Fall 1996 Bulletin

SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM

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FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends,

During academic year 1995-96, a great deal was achieved at the Southeast Asia Program. The staffing and programmatic base was solidified and a dedicated leadership team was assembled. Yet we now face new challenges, because future funding sources are uncertain and the faculty is in transition. SEAP experienced several staff changes in the past year: new persons were hired and some positions were eliminated or reconfigured. Staff in the Director's Office have accomplished an enormous amount of work related to changes in the university admin­ istrative environment, budgeting and accounting procedures, and computerization. With a new editor and a new business manager and also new distribution facilities, we have confirmed our commitment to maintain our publications operation. Our outreach co­ ordinator has continued to raise the profile of our Program in the university and beyond; this past year, she was selected to represent Cornell University at a national conference on outreach and is a pacesetter for promoting outreach activities at Cornell. Our Kahin Center building manager has implemented policies that have brought more students into the building and enabled fuller use of the available facilities. At the Echols Collec­ tion, a new Southeast Asian librarian was hired and we have made the commitments necessary to insure that, in a time when library acquisitions are everywhere being scaled back, our superb Southeast Asian library will continue to maintain the level of acquisi­ tion that it has in the past. The Graduate Student Committee deserves commendation for an excellent year of activities. The weekly lecture series and the annual banquet, which the committee organizes, were well-planned and well-attended. Our staffing and admin­ istrative situation is at an optimum level of performance and provides a solid basis for the Program's activities. This past year has seen the appointment of two new associate directors: Thak Keith W. Taylor, associate professor of Chaloemtiarana and myself. Under the inspired leadership of our director, John U. Vietnamese studies and associate director Wolff, with the advice of our colleagues on the Executive Committee, with the lively of the Southeast Asia Program. participation of our students, and with the expert support of our staff, we continue to (Photograph by Robert Barker, affirm our place at the forefront of Southeast Asian studies. We are especially encouraged University Photography.) that during the course of the past academic year we have established a good working relationship with the new university administration; Cornell's new provost and the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences have both been very supportive in concrete, practical ways. This publication hos been mode Two important considerations that occupy our attention are uncertainties about future funding and a faculty in transition. Although federal funding is being reduced a possible by the generosity of bit, we are pleased that Congress continues to support area-studies centers; nevertheless, Robert ond Ruth Polson. interest in area-studies programs has faded among private foundations, and we must continue to think creatively about how to maintain our commitments to publications, Front cover: Cotton batik, naga bisikan (big whisperin·g snake) pattern. From the library acquisitions, language teaching, student fellowships, and the Kahin Center slide collection of Benedict Anderson. facilities. Inside front cover, pages 4 and 12: Cotton We are putting much thought and effort into addressing the fact that our faculty is in batik, Tjeplok design, unt11k banyu transition and that the future of the Program requires that we assemble a new generation (bubbling water) pattern, from Solo. of teacher-scholars. This is an exciting endeavor that will take several years and the From the slide collection of Benedict Anderson. Page 14: Cotton batik, terang exploration of many possibilities, but we are cheered by encouraging indications. bu/an pattern, phoenix motif, created in We invite you to read in this issue of our Bulletin about some of the things that are the I 960s by Go Tik Swan, in Solo. From important to us. the collection of !wan Tirtaamidjaja, Jakarta. Inside back cover: Ceremonial K. W. Taylor cotton cloth, ulos ragidup, Batak Associate Director highlands, Northern Sumatra. From the collection of Benedict Anderson. Illustrations throughout this issue are by Amporn Kompipote or Kaja McGowan. Fall 1996 As the Sticks Fall: Mien Ritual in Northern

Hjorleifur Jonsson

I started my research with Mien went out at the western side of the kitchen, uplanders in northern Thailand, and then headed north, for a moment. But A I thought I was primarily going then we continued around the house and to look at the economics of householding, walked west along the road through the but I got somewhat caught up in rituals, village. Maybe it was enough to intend to sometimes almost too caught up. go north. Then after about a hundred yards The New Year is a period of much we stepped off the road and everyone picked ritual activity, for in this season each house­ flowers from a tree. This was for the offer­ hold is expected to make an offering to ing, and we also picked pebbles off the their ancestors. Since I was doing house­ ground, for our own good luck, I was told. hold surveys, and watching rituals, I vis­ Not knowing any of this beforehand, I just ited every household during this time, and nodded and did what other people did. Back people in each house claimed that they at the house, after our short venture we made especially good sweets from sticky went through bowing gestures with bills of rice. I quite liked the sweets and was curi­ spirit money in our hands, first facing the What most rituals look like: A medium chants at a table set with the offering-a ous about the rituals, and enjoyed much of door, which was intended to send off mis­ chicken, incense, spirit money, and liquor. both. No one else was curious about these fortune so we would all be cleared for the The anthropologist's tape recorder was rituals: most times, only the medium, I, second part of the ritual, which was to pay not offered. (Photograph by Hjorleifur and the offered animal were gathered in a respect to the ancestor spirits. At the end of Jonsson.) room. After having sat through and re­ each stage, one of the mediums let the di­ corded over a dozen of these events, I felt I vining sticks fall, to see if the spirits ac­ knew rather well how Mien rituals went. cepted the offering. Of course I was wrong. This went well, and at each offering a On the actual New Year's day, some­ big pile of spirit money was burned, which thing of a collective ritual was planned in converts it from pieces of paper in the hu­ one of the houses, and I went there with man world to actual value in the spirit some other people a little after 4 a.m. The world. There are several different denomi­ air at the house was thick with the smell nations, which vary in how much people and smoke of firecrackers. A band was play­ stamp on them. A little before daybreak, ing: four men with a drum, a double-reed the band led us to another house, and we oboe, gongs, and cymbals. The tune was picked flowers off a tree on the way. We for the spirits, and there is only one tune paraded in this way through the village and when people play music for spirits, while stopped at eight houses for an offering. At they may choose from over three dozen the last house, someone asked me to go tunes when it's just for the humans. There outside and invite a couple of Western tour­ were several mediums chanting, and about ists to join us. They had come through on fifty people assembled. One of the medi­ bicycles and were resting in the shade of a ums let divining sticks fall a number of tree. There are practically never tourists in times, and then he said the spirits wanted this area, and the locals were curious. This us to go north. was an English pair, a man and woman Musicians leading a procession of villagers He had been asking about where to go who had been bicycling across Thailand. at Mien New Year. (Photograph by to find flowers for an offering. Off we went, While they had been all over, they had never Hjorleifur Jonsson.) but there was no door to the north, so we entered a village, so they were quite eager to come in. The pair asked about the reli-

