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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia
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Oral History and Official History
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Memories of Violence
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Oral Tradition and Heritage
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Reviews
“The volume demonstrates the rich variety of oral history work taking place across Southeast Asia by historians, social scientists, local academics, activists and foreign researchers. … As a collection, these contributions highlight the diversity of oral history work being undertaken in the region and provide much-needed insights into the peculiarities of oral history in Southeast Asia.” (Nicole Lamb, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 40 (2), June, 2016)
'A pioneering attempt - the first I know of - to systematically explore the knowledge only available through oral accounts as opposed to written texts, official history, and newspapers. A brilliant and original invitation to re-imagine the craft of history itself and to re-tell the history of Southeast Asia as it is spoken and remembered by those who lived it.' - James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA
'Southeast Asian regimes better think twice before becoming too comfortably smug in their belief that their citizens have been successfully (re)molded into docile subjects. As this wonderful collection of 'stories from below' indicate, individuals, families and communities from all over the region express opinions different from if not critical of official narratives. These are tales that have been ingeniously preserved and protected from repeated attempts by the state to make people forget about them.' - Patricio N. Abinales, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA
About the authors
Stephen Dobbs is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. He is author of The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002 (2002) and co-author of Engineers Engaging Community: Water and Energy (2013).
Ernest Koh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore (2010) and Diaspora At War: The Chinese of Malaya between Empire and Nation 1937-1945 (forthcoming in 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oral History in Southeast Asia
Book Subtitle: Memories and Fragments
Editors: Kah Seng Loh, Stephen Dobbs, Ernest Koh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311672
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31166-5Published: 19 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45703-8Published: 19 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31167-2Published: 17 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 205
Topics: Asian History, Historiography and Method, Cultural History, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Australasian History