Oral History in Southeast Asia

Chapter 1 Oral History and Fragments in Southeast Asia

Chapter 2 Family Memories as Alternative Narratives to the State’s Construction of Singapore’s National History

Chapter 3 “You Have Picked a Wrong Candidate”: Latent Fragments and Reasonable Narratives of the British Military Withdrawal from Singapore

Chapter 4 Remembrance, Nation, and the Second World War in Singapore: The Chinese Diaspora and Their Wars

Chapter 5 On the Fluidity and Stability of Personal Memory: Jibin Arula and the Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines

Chapter 6 Narratives of the “Red Barrel” Incident: Collective and Individual Memories in Lamsin, Southern Thailand

Chapter 7 Memory, Trauma, and Nation: Contestation over the Batang Kali Massacre in Malaysia

Chapter 8 The Anthropologist as Heroine: Contemporary Interpretations of Memory and Heritage in an Indonesian Valley

Chapter 9 Oral History, Heritage Conservation, and the Leprosy Settlement: The Sungai Buloh Community in Malaysia

Chapter 10 Memory, Heritage, and the Singapore River: “It Is Like a Dead Snake”