Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism in Southeast Asia

The Editors: Thomas Engelbert and Andreas Schneider are historians working on Vietnam and Cambodia (Engelbert) resp. Laos and Thailand (Schneider). Currently they work as fellows (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter) at Humboldt University Berlin.

Contents: Bernhard Dahm: Ethnic Groups, Colonial Conquest and Nationalism in Sumatra - Vincent J.H. Houben: Communal Conflict in Post-Suharto Indonesia: the Case of Ambon - Mary Somers Heidhues: Who Wants to be Non-Pribumi? The Uses of Parentheses - Sri Kuhnt-Saptodewo: Religion and Identity - Wilfried Wagner: Volkwerdung under the Sign of the Cross. A Protestant Concept of Emerging Nationhood - Annemarie Esche: Nation, Nation-State and Ethnicity (with reference to the Union of Myanmar) - Wilfried Lulei: Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam, Past and Present - Thomas Engelbert: Ideology and Reality. Nationalitätenpolitik in North and South Vietnam and the First Indochina War - Laohoua Cheutching: The Situation of the Hmong and Minority Politics in Laos - Andreas Schneider: Nationalism, National Awakening and Ethnic Approaches in Laos at the End of World War II - Hans Dieter Kubitscheck. A Short Biographical Outline - Bibliography of Hans Dieter Kubitscheck.