2 Southeast Asia Program Bulletin The villagers humored me when I asked my somewhat endless questions. An anthropologist had stayed with them in the late 1960s, so they had some sense of the kinds of things I was curious about. Some­ times they found some use for me: for hand­ ing out prizes at a local sports competition, for instance. They asked me to accompany them to a meeting with authorities on for­ ests and land use. The villagers were elo­ quent and insistent about their needs for land rights, but the officials said that hill tribes were so insignificant on the national level that laws could not be amended to accommodate them. We returned rather The ritual at which the author was invited to be a participant. Men in a trance flung frustrated to the village. I understood that themselves on a pile of burning coals, and assistants carried them off. (Photograph by Hjorleifur Jonsson.) the struggle I had witnessed was part of a larger conflict that threatened traditional gion of the locals, and villagers asked if they the floor. The men who had showered ear­ village life. These days villagers are increas­ were married. Not wanting to get into any lier were now sitting on a bench, and the ingly leaving their homes and going off for lengthy explanations, I said they were mar­ band was playing loudly. Then one after wage work, as hill farming is outlawed. The ried, and told them villagers were con­ another, the men on the bench fell into a lucky ones go abroad, which pays about ducting a Taoist ritual. Then we all had trance and then flung themselves on the ten times more than the work they would tea and chatted. Once the ritual was over at pile of burning coals. They were picked up get in Thailand. The ones who stay behind this house, there was a big lunch that hon­ by assistants, and kept in a corner of the complain that the village is no fun any­ ored the descendants of the founder of the room. They remained in a trance and were more, that it is too quiet with so many village. led by the medium in a series of steps which people off for school or work. The couple left in the afternoon, after culminated in each of them offering a To many people, it looks like tradi­ the day cooled down a bit. People lingered chicken. The medium then woke them up tional village life has come to an end. But a at the agricultural center, where the lunch from their trance, and they checked each look at the history of the region suggests was held, and I came back there in the early other to see if they had gotten burned. None that "tradition" is not an appropriate term evening to watch a video about Yao in had, and this showed the protection they for the past, and as I write my thesis I try to (Mien are also called Yao). The tape had from the ancestors. When I asked find ways to describe a social landscape of was dubbed with Chinese music, so there people about this ritual afterwards, I people moving in and out of particular re­ was no way of hearing what the Chinese learned that I had almost been recruited lations, and how units such as villages Yao were saying. I was getting sleepy, so I for it, but then the spirits indicated through change in the process. Change is not new, left the agricultural center and was on my the sticks that there were enough partici­ and if one goes back far enough in the way back to the house where I stayed when pants already. "But I can't do this," I said. murky historical record, it is possible to a man came up to me and said I had to go "Well," one man replied, "if the spirits like ponder what led to the category of "up­ with him to watch a ritual. I thought yet you, they will ask for you, and you will landers" in the first place. The people I was another offering to ancestors was in store, have to do it." with are not relics, or particularly sad, and and felt I had seen plenty enough to be I still don't know what would have I owe it to them to provide a sense of their excused from this one. But the man in­ happened if I'd had to go into a trance and world as moving, not for the first time. And sisted and pulled my arm, so I let him lead. fling myself at the pile of burning coals. as the world moves, so do the people, and When we got to the house, some men During most of the time I spent with the their views change. were cutting and stamping money for the Mien uplanders, my concerns were rather Hjorleifur Jonsson is a doctoral candidate in the spirits, and others were taking a bath, first mundane: they involved keeping my bal­ Department of Anthropology with steaming hot water and then cold. A ance on the muddy paths in the village and medium poured liquor into cups for the keeping my motorbike out of the way of spirits, lit incense sticks, and tapped his bigger and faster vehicles on the highway. I divining sticks on the table. One man fell, both in the village and on the road, but brought in burning coal and placed it on that's another story.

Fall 1996 3 Stanley J. O'Connor Retires

George Mel. Kohin

tanley J. O'Connor's retirement in the art and archeology of the area had from Cornell this year after thirty scope to develop, and when he returned Syears of teaching at our university for a final year of work in Washington, he is a heavy loss. He has been one of the pil- had made up his mind to make the dra­ lars supporting the Southeast Asia Program matic shift from the security of a good job as well as the Department of the History of in the federal government to the unpre­ Art. As a path-breaking scholar and an ex­ dictability of a career in the field of art his­ traordinarily gifted teacher, he has made tory. That decision took courage as well as Cornell the paramount academic center for commitment. the study of Southeast Asian art in this Enrolling as a graduate student in country. He has attracted many, ifnot most, Cornell's Department of the History of Art of the best students in this field; the diver­ in the fall of 1961, he soon won a Ford sity of their dissertations reflects the ex­ Foreign Area Training Fellowship, which traordinary range of his own interests in enabled him to conduct the field re­ traditional and modern Southeast Asian art. search in southern Thailand in 1963 that The early trajectory of Stan's career culminated in his doctoral dissertation, hardly seemed likely to have landed him in "Brahmanical Sculptures of Peninsular Art History. When he earned his bachelor's Siam" (published in 1972 under the title degree at Cornell in 1951, his was in Hindu Gods of Peninsular Siam). His was Government, and he continued in that dis­ the first Ph.D. degree to be earned in his cipline, earning an M.A. at the University department, which up to that time had not of Virginia, where his thesis was on "Agrar­ gone beyond awarding the M.A. degree for ian Reform in Communist China." And graduate study. for ten years he worked in Washington as a In 1964, even before he completed the senior analyst in the federal government. Ph.D., Stan was invited to become an in­ That he was successful there and well re­ structor in the Department of the History garded for his knowledge of Southeast Asia of Art; this was the first university-level is indicated by the fact that, when in 1960 appointment in America of a specialist in President Kennedy made a television ap­ the field of Southeast Asian art. The next pearance to try to explain American policy year he was appointed assistant professor, towards , it was Stan who prepared the and just two years later, promoted to asso­ large map to which the president pointed ciate professor, after which, in four years to show that country's position in relation rather than the usual five, he was, in 1971, to its neighbors. (He was not responsible appointed full professor. Contrary to the for the president's singular pronunciation usual stereotype of an art historian, he was of the country's name so that it rhymed, an excellent administrator. From 1966 to appropriately, with "chaos.") 1970 he served as chair of the Department But a bureaucratic career was hardly of Asian Studies; from 1971 to 1976 he suitable to Stan's nature. When he was re­ chaired his own department; and from 1979 warded for the quality of his work in Wash­ to 1984 served the Southeast Asia Program ington by a sabbatic year, 1958-59, at an · as one of its ablest directors. American university of his choice, he chose He soon emerged as one of his to come to Cornell for study in its South­ department's most successful teachers-of east Asia Program. There his initial interest undergraduates as well as graduate stu­ dents. The coverage of his courses has ex­ tended not only to his two major areas of geographical specialization-Southeast and South Asia-but has embraced broader subjects as well: "Introduction to Art His­ tory: Asian Traditions" ( with ninety stu­ dents in 1995), "Ceramics of Asia," and "Problems of Art Criticism." The enroll­ ments in these courses and the high quality of graduate students he has attracted have contributed significantly to the stature and reputation of his department. Stan's research has issued in four books, at least thirty-five articles, and eleven reviews. Often penetrating what has been terra incognita for other scholars, his writ­ ings are marked by fresh insights that have not only significantly extended the fron­ tiers of knowledge in his field but have been important to his success as a teacher. Surely one of the keys to this accomplishment has been his insistence on an approach that provides a broad historical and cultural context, so that objects of art are never seen simply as pieces in a museum, but rather as Professor Stanley J. O'Connor. (Photograph by Robert Barker, University Photography.) alive and interacting with the societies for which they were produced. As he recently put it in what will undoubtedly be regarded tain the millennium-old presence of a pos­ petencies than the recently published vol­ as one of his most influential articles*: sibly central Java-linked Mahayana Bud­ ume that he edited as the Southeast Asian "Works need to be joined to their social, dhism as well as the influence of the area's component of the Arthur M. Sackler political, and moral context and should be once-brisk trade with China? And is there Gallery's Asian Art and Culture series** linked to the vital play of ideas that are at any other scholar who, in order to under­ wherein all five contributors have been his the centre of modern intellectual life." Most stand the meaning of bas-relief of a central students. It attests to his standing in this fundamentally, art should be linked with Javanese temple, made the effort to master field that it was to him the Smithsonian experience and examined "in the matrix of the technique of traditional Javanese met­ Institution turned to edit this impressive life." And with respect to teaching, courses allurgy-a knowledge also providing Stan volume. on Southeast Asian art should "focus on unusual insight into the psyche of the kris? Cornell's awareness of the importance the regions of human experience over If one were asked to characterize the of the role Stanley J. O'Connor has played which the arts preside." essence of Stan's scholarly orientation, in this university and his national and in­ There is another, but clearly allied and nothing may be more appropriate than an ternational prominence is reflected in its consonant, aspect of Stan's approach to the observation by his friend Oliver W. decision to appoint a specialist in South­ art history of Southeast Asia that sets him Wolters: "I would be inclined to reply that east Asian art history to occupy the posi­ apart from most specialists in his field, par­ it was his determination to annex the disci­ tion he has held ( one cannot say "replace" ticularly from museum- and library-bound pline of art history instead of allowing it to him) after his retirement on July 1st of this theoreticians. That is his willingness to pur­ annex him, cripple the imagination, and year. sue the often arduous field research that stunt his ebullient style." might shed light on the influences-local Undoubtedly, it is the breadth and * "Humane Literacy and Southeast Asian and external-that shaped the character of originality of Stan's non-parochial ap­ Art," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the objects studied. Some art historians may proach that has attracted to his classes stu­ March 1995, pp. 147-158. have matched his knowledge of the tech­ dents in history and anthropology as well ** Winter 1995, vol. VIII, Oxford Univer­ niques of traditional weaving, but who else as those whose primary focus is the history sity Press in association with the Arthur M. has been willing to dig through the iron of art itself. Probably nothing better testi­ Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. slag heaps of the Sarawak coast and ascer- fies to the range of his interests and com-

Fall 1996 5 Reflections about an Anthropologist

A. Thomas Kirsch

n November 1926, Lauriston Sharp, concealed not only an underlying curiosity nineteen years old, published a prize but also, perhaps, an enduring youthful I winning essay in the undergraduate quest for adventure and fascination with Wisconsin Literary Review. He wrote: "per­ the unfamiliar. haps on the whole, the greatest happiness After earning a B.A. degree in philoso­ throughout life ... is given in ... the lasting phy (1929), Lauri spent a year at Wiscon­ contentment of the quiet man rather than sin as a Freshman Dean while he explored the stormy passion of him who is suscep­ his career options. He eventually chose an­ tible to the emotions." Many who knew thropology as his profession and the then Lauri Sharp might agree that he embodied little known region of Southeast Asia as his the "quiet man" in his demeanor, not given area of special interest. Following an ar­ to displays of"stormy passion." But Lauri's chaeological dig and ethnographic encoun­ long life, his professional career, service to ters with Berber culture in Algeria, Lauri his discipline, to academe, to his university, went to study Southeast Asian ethnology to his students, colleagues, family, and at the University of Vienna with Robert friends demonstrate that this "quiet man" Heine-Geldern, one of the few experts on was also a person of prodigious energy and the region at the time. Completing a Cer­ notable accomplishments. tificate in Anthropology at Vienna in 1932, Born after the turn of the century, son Lauri entered the Ph.D. Program in An­ of professor of philosophy Frank Chapman thropology at Harvard. Senior mentors of­ Sharp and Bertha Pittman Sharp, and raised fered Lauri an extraordinary opportunity: in the university town of Madison, Wis­ funding for two years of dissertation re­ consin, Lauri not surprisingly decided to search ( 1933-35) on Australian aborigines be an academic. However, his choice of an­ ( then the prototypic "primitives"). Al­ Professor Lauriston Sharp. thropology as his discipline is remarkable, though his research on the Yir Yoront post­ (Photograph by Alexander Sharp.) for there were few trained professional an­ poned his plans for Southeast Asia, Lauri thropologists in those days. Not long be­ was proud to be one of a handful of re­ fore his death, Lauri recalled that he may searchers who had worked with aborigines have "been nudged toward anthropology" in an area he characterized as "beyond the LAURISTON SHARP AWARD when he studied The Iliad in a Greek course settlements" and "empty on the map." The Louriston Sharp Award is as a junior in high school. He remembered Except for eighteen months ( 1945-46) wondering if the "manic" qualities of the as deputy assistant chief of the State made annually to the student ancient Greeks reflected a distinctive at­ Department's Southeast Asia Division, who hos made the most tribute of their culture, or whether it was a Lauri's personal life and professional ca­ outstanding contribution lo universal characteristic rooted in human reer were closely tied to Cornell. He ac­ scholarship in Southeast Asia and nature. He suggested this question was a cepted an instructorship in anthropology lo the Southeast Asia Program. precursor of anthropology's subsequent in­ here in 1936, the year before his Ph.D. de­ The Sharp prize winner for 1994 terest in "culture and personality." This gree was awarded. Holding the first spe­ was Toni Shapiro, Ph.D. candidate same curiosity may also have led Lauri to cifically anthropology appointment at several summer horseback trips with a num­ Cornell, Lauri was housed in the econom­ in anthropology; for 1995, the ber of peers (a nd later colleagues), travel­ ics department until l 939 when a separate winner was John Thayer Sidel, ing through the American Southwest, sociology and anthropology department Ph .D. candidate in government. visiting archaeological sites and the Indians was established ( which he chaired in 1942- living there. If Lauri was already cultivating 45 and 1949-56). Lauri rose through the the bearing of the "quiet man," it may have academic ranks and was Goldwin Smith

