This article proposes an analysis of local politics through an ethnographic exploration of headship. It approaches the experience and enactment of politics by describing a day in the life of a headman in rural lowland Myanmar to show how an...

This volume looks at the secular state in the context of contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from...

The paper draws up a preliminary inventory of the endangered musical heritage of the island of Ataúru (Timor-Leste), through a first survey in two villages (Makdadé, and Makili). After a summary of the musical forms presented through time, the...

The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish. Building on...

For many years, fieldwork was impossible in Laos due to the wars and then because of the overthrow of the royal power and the establishment of a revolutionary regime. Yet this country – where, to this day, very diverse ethnic minorities make up more...

The history of the kingdom of Patani, on the eastern coast of the Thai peninsula along the South China Sea, has attracted scholarly interest since early nineteenth century. While the timing and circumstances surrounding its emergence remain unclear...

In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and...

Delphine Allès et Pascal Vennesson, 2021, « Military Security », in Thomas Christiansen, Emil Kirchner, See Seng Tan (dir.), The European Union’s Security Relations with Asian Partners. The European Union in...

Aux Indes néerlandaises, l’existence d’une importante communauté de descendants de Chinois ne lisant plus ou peu le chinois entraîna un courant tout à fait exceptionnel de traduction et de diffusion de romans chinois traditionnels en malais sous...

Quatrième état le plus peuplé de la planète, premier pays du monde musulman, seule véritable démocratie d'Asie du Sud-Est, l'Indonésie demeure un géant méconnu. Au carrefour des influences indienne et chinoise, les frontières de ce vaste archipel...