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Regional Identities in Southeast Asia

Contemporary Challenges, Historical Fractures

By Jayeel Cornelio, Volker Grabowsky

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is a community of multiple identities. Over time, its citizens' loyalties were formed around national and transnational frameworks involving ethnic, religious, and ideological affinities. In the post-independence...

Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy of the Tai World

By Volker Grabowsky

During the past four decades an impressive corpus of manuscripts and epigraphical material in Thailand, Laos, and adjacent Tai-speaking areas has been surveyed, documented, and digitized. Scholarly interest in this material has not been restricted...

Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia

By Volker Grabowsky, Frederik Rettig

Written by a multinational team of experts who deploy their disciplinary strengths in history, sociology, social anthropology, political science, and philology to analyze a wide range of sources, including royal chronicles, missionary dictionaries, colonial archival...

Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia

By Ooi Keat Gin, Volker Grabowsky

The research presented in this volume analyzes the impact of ethnic change and religious traditions on local, national, and regional identities. Case studies include the Bru population in Laos/Vietnam, hill tribe populations without citizenship in...

The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship

The McLeod and Richardson Diplomatic Missions to Tai States in 1837

By Volker Grabowsky and Andrew Turton

When British diplomats McLeod and Richardson set out on their missions to the Tai states in December 1836, their aim was trade and friendship. Captain William Couperus McLeod and Dr. David Richardson, both of the...

Chronicle of Sipsong Panna

History and Society of a Tai Lu Kingdom, Twelfth to Twentieth Century

By Foon Ming Liew-Herres, Volker Grabowsky, and Renoo Wichasin

The Tai Lü are a Tai-speaking group closely related to the Khon Müang or Tai Yuan, the dominant ethnic group in Northern Thailand. According to their own historical tradition, the ancestors of the Tai Lü...