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Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia
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Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
TL;DR: The assumption of state authority over forests is based on a relatively recent convergence of historical circumstances as discussed by the authors, which enabled certain state authorities to supersede the rights, claims, and practices of people resident in what the world now calls “forests.”
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Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present [and Comments and Replies]
Thomas N. Headland,Lawrence A. Reid,M. G. Bicchieri,Charles A. Bishop,Robert A. Blust,Nicholas E. Flanders,Peter M. Gardner,Karl L. Hutterer,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Robert F. Schroeder,Stefan Seitz +10 more
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MULTIPLE MODERNITIES: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in a Globalizing Age
TL;DR: The authors examines the politics and meanings of recent changes in three major world religions: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, highlighting the nature of the forces reshaping religious meanings and authority, the processes promoting conversion and standardization, and the implications of these religious refigurations for our understanding of late modernity itself.
The strategic importance of the Straits of Malacca for world trade and regional development
Hans-Dieter Evers,Solvay Gerke +1 more
TL;DR: Based on field observations and recent statistical sources, the authors outlines the current strategic importance of the Straits of Malacca for world trade and regional development, which is a precondition for uninterrupted energy supplies and international trade between the European Union and East Asia.
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The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History
TL;DR: Beaujard as mentioned in this paper presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE, and shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world, leading to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy.
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"The moral economy of the peasant. Rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia", James C. Scott, New Haven - London 1976 : [recenzja] / Andrzej Najman.
Andrzej Najman,James C. Scott +1 more
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Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia
TL;DR: With an eye to their own life goals, the native peoples of Pacific Islands unwittingly present to anthropologists a generous scientific gift: an extended series of experiments in cultural adaptation and evolutionary development as discussed by the authors.
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Trade and Market in the Early Empires.
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Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China
TL;DR: In this article, a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China is presented, and the authors show that marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies.