U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDIES (Imprint)

Center for South East Asian Studies

The University of Michigan's Center for South East Asian Studies dates its origin to the 1961 founding of the Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, which soon thereafter became national centers for language training and area-related studies and research. Since gaining its full independence in 1999, the Center for South East Asian Studies has grown to be one of the largest in the U.S., with over forty-five faculty associates representing a large number of University departments and professional schools.

Center for South East Asian Studies (CSEAS) Publications
1080 S. University, Ste. 3603
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
Phone: 734-764-0352
Fax: 734-936-0996
Email: cseas@umich.edu
Website: www.ii.umich.edu/cseas/

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Powerful Learning

Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma’s Last Dynasty, 1752–1885

By Michael Charney
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

The first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma, before the British conquest

Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia

New Approaches to Performance Events

Edited by Jan Mrazek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Solid and accessible scholarship about a multifaceted form of art

The Padaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated

By Sao Mangrai
Subjects: History, Asian History, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Provides a wealth of insight into the history of the Tai and the spread of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar and Thailand

Thai and Indic Literary Studies

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney discusses Thai Riddles, problems in translating Thai poetry, and historical development and Sanskrit influences in Thai verse forms

Tai Dialect Studies

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A study of the tai language family and dialects, inlcuding grammar notes, glossaries, texts, and translations

The Lue Language

Glossaries, Texts and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney, using several informants, compiled an extensive glossary of the Lue language, complete with texts and translations

Central Tai Dialects

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A monograph of Central Tai dialects that offers extensive glossaries, texts, and translations with additional notes

Southwestern Tai Dialects

Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A thorough examination of Southwestern Tai Dialects, including an extensive glossary as well as texts and translations

Independence and Democracy in Burma, 1945–1952

The Turbulent Years

By Balwant Singh
Subjects: History, European History, Political Science, Human Rights, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

The memoir of Balwant Singh, a civil servant under both the British and independent governments of Burma, provides a dramatic account of the turbulent years immediately following World War II.

The Saek Language

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A thorough description of the Saek language, containing a 551 page glossary with around ten thousand lexical iterms as well as more than 300 pages of texts and translations

Boundaries of the Text

Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia

Edited by Joyce Flueckiger & Laurie Sears
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eight essays examine oral and textual practices in South and Southeast Asian epic performance traditions of the Mahabharata and Ramayana

The Tai Dialect of Lungming

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Represents one of the most complete examinations yet undertaken of a dialect belonging to the Central Branch of the Tai language family

The Yay Language

Glossary, Texts, and Translations

By William Gedney
Edited by Thomas Hudak
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Reference, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gedney’s work on Yay, published in this volume, consists of a lengthy glossary and a collection of folktales and traditional songs.

After Duwagan

Deforestation, Succession, and Adaptation in Upland Luzon, Philippines

By Peter Brosius
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

Provides a model for empirically assessing the practice of shifting agriculture through a case study of Ayta farming systems

Writing on the Tongue

Edited by A. Becker & A. L. Becker
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Six studies examine various forms of literature in Java, Bali, and Indonesia as a whole.

Changing Lives, Changing Rites

Ritual and Social Dynamics in Philippine and Indonesian Uplands

Edited by Susan Russell, Clark Cunningham, and Clark E. Cunningham
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

Seven papers explore the ways in which cultural identity and socioeconomic change among local societies in insular Southeast Asia are expressed in ritual

Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia

Edited by A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Natural Resources, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eleven papers explore the ecological ramifications of ethnicity in Southeast Asia.

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia

Edited by A. Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, Kathleen Gillogly, and Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Natural Resources, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Eleven papers explore the ecological ramifications of ethnicity in Southeast Asia.

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Karawitan

Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 1

Edited by Judith Becker, Alan H. Feinstein, and Alan H. Feinstein
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Music
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

An essential collection of writings on Javanese gamelan and vocal music

Philippine Society and the Individual

Selected Essays of Frank Lynch, 1949–1976

By Aram Yengoyan, Frank Lynch
Edited by Perla Makil, and Perla Q. Makil
Subjects: Sociology, Psychology, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Seventeen articles by the late Frank Lynch, S.J., well-known anthropologist and pioneer in Philippine sociology.

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia

Perspectives from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography

Edited by Karl Hutterer
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Economics, International Economics, Sociology
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Uncovers patterns of social interaction made visible through scenarios of economic exchange

Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History

The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft

Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Human Rights, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia
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