6 Southeast Asia Program Bulletin R. Lauriston Sharp stantial increase in the anthropology fac­ ulty and founding a graduate program March 24, 1907- known as the Cornell Studies in Culture Decem ber 31, 1993 and Applied Science that emphasized Lauri's vision of anthropology as an "ap­ Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and plied" as well as a "pure" discipline. Field Asian Studies at the time of his death. research stations were established in the Emeritus Professor Urie Bronfen­ American Southwest and in , Peru, brenner (B.A. '38) has recalled that he and and Thailand. In 1947, Lauri at last real­ his close friend John Clausen (B.A. '36), ized his dream of research in Southeast Asia, subsequently a distinguished professor of founding the multidisciplinary Cornell­ sociology at Berkeley, were students in the Thailand Project, a pioneering effort gath­ first anthropology course Lauri taught at ering baseline data in Bang Chan, a farming Cornell. Bronfenbrenner reports that Lauri village near . Lauri was also "brought to life for us a whole new world founder and first director ( 1950--60) of in his quiet, unassuming way ... and Cornell's internationally renowned South­ changed forever our conceptions of what east Asia Program which served as a model human beings and the world they lived in for area programs at Cornell and elsewhere. not only could be, but actually were," a He took special pride in the number of non­ view of humanity and of the world that has Western scholars in diverse fields who re­ informed Bronfenbrenner's subsequent life ceived training and experience through and career. Professor Robert J. Smith (Ph.D. these programs and became productive Lauri was strongly '53) recalls that Lauri's graduate teaching scholars and teachers in their homelands. "drawing on philosophy, literature, and an He was also concerned that the results of committed not only to extraordinary range of anthropological research be made accessible for develop­ knowledge, dazzled us all with his urbanity ment programs initiated by local govern­ and wit." Professor Paul Doughty (Ph.D. ments. Additionally, Lauri chaired the expand his discipline '63) also remembers that the graduate stu­ faculty committee that ushered in Cornell's dents of his generation vied with each other Center for International Studies. to serve as Lauri's TAs to perfect their craft Lauri's professional career was multi­ and enrich his university as scholars and teachers. faceted. Besides teaching generations of Professor Stanley J. O'Connor, Lauri's Cornell undergraduate and graduate stu­ but also to have an longtime colleague, vividly projects yet an­ dents, he held numerous visiting appoint­ other image of Lauri in an arts college News­ ments at universities in the U.S. and abroad. letter article (Fall 1981). O'Connor He was a founding member of several schol­ impact on the lives of describes Lauri as "a familiar figure cross­ arly organizations, including the Society for ing the Arts quad ... charging through that Applied Anthropology and the Asia Soci­ people in a rapidly space at such a clip that the air around him ety, and served on the executive boards of seemed lit with an overflow of energy." That various organizations such as the Ameri­ image evokes another aspect of Lauri's life can Anthropological Association, the As­ changing world. and career and adds a dimension that fur­ sociation for Asian Studies (president in ther modulates the tranquil image of the 1961-62), and the National Research "quiet man." Lauri was strongly commit­ Council's Pacific Sciences Board. He had ted not only to expand his discipline and experience as a scholar-researcher with the enrich his university but also to have an indigenous cultures of four continents, impact on the lives of people in a rapidly most especially the diverse peoples of changing world. In the postwar era, Lauri Southeast Asia. Several of his publications and colleagues obtained support from attained the status of classics, notably "Steel various foundations ( Carnegie, Ford, Axes for Stone Age Australians" ( 1952), Rockefeller) to enlarge the infrastructure " People Without Politics" ( 1958) and his of the university and to address the needs presidential address to the Association for of this changing world. This included a sub- Asian Studies: "Cultural Continuities and

