Newsletter 42

Newsletter 42

October 2006

2Director's note: Taking over...
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)


1 & 4 Illegal but licit Itty Abraham
3The borderlands of legality Willem van Schendel
5Beyond hills and plains: rethinking trade, state and society in the upper Mekong borderlands Andrew Walker
6Smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier Eric Tagliacozzo
7Deep pockets: notes on the Indonesian cockfight in a globalising world Johan Lindquist
8-9Hawala Roger Ballard
10The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons Nicolas Florquin
11The rumour of trafficking Diana Wong
12-13Transnational migration brokerage in southern China Li Minghuan
13Beware of the data Melvin Soudijn
14Cash cows: milking Indian students in Australia Michiel Baas
15When the Korean Wave ripples Roald Maliangkay
16Crossing boundaries: Bangladeshi sex workers in Calcutta Malini Sur
17Women and borders in militarised northeast India Paula Banerjee
18-19The mysterious whereabouts of the cut-pieces: dodging the film censors in Bangladesh Lotte Hoek
20-21Conflict and illegality as a way of life: the paradox of Burma Martin Smith


23Books received
24-25A personal account of what I did during my stay at IIAS, or why I remained a cultural anthropologist Satoshi Nakagawa
26Filming fire rituals in Nepal Bal Gopal Shrestha and Wendy van Wilgenburg
27The resource curse: oil-based development in Central Asia Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
28-29History and the inequality predicament David Ludden
30A Manchad grammar Suhnu Ram Sharma
30The lure of (prosodic) typology Bert Remijsen
31Creating a database for Tibeto-Burman languages Katia Chirkova
32Forest commons vs the state? Thomas Sikor and Tran Ngoc Thanh
33International Convention of Asia Scholars 5
34IIAS fellows
35IIAS research
36-37Announcements
38-39International conference agenda

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