Ananda Rajah
Biographic Data
| ID | 203314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ananda Rajah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ananda |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajah |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Au' Ma Xae: Domestic Ritual and the Ideology of Kinship Among the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi, Northern Thailand
Remaining Karen: A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and
Political Assassination by Other Means: Public Protest, Sorcery and Morality in Thailand
Since 1989 ‘rites of cursing’, derived from Northern Thai folk-religious practices, have become common in public protests and demonstrations in Thailand. This essay argues that the employment of these practices and associated beliefs as aspects of civil society and contemporary nation-state making in the Thai context can only be understood in terms of the internal logic of sorcery and embedded conceptions of morality
A ‘nation of intent’ in Burma: Karen ethno-nationalism, nationalism and narrations of nation
10.1080/0951274021000029413
Gehan Wijeyewardene (1932-2000)
L'A. retrace la carriere de l'ethnologue sri-lankais Gehan Wijeyewardene (1932-2000), son parcours de chercheur et universitaire, ses centres d'interets, son approche de l'anthropologie. Ne au Sri Lanka, Gehan Wijeyewardene fit l'essentiel de sa carriere academique en Australie. Il fut un pionier de l'anthropologie moderne tai et une figure marquante des etudes thai, notamment a travers ses recherches sur la Thailande du Nord. En annexe, l'A. pre…
Introduction: Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: Comparatist Errors and the Construction of a Region
True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border
A bronze drum 2. Boar tusk's children 3. White collar flowerland 4. True love at home 5. Water child, land child 6. A simple man 7. Fighting mean, fighting clean 8. Great lake and the elephant man 9. Bartholomew's borders 10. The three seasons Interlude: from the Kok River 11. Last of the longhouses 12. A delicate bamboo tongue 13. True love in love 14. Fermented monkey faeces 15. Perfect hosts 16. Old guard, young turks 17. True love and white r…
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Nation-State The Karen in Burma and Thailand
Orientalism, Commensurability, and the Construction of Identity: A Comment on the Notion of Lao Identity
The notion of a Lao identity is often taken for granted. It is argued that Lao ethnic and national identity are historically constituted and may also be seen as products of the merging of legendary, historical, political and, indeed, scholarly discourses. It is, in other words, a and this paper seeks to examine some of the sociological and anthropological issues, conceptual and methodological, relevant to the construction of Lao identity
Commensalism as Practical Symbol and Symbolic Practice Among the Sgaw Karen of Northern Thailand
Thailand in 1986: Change and Continuity, Yet Again
Implications of Traditional Karen Land-Use Systems for the Introduction of New Cropping Systems: Some Observations from Ban Hua Lao, Huai Thung Choa, Northern Thailand
Ananda Rajah, Implications of Traditional Karen Land-Use Systems for the Introduction of New Cropping Systems: Some Observations from Ban Hua Lao, Huai Thung Choa, Northern Thailand, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, Natural Resource Development and Environmental Stability in the Highlands of Northern Thailand (Nov., 1983), pp. 353-356
A ‘nation of intent’ in Burma: Karen ethno-nationalism, nationalism and narrations of nation
10.1080/0951274021000029413
True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border
A bronze drum 2. Boar tusk's children 3. White collar flowerland 4. True love at home 5. Water child, land child 6. A simple man 7. Fighting mean, fighting clean 8. Great lake and the elephant man 9. Bartholomew's borders 10. The three seasons Interlude: from the Kok River 11. Last of the longhouses 12. A delicate bamboo tongue 13. True love in love 14. Fermented monkey faeces 15. Perfect hosts 16. Old guard, young turks 17. True love and white r…
Remaining Karen: A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and
Orientalism, Commensurability, and the Construction of Identity: A Comment on the Notion of Lao Identity
The notion of a Lao identity is often taken for granted. It is argued that Lao ethnic and national identity are historically constituted and may also be seen as products of the merging of legendary, historical, political and, indeed, scholarly discourses. It is, in other words, a and this paper seeks to examine some of the sociological and anthropological issues, conceptual and methodological, relevant to the construction of Lao identity
Political Assassination by Other Means: Public Protest, Sorcery and Morality in Thailand
Since 1989 ‘rites of cursing’, derived from Northern Thai folk-religious practices, have become common in public protests and demonstrations in Thailand. This essay argues that the employment of these practices and associated beliefs as aspects of civil society and contemporary nation-state making in the Thai context can only be understood in terms of the internal logic of sorcery and embedded conceptions of morality
Implications of Traditional Karen Land-Use Systems for the Introduction of New Cropping Systems: Some Observations from Ban Hua Lao, Huai Thung Choa, Northern Thailand
Ananda Rajah, Implications of Traditional Karen Land-Use Systems for the Introduction of New Cropping Systems: Some Observations from Ban Hua Lao, Huai Thung Choa, Northern Thailand, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 4, Natural Resource Development and Environmental Stability in the Highlands of Northern Thailand (Nov., 1983), pp. 353-356
Thailand in 1986: Change and Continuity, Yet Again
Commensalism as Practical Symbol and Symbolic Practice Among the Sgaw Karen of Northern Thailand
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Nation-State The Karen in Burma and Thailand
Orientalism, Commensurability, and the Construction of Identity: A Comment on the Notion of Lao Identity
The notion of a Lao identity is often taken for granted. It is argued that Lao ethnic and national identity are historically constituted and may also be seen as products of the merging of legendary, historical, political and, indeed, scholarly discourses. It is, in other words, a and this paper seeks to examine some of the sociological and anthropological issues, conceptual and methodological, relevant to the construction of Lao identity
True Love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese Border
A bronze drum 2. Boar tusk's children 3. White collar flowerland 4. True love at home 5. Water child, land child 6. A simple man 7. Fighting mean, fighting clean 8. Great lake and the elephant man 9. Bartholomew's borders 10. The three seasons Interlude: from the Kok River 11. Last of the longhouses 12. A delicate bamboo tongue 13. True love in love 14. Fermented monkey faeces 15. Perfect hosts 16. Old guard, young turks 17. True love and white r…
Introduction: Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: Comparatist Errors and the Construction of a Region
Gehan Wijeyewardene (1932-2000)
L'A. retrace la carriere de l'ethnologue sri-lankais Gehan Wijeyewardene (1932-2000), son parcours de chercheur et universitaire, ses centres d'interets, son approche de l'anthropologie. Ne au Sri Lanka, Gehan Wijeyewardene fit l'essentiel de sa carriere academique en Australie. Il fut un pionier de l'anthropologie moderne tai et une figure marquante des etudes thai, notamment a travers ses recherches sur la Thailande du Nord. En annexe, l'A. pre…
A ‘nation of intent’ in Burma: Karen ethno-nationalism, nationalism and narrations of nation
10.1080/0951274021000029413
Political Assassination by Other Means: Public Protest, Sorcery and Morality in Thailand
Since 1989 ‘rites of cursing’, derived from Northern Thai folk-religious practices, have become common in public protests and demonstrations in Thailand. This essay argues that the employment of these practices and associated beliefs as aspects of civil society and contemporary nation-state making in the Thai context can only be understood in terms of the internal logic of sorcery and embedded conceptions of morality
Remaining Karen: A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the Maintenance of Identity
It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and
Au' Ma Xae: Domestic Ritual and the Ideology of Kinship Among the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi, Northern Thailand
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 works) · Cambodian History and Society (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Asian Studies and History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)