Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Volume 54, Issue 2
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  • The Longhouse as Trade Hub in Inland Borneo:
    Sarawakʼs Riverine Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
    Kyoko Sakuma
    2017 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 153-181
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: April 22, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.54.2_153
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    Since the Age of Commerce, the importance of forest products from Borneo, an archipelago in Southeast Asia, has been well known. The development of Sarawak and North Borneo, independent of Labuan, was a slow process. By the early 1880s, Sarawak was outstripping its Bornean neighbors in the volume of jungle products. Many studies in the human and social sciences have examined jungle and forest products, and historians and anthropologists, in particular, have focused on this area. However, the impact of riverine trade in forest products on the hinterlands that produced the primary commodities is not clear. This paper focuses on Long Terawan, a longhouse community in the Middle Tutoh River―in northern Sarawak―which was one of the biggest indigenous riverine trade hubs of inland Borneo in the late nineteenth century. It takes an anthropological approach to explore the riverine trade in forest products that played an important role in the formation of a trade-hub longhouse and built a wide network centered on the longhouse. The analysis was conducted with the help of door-to-door interviews with villagers about lineage, migration history, myth, and subsistence, and a collection of historical data sourced mainly from the Sarawak Gazette in the research area.
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  • Everyday Activities of Support Groups for HIV-Positive People in Northern Thailand:
    Observations Based on the Production of a Documentary Film (Weaving the Web of Life Together Today and for Tomorrow)
    Riyo Naoi
    2017 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 182-204
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: April 22, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.54.2_182
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    The objective of this paper is to examine the evolving activities of support groups for HIV-positive people in Northern Thailand. The study is based on observations made during the authorʼs documentary film production process. HIV-positive people have been studied in both academic papers and films, and this paper examines both. Previous research on HIV support groups has examined topics such as self-governance [Tanabe 2008; 2012] and HIV-positive communities. However, few studies have looked at the issue from an everyday activities perspective after 2010, and there are no clear details regarding how people in these communities manage everyday life.
    　　This paper also examines how the relatedness that was newly formed through the production of the film, Weaving the Web of Life Together Today and for Tomorrow, resulted in an HIV support group. In this context, a comparative analysis of two groups, an HIV support group under public hospital management and an independent grassroots support group, is conducted. In conclusion, the paper posits that the creation of living space is essential for a support group to maintain its relations. A living foundation for HIV-positive people is needed to construct a network through cooperative work and everyday conversation. This paper explores the process of creating relationships through the production of a documentary film.
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  • Unending Development:
    An Analysis of the Current Status of Development Targeting Post-Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers the Mlabri
    Shu Nimonjiya
    2017 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 205-236
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: April 22, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.54.2_205
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    The aim of this paper is to examine the current situation of development (phattana) targeting the Mlabri, who are the only known (post-)nomadic hunter-gatherers in Northern Thailand, in order to explore why the development efforts have not met with much success. Unlike the other well-known hill tribes (chao khao), the Mlabri finally caught the eye of the Thai government in the mid-1980s when the hill tribe problems (panha chao khao) were settled. Because of this historical fact, we need a new viewpoint totally different from what the previous studies have discussed. In my own fieldwork among the Mlabri, I have found that their development has a remarkable feature, “unending development.” It is interesting to note that development is hampered not only by Thai officials but also by a neighboring ethnic group, the Hmong, and even the Mlabri themselves. This paper tries to explore the historical background peculiar to the Mlabri and to examine why their development does not have an end, by focusing on the different actors and their concerns.
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  • Spiritual Beliefs and Eschatological Salvation of the Lao:
    An Analysis of the Four Palm Leaf Manuscripts and Words of Holy Men during the Early Twentieth Century
    Ryota Wakasone
    2017 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 237-260
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: April 22, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.54.2_237
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