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Book Reviews The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2005, pp. 85/97 Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change CHIA LIN SIEN (ed.) Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003 452pp., ISBN 981-230-119-4, US$39.90 (cloth); ISBN 981-230-117-8, US$24.90 (paper). Although it is marketed as a geography textbook, this review of five decades of change in Southeast Asia will be of interest to a wider field, including scholars in anthropology and resource management. It includes the perspectives of a formidable array of geographers who have worked in the region for many years, and is presented as a ‘distillation of their combined expertise on the region’ (p. xxii), together comprising ‘a synthesis of the essential elements of the region’ (p. xxii). The decades under review have seen dramatic change in Southeast Asia, and consideration of the ‘processes and trends that transformed the human and physical landscapes of the region’ is certainly an ambitious project. The result is a volume that covers an enormous breadth of material, and relies on a relatively conservative positivist approach. The Introduction by editor Chia Lin Sien and Martin Perry addresses the formation of Southeast Asia as a region, suggesting that the ‘ambiguity’ (p. 1) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2005, pp. 85/97 Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change CHIA LIN SIEN (ed.) Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003 452pp., ISBN 981-230-119-4, US$39.90 (cloth); ISBN 981-230-117-8, US$24.90 (paper). Although it is marketed as a geography textbook, this review of five decades of change in Southeast Asia will be of interest to a wider field, including scholars in anthropology and resource management. It...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2005, pp. 85/97 Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change CHIA LIN SIEN (ed.) Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003 452pp., ISBN 981-230-119-4, US$39.90 (cloth); ISBN 981-230-117-8, US$24.90 (paper). Although it is marketed as a geography textbook, this review of five decades of change in Southeast Asia will be of interest to a wider field, including scholars in anthropology and resource management. It includes the perspectives of a formidable array of geographers who have worked in the region for many years, and is presented as a ‘distillation of their combined expertise on the region’ (p. xxii), together comprising ‘a synthesis of the essential elements of the region’ (p. xxii). The decades under review have seen dramatic change in Southeast Asia, and consideration of the ‘processes and trends that transformed the human and physical landscapes of the region’ is certainly an ambitious project. The result is a volume that covers an enormous breadth of material, and relies on a relatively conservative positivist approach. The Introduction by editor Chia Lin Sien and Martin Perry addresses the formation of Southeast Asia as a region, suggesting that the ‘ambiguity’ (p. 1)

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