New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Series Editors: Alfred W. McCoy, Ian G. Baird, Katherine A. Bowie, and Anne Ruth Hansen
Associate Editors: Warwick H. Anderson, Ian Coxhead, Michael Cullinane, Paul D. Hutchcroft, and Kris Olds
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies publishes academic books that focus on historical and contemporary problems in this dynamic region, from local issues through global interconnections. While the series as a whole covers cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social issues, individual titles aspire to the fine-grained research and theoretical innovation long associated with scholarship on Southeast Asia. Editorial work is a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin Press and the University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a National Resource Center that has promoted the study of this region for forty years.
Please send all inquiries to UW Press Editor in Chief Dan Crissman.
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Enchanted Modernities
Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong
Micah F. Morton
“With Enchanted Modernities, Morton provides us with the language we need to make sense of the fascinating global Indigenous moment we are witnessing today.”
—Oona Thommes Paredes, author of A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao
Casebound $79.95 S
ISBN 9780299350208
Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty
Within and between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia
Ian G. Baird
“An excellent study of the history and politics of southern Laos that, for the first time, places the little-known polity of Champassak in the context of Lao and Thai history, establishing its significance for the emergence of a modern Lao nation-state.”
—Volker Grabowsky, University of Hamburg
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