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Title Civilizing the margins : Southeast Asian government policies for the development of minorities / edited by Christopher R. Duncan.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
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 2nd FL Social Science Library Books  GN635.S58 C59 2004    Available
Collation 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note "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.
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Government relations.
Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples -- Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.
Minorities -- Southeast Asia.
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Southeast Asia.
Social planning -- Southeast Asia.
Rural development -- Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations.
Southeast Asia -- Politics and government.
Alt Author Duncan, Christopher R.
ISBN 0801441757 (cloth : alk. paper)
080148930X