Benda Prize Shortlist
From: Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>
Date: Feb 24, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: [Vsg] Fw: H-SEASIA: Benda Prize Shortlist
From: Paul H. Kratoska [ npupaulk@nus.edu.sg
<mailto:npupaulk@nus.edu.sg> ]
Chair, Southeast Asia Council, (US) Association for Asian Studies
The Benda Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding newer scholar of
Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization.
Members of the Benda Prize Committee for the current year are Ward
Keeler (Chair), Ben Kerkvliet, Panivong Norindr, and Natasha
Hamilton-Hart. On behalf of the Southeast Asia Council of the (US)
Association for Asian Studies, I am pleased to announce that the
following books have been shortlisted for the Benda Prize:
Mary Callahan. Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma. Cornell
University Press and Singapore University Press, 2004.
Shawn McHale. Print and Power: Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in
the making of modern Vietnam. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Marc Perlman. Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of
Music Theory. University of California Press, 2004.
Andrew Weintraub. Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java.
Ohio University SE Asia Series No. 110/ Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies (Singapore), 2004.
Wilson, Andrew. Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in
Colonial Manila, 1880-1916. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
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