Book reviews

Reviews from Aseasuk News no. 45 (2009)

·      Expressing Islam: religious life and politics in Indonesia

·      A history of Christianity in Indonesia

·      Land in transition: reform and poverty in rural Vietnam

·      Malaya’s secret police 1945-60: the role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency

·      Lost goddesses: the denial of female power in Cambodian history

·      Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: place and mobility in the cosmopolitan periphery

·      Childbirth and tradition in Northeast Thailand. Forty years of development and cultural change

·      Southeast Asian lives: personal narratives and historical experience

·      Families in Asia. Home and kin. 2nd edn.

·      The state in Myanmar

·      Ethnic relations in Malaysia: harmony and conflict

·      The economy of Brunei Darussalam: perspectives and insights

·      Tearing apart the land: Islam and legitimacy in southern Thailand