published in 1991, this book was hailed as an outstanding contribution to SE Asian ethnography. This edition is augmented by new material by Damrong Tayanin, Håkan Lundström, Magnus Fiskesjö and Olivier Evrard.
NIAS Classics, 1
Forthcoming Dec. 2011, 192 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-067-6 • £30, $50
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• Monks and Magic
  Revisiting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in Thailand

Barend Jan Terwiel
An absorbing study of Buddhism as practised in a rural community in the 1970s, describing how full ritual knowledge is only obtained with adulthood and life experiences. A complete update of the 1979 edition augmented by new material on Buddhism and magic.
NIAS Classics, 2
Forthcoming Dec. 2011, 336 pp., illus.
Hbk • 978-87-7694-065-2 • £30, $50
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