“Anthropology is a sensitive barometer of social concerns, providing invaluable insights into national sensitivities. This volume offers a critical reading of these separate national barometers across the Southeast Asian region from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore to Indonesia and the Philippines. It gives a glimpse of both national and transnational research on a great variety of social formations in transition.”

James J. Fox, Australian National University

“This is a comprehensive, useful primer on the practice of anthropology in Southeast Asia from the viewpoint of Southeast Asian academics heavily engaged in the field.”

Choice

“Each contribution may be read as an introduction to the depth and form of the establishment of formal anthropology.”

SOJOURN

"This short review doesn’t reflect the richness of the ten accounts presented in this volume, the in-depth historical and institutional contextualization and the interesting depicted ethnographies . . .  [this is] an important contribution to the understanding of the countries’ anthropology histories and current trends.”

Moussons

“The book makes it clear that it refrains from creating a ‘singular master narrative' for anthropology in Southeast Asia. But despite keeping these threads loose, by assembling them in a single volume this book is an appealing invitation for added reflection, and to weave these loose threads into new configurations."

Andrea Ragragio | Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde

“The chapters in the book provide a strong introduction to anthropological works emerging from Southeast Asia by Southeast Asians. . . . The book will be useful to researchers of Southeast Asia who are looking to be introduced to the formation of anthropological scholarship in the region."

International Journal of Asian Studies