Women in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
(Short List By Country)
compiled by Julie Shackford-Bradley
December, 1996
Burma
Aung-Thwin, Michael 1984. "Hierarchy and Order in Pre-Colonial Burma." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 224-232.
F.K. Lehman 1984. "Freedom and Bondage in Traditional Burma and Thailand." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 233-244.
Cambodia
(author??) "Royally Sponsored Human Sacrifices in Nineteenth Century Cambodia: The Cult of nak ta Me Sa (Mahisasuvamardini) at Ba Phnom." Journal of the Siam Society. Vol 62, 2 (July 1974), 207-222.
Chakravarti, Adhir L 1970-71. "The Caste System in Ancient Cambodia." Journal of Ancient Indian History, 4:14-59.
Chandler, David P. "Normative Poems (Chbap) and Pre-Colonial Cambodian Society." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), pp?.
Ebihara, May 1984. "Societal Organization in 16th and 17th Century Cambodia" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 280-295.
Kirsh, A. Thomas 1976. "Kinship, Genealogical Claims, and Societal Integration in Ancient Khmer Society: An Interpretation. in Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D.G.E. Hall, eds C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters. Ithaca: Cornell University press.
Maxwell, Stewart 1964. The Naga King's Daughter. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.
O'Sullivan, Kevin 1962. "Concentric Conformity in Ancient Khmer Kinship Organization." Academia Sinica, 13: 87-96.
Indonesia/Java
Carey, Peter and Vincent Houben 1987. "Spirited Srikandis and Sly Sumbadras: The Social, political and economic role of women at the Central Javanese Courts in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries." in Indonesian Women in Focus: Past and Present Notions. Eds Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Anke Niehof. Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications.
Colless, Brian E. 1975. "Majapahit Revisted: External Evidence on the Geography and Ethnology of E. Java in the Majapahit Period." JMBRAS, Vol. 48, 2 (October 1975), 124-161.
Groeneveldt, W. P. 1960. Historical Notes on Indonesia and Malaysia Compiled from Chinese Sources. Jakarta: Bhratara.
Hostetler, Jan 1982. "Bedhaya Semang: The Sacred Dance of Yogyakarta." Archipel 24, (127-142).
Jones, Antoinette M. Barrett 1984. Early Tenth Century Java from the Inscriptions (A Study of Economic, Social and Administrative Conditions in the First Quarter of the Century). Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications (KITLV, 107).
Jordaan, Roy E. 1984. "The Mystery of Nyai Lara Kidul, Goddess of the Southern Ocean." Archipel, 28, (99-117).
Jordaan, Roy E. 1987. "Skin Disease, Female Ancestry, and Crops. in Indonesian Women in Focus: Past and Present Notions. Eds Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Anke Niehof. Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications.
Sears, Laurie Jo 1984. "Epic Voyages: The Transmission of the Ramayana and the Mahabarata from India to Java." in Aesthetic Tradition and Cultural Transition in Java and Bali. Eds Morgan, Stephanie and Laurie Jo Sears. Madison, WI: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin.
Steenbrink, Karel 1993. Dutch Colonialism and Indonesian Islam: Contacts and Conflicts 1596-1950. (Trans: jan Steenbrink and Henry Jansen). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Stoler, Ann Laura 1991. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia." Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Ed, Micaela diLeonardo. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Malay World
Andaya, Barbara Watson 1993. To Live as Brothers Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Thailand
Gesick, Lorraine, ed. 1984. Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. New haven: Yale University Press.
Gesick, Lorraine 1995. In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell.
Griswold, A. B. and Prasert na Nagara 1977. "Epigraphic and Historical Studies, No. 17: The Judgements of King Man Ray. "Journal of the Siam Society , Vol 65, 1 (January 1977), 137-160.
Kirsch, A. Thomas 1984. "Cosmology and Ecology as Factors in Interpreting Early Thai Social Organization." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 253-265.
Swearer, Donald K. 1974 "Myth, Legend, and History in the Northern Thai Chronicle." Journal of the Siam Society, 62, 1 (81-82).
Wyatt, David 1984. "Laws and Social Order in Early Thailand." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), pp?.
Vietnam
Haines, David W. 1984. "Reflections of Kinship and Society under Vietnam's Le Dynasty" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 307-314.
Ta Van Tai 1981. "The Status of Women in Traditional Vietnam: A Comparison of the Code of the Le Dynasty (1428-1788) with the Chinese Codes." Journal of Asian History 15 (97-145).
John Whitmore 1984. "Social Organization and Confucian Thought in Vietnam." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 296-306.
Wolters, O. W. 1974. "Le Van Hu'u's Treatemnt of :y Than Ton's Reign (1127-1137). in Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D.G.E. Hall, eds C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Woodside, Alexander 1984. Medieval Vietnam and Cambodia: A Comparative Comment. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol XV No. 2 (September), 315-319.
General
Shah, Shalini 1995. The Making of Womanhood: Gender Relations in the Mahabarata. New Delhi: Manohou.
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