Fall 1996 7 Discontinuities in Southeast Asia" ( 1962). Though age brought more infirmities, On his formal retirement in 1973, Lauri Lauri maintained his lively interest in schol­ was presented with a two-volume Festschrift arship, happenings on campus and world by colleagues, students and friends. One affairs. Problems with his legs and back re­ volume (Robert J. Smith, ed., 1974) cel­ duced but did not halt his mobility, and ebrated Lauri's contributions to studies of dimming eyesight, which he tried to over­ cultural change and applied anthropology, Many facets of Lauri's life-scholar­ come by various reading aids, limited his the other (G. William Skinner and A. Tho­ researcher, teacher-advisor, administrator­ reading ability. While colleagues marveled j mas Kirsch, eds., 1975) honored his con­ official-were played out in the public at his indomitable spirit, none of these ] tributions to Thai studies. Even after sphere. There was, of course, a private problems diminished Lauri's enduring cu­ retirement, Lauri remained active. He at­ sphere as well, centering on his home and riosity and enthusiasm for life itself. But, as tended meetings of the Southeast Asia Pro­ family, his wife, Ruth; children, Alexander 1993 drew to a close, our colleague, men­ gram, held office hours, contributed (Zander) and Susannah (Suki) Sharp tor and friend quietly embarked on another lectures, and supervised courses. Although Starnes; grandchildren; and brothers, adventure into the unfamiliar and un­ increasing health problems made field re­ Malcolm and Eliot. Lauri's public and pri­ known. In farewell we can do no better search difficult, he continued to work on vate lives complemented each other in vari­ than echo the words of dean Fred Kahn in his earlier research materials. Thus, the ex­ ous ways. Lauri and Ruth Burdick Sharp 1972 on the occasion of Lauri's assuming tensive files of the Bang Chan Project have married in 1936, the year he began teach­ the Goldwin Smith Chair: Lauri Sharp was been deposited in the University Archives. ing at Cornell. This was the first and long­ "a learned diplomat, a cultivated scholar, a Lauri also worked on his field notes from est of their joint odysseys. Ruth shared in remarkable teacher and a great man." his Yir Yoront research and guided an an­ the overseas research experiences as well as thropological linguist in preparing a lin­ the teaching assignments elsewhere. The guistic sketch and lexicon of this unwritten children also participated when possible. In Memoriam: tongue (Alpher 1991). These materials are More than a companion, Ruth possessed Benjamin A. Batson also accessible to interested scholars in the an interest and self-acquired knowledge of Cornell archives. ceramics that made its own contribution Benjamin A. Batson died on Lauri's achievements as scholar, re­ to the scholarly work in Southeast Asia. January 7, 1996, in , searcher and administrator were recognized Theirs then was a synergistic relationship where he had long served as a in a variety of ways. In addition to the two at many different levels. member of the history Festschrift volumes, a group of his former Lauri built their house on Highland department of the National Thai students established a Lauriston Sharp Road in 1951 following designs of Cornell's University. A Harvard math Essay Prize in 1967 and a Lauriston Sharp noted architect John Hartell. (Vladimir Scholarship Fund to promote social sci­ Nabokov briefly lived there while teaching major and former Peace Corps ence research in Thailand. The Southeast at Cornell and describes the house in his volunteer, Batson completed an Asia Program similarly established a novel Pale Fire.) The living room is fur­ M.A. at the University of Hawaii Lauriston Sharp Prize awarded annually to nished with family heirlooms and memen­ in 1968 and a Cornell Ph.D., in tos of the Sharps's Asian experiences. Books an outstanding student completing his or Southeast Asian history, in 1977. her degree program. In 1989, Lauri received and periodicals stacked here and there tes­ His dissertation was published as the Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the tify to its residents' voracious reading hab­ Society for Applied Anthropology for his its. Visits with a few friends or colleagues the now widely read standard, lifelong contributions to that field. And, in and lively cocktail parties were held here. "The End of the Absolute April 1993, Lauri was honored by the An­ The Sharps often hosted gracious dinner Monarchy in Siam." Dr. Batson's thropology Department, the College of Arts parties. These occasions, simultaneously later writing concerned Thailand and Sciences and the university by having simple and elegant, brought together col­ during the Second World War an anthropology seminar room in McGraw leagues from all over the university, local and the role of such twentieth­ Hall named in his honor (shared with Allan professionals, distinguished (even princely) century Thai intellectuals as Holmberg). On this occasion, Provost visitors, renowned academics from abroad, Nesheim cited Lauri's contributions as and others. Such gatherings were memo­ Kulap Saipradit and Phra Sarasat. teacher, scholar, and humanitarian to im­ rable for their congeniality, urbanity, and proving the quality of education and the charm. quality of life at Cornell.

8 Southeast Asia Program Bulletin Laurence D. Stifel 1930-1995

Randy Barker, with Mike Montesano

1 rry Stifel was visiting professor at political economy on a sectoral basis, Larry [ Cornell University and member of was fully a quarter-century ahead of other L the Southeast Asia Program from American students of the region. 1991 until his untimely death in 1995. Larry While in the Larry also was a man of many talents. He enjoyed an befriended the well-known author F. Sionil extraordinarily varied career in the U.S. and ("Frankie") Jose, whose novels offer de­ abroad. However, he was perhaps best finitive, trenchant criticism of Philippine known and will certainly be longest remem­ society in the decades following the Sec­ bered for his accomplishments in South­ ond World War. Sionil Jose used Larry as east Asia, where he lived and worked for the model for the American development the better part of a decade and a half ( 1959- economist Dr. Lawrence Bitfogel in his 1962 74) as student, teacher, administrator, re­ book, The Pretenders. In a final scene in the searcher, advisor, and cherished friend to book, some youths help repair the punc­ A young Larry with Prince Sitthiphorn, the villagers, scholars, authors, social critics, tured tire of a car belonging to Lawrence's Thai farmer's indefatigable tribune, at the prince's experimental farm near Hua Hin. and public servants. During his time at "Pobres Park" host. After the host remarks Cornell, Larry was an enthusiastic partici­ that they are thieves, Lawrence loses his pant in all aspects of the Southeast Asia composure and shouts, "Damn you! Those guides countless Thais even in the 1990s. Program. His counsel and advice were kids are not thieves. The robbers in this In addition to serving as governor of the sought by students and faculty alike. Al­ country, the real murderers, are people like , Dr. Puey served as dean though with us for only a short period of you." The real Larry seldom lost his com­ of the Faculty of Economics at Thammasat time, he left an indelible mark. posure, but Sionil Jose certainly created a University. Dr. Puey soon urged Larry to As a young man, Lany started down character true to that Larry's values. join the as a visit­ the road toward a career in business. He While completing his doctorate, Larry ing professor at Thammasat. There, from graduated from Harvard College in 1952 spent a year on the faculty of Willamette 1967, he managed the foundation's Social and obtained an M.B.A. degree from the University in Salem, Oregon. It was there Science Project to nurture the development Harvard Business School two years later. that he met his future wife. Dell Chenoweth, of young academics in Thailand. Then he turned to the law, earning an LLB. a fellow Ohioan, was then serving as dean Larry and his family stayed in Thai­ from the Cleveland Marshall Law School of women at Willamette. They married in land until 1974. He viewed his years there in 1959 and passing the Ohio Bar Exami­ 1962, shortly before departing for Burma. as among the most rewarding in his career. nation with the second-highest grade in the It was a fitting start for a family life that At Thammasat, he established and man­ state. But those who knew Larry at this stage would be so enriched by the region. Larry aged an English-medium master's program in his life recognized him as a man with served in Rangoon for two years ( 1962-64) in economics. Intended to prepare students high ideals fertilized by an insatiable inter­ as program economist for the for doctoral study abroad and for profes­ est in the wider world around him. Agency for International Development sional leadership at home, the program's Like so many of us, Larry first went to (USAID). He and Dell celebrated the birth success is in constant evidence to any ob­ the region as a graduate student. There, as of their first child, Laura, there in 1963. He server of Thai affairs. He also brought nu­ the saying goes, he became "hooked." He then went to Bangkok, where he served for merous American scholars to the Faculty spent a year in the Philippines in 1959-60 three years (1964-67) as an economic ad­ of Economics on one-year teaching ap­ as a Fulbright scholar doing field research visor for USAID to the Thai National Eco­ pointments. During their stays, several of on the textile industry; he earned his Ph.D. nomic Development Board (NEDB). A them completed works that remain clas­ in economics from Western Reserve Uni­ fourth member of the Stifel family, David, sics on the Thai economy. At the same time, versity in 1962. The results of his Philip­ was born there in 1965. It was also at the Larry's frequent visits to a rice-growing vil­ pine research appeared as a Cornell NEDB in Bangkok that Larry first met Dr. lage in Nakhon Pathom Province and his Southeast Asia Program data paper; in ad­ , the revered economist interest in the rubber-growing districts of dressing industrial competitiveness and whose example of social commitment southern Thailand resulted in his own pub-

