Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia Borneo Politics of Cross-Border Living in

Politics of Cross-Border Living in Southern Laos–Central Vietnam—Vatthana Pholsena

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Both historical and social anthropological approaches are used to explore ethnic and religious identities and integration in Southeast Asia

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The essays boldly offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the perspectives of history

Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia Borneo Politics of Cross-Border Living inEdited by Monica Janowski and Fiona Kerlogue 2007. 304 pp, 15x23 cm Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so called kin ties. These are often based at least partly on shared