Civilizing the Margins - Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities Samuel B. Griffith They had just been pretending

They had just been pretending

In this groundbreaking book

The cat lives in an opaque box with a fiendish device that randomly feeds it either food

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers

Civilizing the Margins - Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities Samuel B. Griffith They had just been pretendingDiscusses the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities in eight countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Once targeted for intervention, people such as the Orang Asli of Malaysia and the "hill tribes" of Thailand often become the subject of programs aimed at radically changing their lifestyles, which the government views as backward or primitive. Several chapters highlight the