Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia (Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monographs)

ISBN 10: 0938692941 / ISBN 13: 9780938692942

Published by Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2011

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Synopsis:

This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity. Their members make their livings as nomadic hunter-gatherers, shifting cultivators, sea nomads, and peasants embedded in market economies. While political anarchy and radical equality appear in many societies as utopian ideals, these societies provide examples of actually existing, viable forms of “anarchy.” This book documents the mechanisms that enable these societies to maintain their life-ways and suggests some moral and political lessons that those who appreciate them might apply to their own societies.

About the Author: Thomas Gibson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. He began fieldwork among the Buid of Mindoro, Philippines, in 1979, and among the Makassar of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 1988. Kenneth Sillander is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. He has done fieldwork among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo since 1993.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and...
Publisher: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good