Fall 1996 9

Allen Riedy, Curator

t so long ago a Cornell faculty the newspaper is an unparalleled resource. The Echols Collection is member approached me with The Echols Collection has an uncom­ N the question, "Where can the monly rich store of newspapers. The exact today the premiere daily stock prices of the pre-World War II number of newspaper titles held is uncer­ Jakarta stock market be found?" As there tain but certainly is more than one thou­ appeared to be no scholarly work on the sand. All ten countries of the region are collection for Southeast topic to guide us, we decided that Dutch­ represented in all the major indigenous lan­ language newspapers published in the East guages of the region as well as in Chinese, Asia in the United States Indies during that era might be a useful Japanese, Indic, Arabic, and the major west­ source. Using a variety of bibliographic ern European languages. They span the tools, we were able to identify a number of early nineteenth century to the present. because of the Dutch-language newspapers. At this point Most of our holdings represent newspa­ the formidable resources of the John M. pers no longer published. Subscriptions to dedication, vision, love, Echols Collection on Southeast Asia came currently published newspapers number into play. about eighty. From the list of newspapers, we dis­ Aside from its content and frequency, and untiring labors of covered that fifteen of them are held in a further distinguishing feature of the news­ microfilm format by the Echols Collection. paper is the medium in which it is pub­ the faculty, students, In the course of examining these papers, lished-newsprint, an inexpensive paper the faculty member found some of the data made from pulp, which quickly becomes he was looking for in a regional newspaper brittle and disintegrates. Its use for news­ and alumni, past and from Surabaya-not an obvious source but papers in a sense defines the primary pur­ containing the information he needed pose of the newspaper as a medium to present, of the nonetheless. As of this writing the search disseminate information of current import. continues in the other papers in the hope In fact, use of newspapers in academic re­ of finding additional data. search libraries shows high use within sev­ Southeast Asia Program. Newspapers are rich sources of infor­ eral days of publication and then very little mation detailing both significant global and use, until the researcher appears years or national events and the minutiae of the lives decades later. However, unless some pro­ of ordinary people. Disasters, distant wars, vision has been made to reformat the news­ elections of presidents, the rise and fall of paper, to put it in a medium other than stock markets stand side-by-side with local newsprint, the newspaper will long ago have births and deaths, marriages, the first local turned to dust and its store of information appearance of new technology, the effect will be forever lost. of a new highway on commerce and neigh­ The fact that the Echols Collection has borhoods. Editorials, features, and letters so many Southeast Asian newspapers on provide a local perspective on national is­ microfilm is a tribute to librarians, archi­ sues and alternative viewpoints to local is­ vists, researchers, and conservationists of sues. Advertisements give us some idea of the past who had the foresight to realize economic and commercial activity in the today's trivia is tomorrow's historical trea­ area. For the researcher seeking to bring sure. As a document recording the passage life and understanding to a vanished world, of life, the newspaper is an invaluable

Fall 1996 11 rently received newspapers is about $35,000, not a terribly huge amount of money, but beyond our resources given today's tight budgets. Ideally, an endow­ ment that generates a yearly income of that amount would ensure the preservation of our newspapers. The Echols Collection has been and is fortunate in many ways. It is part of a uni­ versity that values the printed word and is justly proud of its library, which it consis­ tently supports. It is part of a library sys­ tem that treasures and supports special collections such as the Echols Collection. Allen Riedy. (Photograph by Robert Barker, University Photography.) The Cornell University Library, moreover, is a recognized national leader in conser­ record and it is our responsibility to ensure vation and preservation activities. Finally, that this record be preserved for the future. the Echols Collection is today the premiere The Echols Collection, in fact, is actively national collection for Southeast Asia in involved in preserving the recent past for the United States because of the dedica­ the future. Over the past eighteen months, tion, vision, love, and untiring labors of we have microfilmed 134 post- World War the faculty, students, and alumni, past and II newspapers from Southeast Asia. We present, of the Southeast Asia Program. have in our stacks another two hundred As happens with any truly great un­ titles awaiting filming. We have received dertaking, the Echols Collection is the re­ funding assistance from the Southeast Asia sult of grand plans and accomplishments. Microforms Project of the Center for Re­ The Echols Collection is also, and just as search Libraries to film the remaining titles. importantly, the result of numerous small, At the conclusion of this project all of the often little noticed, but vital, contributions ceased newspaper holdings in the Echols from individuals who seek out, acquire, and Collection will be filmed and their preser­ give to the library so many of those rare vation for future scholarship and personal gems that constitute the Echols Collection. research ensured. For more than forty years the Cornell What is not ensured currently is the Southeast Asia Program has been a pillar preservation of the newspapers to which of strength in its financial and moral sup­ we currently subscribe. As traditional fund­ port of the Echols Collection. Early on in ing sources (i.e., private foundations and its history, SEAP realized a great academic the National Endowment for the Humani­ program is possible only with a great li­ ties) for conservation of library materials brary. Without its support, Cornell would have dried up, we are faced with the co­ have a good Southeast Asia collection; with nundrum of continuing to collect the daily SEA P's support, we have a great collection. record of life in Southeast Asia, while we With the continued support of the South­ lack the wherewithal to preserve that east Asia Program and our loyal faculty, record. We have been able to piece together students, and alumni, the future looks a few patchwork solutions, but in the main bright indeed. a permanent long-term solution eludes us. Not surprisingly, the major issue is money. The estimated annual cost to film our cur-

12 Southeast Asia Program Bulletin SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS

Studies on Southeast Asia Series Southeast Asia Program Series A special April 1996 issue of Indone­ Making The Revolution Falters: The Left in sia devoted to studies of the Indonesian Philippine Politics After 1986 fiction writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Daniel S. Lev and Ruth McVey, eds. will soon be available. Issue #61 will in­ This collection examines the genesis and Patricio Abinales, ed. clude the following translated works by evolution of the modern Indonesian na­ A close investigation of the contemporary the author, accompanied by commentary tion-state. Essays range from a study of Philippine Left, focusing on the political and articles on Pramoedya's correspon­ the nation's imaginative conception to a challenges and dilemmas which con­ dence, his life, evolving work, and ideas: study of the Suharto government's politi­ fronted activists following the disintegra­ ♦ "Flunky+ Maid" (Djongos + Babu), cal and financial infrastructure. Essays tion of the Marcos regime and the story by Pramoedya A nan ta Toer; contributed to honor George McT reestablishment of electoral democracy Kahin. Contributors include Benedict R. under . James Siegel, translator O'G. Anderson, Fred Bunnell, Barbara SEAP Series No. 15, 1996. 183 pages. ♦ Commentary, "Flunky+ Maid," Harvey, Mary Somers Heid hues, Daniel ISBN 0-87727-132-1. $15. James Siegel S. Lev, Ruth Mc Vey, Rudolf Mn1zek, ♦ "House" (Rumah) and "My Geoffrey Robinson, and Takashi Other Publications Karnpung" (Kampungku), stories by Shiraishi. Sbek Thom: Khmer Shadow Theater Prarnoedya Ananta Toer; Sumit SOSEA No. 20, I 996. 20 I pages. ISBN 0- Pech Turn Kravel. Khmer text edited by Manda!, translator 87727-719-2. $18. Thavro Phim and Sos Kem. Translated ♦ "My Apologies, in the Name of Expe­ into English by Sos Kem. English text rience," essay by Pramoedya Ananta Essays into Vietnamese Pasts abridged and edited by Martin Hatch. Toer; Alex Bardsley, translator K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore, eds. A book studying the history and signifi­ ♦ "Between Gelanggang and Lekra: The A collection of essays demonstrating ways cance of shadow puppet theater in Cam­ Development of Prarnoedya 's Liter­ to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through bodia. Khmer and English texts describe ary Concepts," Martina Heinschke detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, leg­ the Khmer Reamker, an ancient story ♦ "Pramoedya Ananta Toer and China: ends, documents, and monuments. The whose episodes and characters have fig­ The Transformation of a Cultural In­ many voices heard throughout the book ured in Cambodian shadow theater pag­ tellectual," Hong Liu undermine the idea of a single Vietnam­ eants for centuries. ese past. Published jointly by UNESCO and the ♦ "Only the Deaf Hear Well," Rudolf SOSEA No. 19, 1995. 288 pages. ISBN 0- Sou th east Asia Program. I 996. 363 pages, Mrazek 87727-718-4. $20. with 153 pages of photographs. Khmer ♦ "The Phantom World of Digoel," and English texts. ISBN 0-87727-620-X. Takashi Shiraishi Interpreting Development: Capitalism, $18. Democracy, and the Middle Class in Catalog Thailand Indonesia The new 1996 catalog for Southeast Asia John Girling The October 1995 issue of our semian­ Program Publications is available on re­ A study of rapid capitalist development nual journal, Indonesia, marks the thirti­ quest. It includes all ordering and pricing in Thailand and the rivalries generated eth anniversary of this long-lived information for our books and journal. not only between the older bureaucracy publication. Issue #60 commences with a We are happy to announce that Publica­ and the newer, rising entrepreneurial first-person essay by professor George tions now accepts telephone, credit card, elite, but also between urban and rural McT. Kahin, entitled "Some Recollections and e-mail orders. To ask for a catalog or entrepreneurs. The author, John Girling, and Reflections on the Indonesian Revo­ place an order, please contact Southeast analyzes the significance of these develop­ lution," and includes articles on Ga pit Asia Program Publications, Cornell Uni­ ments for the political future of Thailand. Theatre, the I 815 explosion of Mount versity, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca, NY 14850- SOSEA No. 21, 1996. ISBN 0-87727- Tambora, the uneasy relationship be­ 2819; phone, 607 255-8038; fax, 607 720-6. tween the New Order leaders and Bung 277-1904; e-mail, [email protected]. The Karna's enduring "ghost," and Indone­ catalog and price list is also available on sian school strikes. The journal concludes SEAP's Website at http://www.arts.cornel// with a complete bibliography of articles seasia. and book reviews published in Indonesia issues 1-60. This bibliography is available on request.

Fa/11996 13 SEAP Faculty

Benedict R. Anderson, Aaron L. Ngampit Jagacinski, senior lecturer in James T. Siegel, professor of llincnkorb Professor of International modern languages anthropology and Asian studies Studies and director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Robert B. Jones, professor emeritus of Keith W. Taylor, associate professor of languages and linguistics Vietnamese cultural studies and associate John H. Badgely, adjunct associate director of the Southeast Asia Program professor emeritus of Asian studies George McT. Kahin, Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Erik Thorbecke, H. Edward Babcock Warren B. Bailey, associate professor of Studies Professor of Economics and Food finance Economics A. Thomas Kirsch, professor of Randolph Barker, professor emeritus of anthropology and Asian studies Julian K. Wheatley, senior lecturer in agricultural economics and Asian studies modern languages Jennifer M. Krier, assistant professor of Thak Chaloemtiarana, associate dean, anthropology John U. Wolff, professor of linguistics director of admissions, College of Arts and Asian studies and director of the and Sciences, associate professor of Asian Stanley J. O'Connor, professor, history Southeast Asia Program studies, and associate director of the of art and Asian studies Southeast Asia Program OliverW. Wolters, Goldwin Smith Robert A. Polson, professor emeritus of Professor Emeritus of Southeast Asian Abigail C. Cohn, associate professor of rural sociology and Asian studies History linguistics Allen Riedy, curator, John M. Echols David K. Wyatt, John Stambaugh Gerard Diffloth, professor of linguistics Collection on Southeast Asia Professor of Southeast Asian History and Asian studies Takashi Shiraishi, associate professor of Martin F. Hatch, associate professor of history and Asian studies music and Asian studies

