Product Description: This book examines heritage tourism across the Southeast Asian region from different disciplinary perspectives. With material that is new and topical, it makes an important contribution to the fields of tourism studies, cultural studies, development and planning studies, and beyond...read more

Product Description: This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integrated treatment of the important sociological and political economy writings on the region. Using case studies from across the region, King examines wider processes of change in relation to theories of modernization, underdevelopment and globalization and covers a wide range of themes including class, ethnicity and gender, and locates local-level issues and processes in the context of more general political, economic and cultural transformations...read more

Product Description: This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region...read more

Product Description: This anthology, which is a sequel to The Best of Borneo Travel, brings together a further selection of Western encounters with the natural and cultural landscapes of this fascinating island.

Product Description: This is the first text on South-East Asia to examine the relations between anthropology and development in both their theoretical and practical dimensions. This book covers a range of anthropological contributions to development as well as case-studies taken from a variety of fields, including resettlement, tourism, health care, gender, and ecology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume discusses environmental change, natural resource exploitation and the prospect for ecological sustainability in Southeast Asia. The contributors including sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, economists, political economists and historians, presents the findings of recent archival and field research mainly from ongoing programmes of team research based in European universities and institutes...read more

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Product Description: This volume provides brief sketches of the lives and achievements of six nineteenth-century explorers of South-East Asia: Henri Mouhout, Robert Burns, Francis Garnier, Carl Bock, Sir James Scott, and A.W. Nieuwenhuis. The essays cover exploration in Cambodia, Laos, Borneo, Burma and Sumatra...read more

Product Description: Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is still sparsely populated, but it has a remarkable ethnic diversity. This book examines that diversity - in economic and social life, political organization, religion, worldview and material culture - and shows that, beneath these variations, there are common social and cultural features that can be traced back to the Austronesian-speaking migrants who first settled the island about 4,500 years ago...read more

Product Description: Tourism in Borneo: Papers from The Second Biennial International Conference, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, July, 1992. Proceedings Series Volume No. Four Most of the contributions to this volume on tourism arose originally from papers which were presented at the Second Biennial International Conference of the Borneo Research Council held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from 13-17 July, 1992...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Best of Borneo Travel is just that, a fascinating collection of colorful travel notes by Westerners--from those who first visited this Indonesian island-nation in the the sixteenth century to writers still enthralled by Borneo today...read more

Product Description: South-East Asia is developing rapidly as a tourist destination, but what are the effects of this growth upon the peoples of the region? How far is it possible to control the impact of tourism whilst also supporting the industry's role in the region's development? "Tourism in South-East Asia" attempts to answer these questions by providing a critical analysis of the nature of tourism as it has developed in the area...read more