"Earlier versions of some of the chapters in this book were presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Boston"--Pref.
Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Legislating modernity among the marginalized / Christopher R. Duncan -- Into the mainstream or into the backwater? Malaysian assimilation of Orang Asli / Kirk Endicott and Robert Knox Dentan -- Minorities in the Philippines: ancestral lands and autonomy in theory and practice / James F. Eder and Thomas M. McKenna -- From development to empowerment: changing Indonesian government policies toward indigenous minorities / Christopher R. Duncan -- Developing the "hill tribes" of northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly -- Oxymoronic development: the military as benefactor in the border regions of Burma / Curtis W. Lambrecht -- Becoming Socialist or becoming Kinh? Government policies for ethnic minorities in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam / Pamela McElwee-- All Lao? Minorities in the Lao People's Democratic Republic / Jan Ovesen -- Foreigners and honorary Khmers: ethnic minorities in Cambodia / Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell.