The Golden Peninsula : : Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia / / Charles F. Keyes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Keyes, Charles F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE TO THE REPRINT EDITION --; CONTENTS --; MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS --; INTRODUCTION THE STUDY OF SOCIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA --; CHAPTER 1 PRIMITIVE AND TRIBAL WORLDS AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS --; Primitive and tribal cultures in Southeast Asian prehistory and history --; Types of primitive and tribal systems in mainland Southeast Asia --; The Semang of the Malay Peninsula --; The Chin of Nothern Burma --; The Karens of Burma and Thailand --; CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THERAVADA BUDDHIST CIVILIZATION IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA --; The classic Indianized civilizations --; The Tai and the restructuring of Southeast Asian societies --; Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia --; Theravada Buddhism as a popular religion --; Traditional Theravada Buddhist societies and the challenge of colonialism --; The impact of Western colonialism on the Theravada Buddhist societies --; CHAPTER 3 RURAL LIFE IN THERAVADA BUDDHIST SOCIETIES --; Cultural knowledge of Theravada Buddhist villagers --; Population and social structure --; Ecological adaptation and economic organization --; Local communities and the political organization of rural life --; Religion, social structure, and rural life --; CHAPTER 4 TRADITION AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM --; Introduction --; Traditional society in Vietnam --; Cultural traditions and cultural conflict in traditional Vietnam --; Vietnam as a colonial society --; Vietnam in cultural crisis --; War and the two Vietnams --; Rural life in Communist Vietnam --; Ideology, education, and values in Communist Vietnam --; CHAPTER 5 CITIES IN CHANGING SOCIETIES IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA --; Premodern cities and religiously oriented societies --; Colonial cities in plural societies --; Political culture and contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia --; The economic role of cities in contemporary mainland Southeast Asia --; Life in contemporary cities in mainland Southeast Asia --; APPENDIX A LANGUAGE GROUPINGS IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA --; APPENDIX B SIZE, DENSITY, URBAN COMPOSITION, AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF POPULATIONS IN THE COUNTRIES OF MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824840686; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824840686
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles F. Keyes.