14 Southeast Asia Program Bulletin Outreach Activities

Penny Dietrich ~

rimary focus ofSEAP's outreach meetings with other area-studies outreach important priority by the federal Depart­ mission is to extend the re­ coordinators are held to plan individual ment of Education. A sources of the program to the and joint projects. And SEAP provides Other ongoing curriculum-develop­ public at large, to those audiences beyond annual program support of the Johnson ment projects include the pilot Cornell. There are many organizations, in­ Museum's Omni curriculum- and collection­ unit produced during the spring of '96 and stitutions, and individuals from schools, based program for ninth-grade classes that a new unit, in progress, on Indonesia. Last museums, the media, businesses, colleges, examines the art and cultures of Southeast winter, SEAP fellow Anne Foster developed publishers, and community centers who Asia. and presented an after-school training pro­ request information and services from the gram for teachers at Oswego High School program to broaden their understanding Teacher Training on contemporary Vietnam. and strengthen their own programs SEAP curriculum-development efforts have throughout the year. As part of Cornell, drawn on the creative and scholarly talents Newsletter and Website SEAP recognizes the ambassadorial role it of many Southeast Asianists and educators Last fall, SEAP Outreach began publica­ plays and often must reach within the uni­ over the last several years. One recent ef­ tion of a semiannual newsletter featuring versity to satisfy its mandate. This year fort, "Who's New in the Neighborhood?" articles by faculty, students, and fellows, SEAP Outreach had the opportunity to was developed to foster understanding of and a list of activities and program courses, learn ways to support the university's out­ the Laotian and Vietnamese cultures of to better inform those friends, colleagues, reach mission more effectively and to inte­ immigrants who reside in the central New alumni, and affiliates about what's new at grate its activities with other departments York area. Curriculum materials for the the Southeast Asia Program. which, like SEAP, strive to make a differ­ project were developed by SEAP graduate The creation of a Web site was made ence regionally, nationally, and abroad. students and affiliates for the Discovery possible through the volunteer efforts of In October 1995, I was one of five Center of the Southern Tier; Cornell's In­ '95-'96 Student Committee chair Patton Cornell representatives chosen to attend a ternational Student and Scholars Office as­ Adams and Siddarth Chandra, Ph.D. can­ national conference at Michigan State Uni­ sociate director, Brendan O'Brian, provided didate in economics. Associate professor versity entitled "Fulfilling Higher invaluable support and resources regard­ Abby Cohn and I worked together last sum­ Education's Covenant with Society: The ing the immigration process. Two teacher­ mer to draft the project and timeline. Now Emerging Outreach Agenda." Funded by training programs based on the unit were those with access to the Internet can gain the Kellogg Foundation, this program ex­ offered this summer, one for elementary information electronically as well as order amined higher education's evolving role in school teachers and the other for postsec­ books through SEAP Publications and relation to public service-in particular, ondary educators. Southeast Asia videos through Media Ser­ how extension knowledge can be used to "Understanding Southeast Asia: Sto­ vices. We are interested in learning about educate, serve, and learn from the com­ ries from the Flow of Life,'' a two-day pro­ what others would like included on the munity. The conference offered views on gram for postsecondary educators, was held SEAP homepage, which can be accessed how to improve SEAP outreach activities in June and featured SEAP professors through the URL http://www.arts.cornell! through dovetailing with other programs Benedict Anderson, Thak Chaloemtiarana, seasia. Our server is located at the arts col­ at Cornell. Stanley J. O'Connor, Keith Taylor, Bur­ lege but we are also linked to the Website Current examples of how SEAP Out­ mese lecturer San San Hnin Tun, Echols for Cornell's Einaudi Center for Interna­ reach is collaborating with other university Collection librarian Royati Paseng Barnard, tional Studies, which carries the informa­ programs includes a recent consultation and numerous graduate students. Programs tion for book and video orders. with Cornell's Department of Plant Sci­ for college-level educators are viewed as an ences on the development of several seg­ ments of a Cooperative Extension 4H elementary curriculum on rice culture, http:/ /www.arts.cor11ell/ seasia which was recently published. Regular

Fn/11996 15 Recent Doctoral Dissertations

Imron Bulkin (city and regional plan­ Micheline Renee Lessard (history). ning). "Infrastructure Requirement under "Tradition for Rebellion: Vietnamese Conditions of Development: The Dynam­ Students and Teachers and Anticolonial ics of Urbanization in Indonesia, 1990- Resistance, 1888-1931" (August 1995). 2020" (August 1995). Kaja Maria McGowan (history of art). Leni Dharmawan (city and regional "Jewels in a Cup: The Role of Containers planning). "Urban Renewal and Housing in Balinese Landscape and Art" (January for the Low Income Group: A Case Study 1996). of Kemayoran, Jakarta" (January 1995). Shawn McHale (history). "Printing, John Wesley Duewel (development Power, and the Transformation of Viet­ sociology). "Peasant Irrigation Social namese Culture, 1920-1945" (May 1995). Organization and Agrarian Change: A Comparative Study of Dharma Tirta Lorena Oropeza (history). "La Batalla Water Users Associations in Lowland Esta Aqui! Chicanos Oppose the War in Central Java." (May 1995). Vietnam" (January 1996).

Anne L. Foster (history). "Alienation and Hildawati Soemantri Siddhartha (his­ Cooperation: European, Southeast Asian tory of art). "The Terracotta Art of and American Perceptions of Anti-Colo­ Majapahit and Archaeology" (January nial Rebellion, 1919-1937" (January 1995). 1995). John Thayer Sidel (government). "Coer­ Wayne A. Frank (animal science). cion, Capital, and the Post-Colonial State: "Comparative Behavior and Herbage Bossism in the Postwar Philippines" Selections of Twelve Domestic Farm (January 1995). Animal Species Foraging Ninety Com­ mon Tropical Plant Species in Leyte, Leshan Tan (anthropology). "Theravada Philippines" (January 1996). Buddhism and Village Economy: A Com­ parative Study in Sipsong Panna of Stephanie Fried (development sociol­ Southwest China" (May 1995). ogy). "Writing for Their Lives: Bentian Dayak Authors and Indonesian Develop­ Yuswandi Arsyad Temenggung (re­ ment Discourse" (August 1995). gional science). "An Interregional Com­ Wilh this issue, the Sou/lmu/ putable General Equilibrium Model for Ali11 Pto,r•m B11ll•ti11 Veni Hadju (nutrition). "The Effects of Indonesia: Measuring the Regional Eco­ rHume• scmian11ual publication after a year and a Deworming on Growth, Appetite, Physi­ nomic Consequences of National Tax half hiatus. Published by 1be cal Fitness, and Physical Activity in Indo­ Policy" (January 1995). Sou1hcas1 Asia Program, Cor11ell Universily, 180 Uris nesian Schoolchildren" (January 1996). Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. Peter Zinoman (history). "The Colonial Produced by the Office of Publications Services: copy Pius Suratman Kartasasmita ( develop­ Bastille: A Social History of Imprison­ edited by Pat Leary; designed ment sociology). "Industry, Social Struc­ ment in Colonial Viet Nam 1862-1940" by Deena Rambaum. ture and Community Welfare: A (January 1996). Prinud on recycled paper. (i) Cornell University is an equal• Comparative Study of Indonesian Dis­ opportunity, affirma1ive-action tricts" (August 1995). educator and employer. 896 2.IM FLP

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