Book Reviews

Christoph Antons (ed.); Law and development in East and South-East Asia (Adriaan Bedner) David B. Dewitt, Carolina G. Hernandez (eds); Development and security in Southeast Asia (vol. 1 & 2) (Freek Colombijn) Lily Kong, Brenda S.A. Yeoh; The politics of landscape in Singapore; Constructions of ‘nation’ (Ben Derudder) Andrew Hardy; Red hills; Migrants and the state in the highlands of Vietnam (Hans Hägerdal) Hanneman Samuel, Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds); Indonesia in transition; Rethinking ‘civil society’, ‘region’, and ‘crisis’ (david Henley) S. Margana; Pujangga Jawa dan bayang-bayang kolonial (Mason Hoadley) Karel E.M. Bongenaar; De ontwikkeling van het zelfbesturend landschap in Nederlandsch-Indie: 1855-1942 (Gerry van Klinken) Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern; Humors and substances; Ideas of the body in New Guinea (Michael Lieber) Wu Xiao An; Chinese business in the making of a Malay state, 1882-1941 (Loh Wei Leng) Mikihiro Moriyama; Sundanese print culture and modernity in 19th-century West Java (Julian Millie) Yunita T. Winarto; Seeds of knowledge; The beginning of integrated pest management in Java (Simon Platten) Jelle Miedema, Ger Reesink; One head, many faces; New perspectives on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of New Guinea (Anton Ploeg) Christopher R. Duncan (ed.); Civilizing the margins; Southeast Asian government policies for the development of minorities (Nathan Porath) Rosario Mendoza Cortes, Celestina Puyal Boncan, Ricardo Trota Jose; The Filipino saga; History as social change (Portia L. Reyes) Stephen Dobbs; The Singapore River; A social history, 1819-2002 (Victor R. Savage) Michael Wood; Official history in modern Indonesia; New Order perceptions and counterviews (Henk Schulte Nordholt) Claudio O. Delang (ed.); Living at the edge of Thai society; The Karen in the highlands of northern Thailand (Nicholas Tapp) Andrew C. Willford, Kenneth M. George (eds); Spirited politics: Religion and public life in contemporary Southeast Asia (Bryan S. Turner) Hans Straver, Chris van Fraassen, Jan van der Putten (eds); Ridjali: Historie van Hitu; Een Ambonse geschiedenis uit de zeventiende eeuw (Edwin Wieringa) Z.J. Manusama; Historie en sociale structuur van Hitu tot het midden der zeventiende eeuw (Edwin Wieringa) Edwin Jurriëns; Cultural travel and migrancy; The artistic representation of globalization in the electronic media of West Java (Tim Winter) In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI), no. 162 (2006), no: 1, Leiden