Staff Profiles

 

Rajah, Ananda
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion; Ethnicity and the State; Comparative Anthropology of Mainland Southeast Asian Societies; Kinship; Social Organisation; Symbolic Systems.

Teaching Areas
Introduction to Anthropology; Singapore Society; Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia; Ethnic Relations; Cross-Cultural Research in Southeast Asia.

 

Selected Publications
-Burma: Protracted Conflict, Governance and Non-Traditional Security Issues. IDSS Working Papers on Non-Traditional Security Issues in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. (2001)
-Making and Managing Tradition in Singapore: the National Day Parade. In Our Place in Time: Exploring Heritage and Memory in Singapore, edited by K.W. Kwok, C.G. Kwa, B. Yeoh and L. Kong. Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society. (1999)
-(with Amitav Acharya) Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia. Special Issue of the Southeast Asian Journal Of Social Science 27, no. 1. (1999)
-(with Amitav Acharya) Introduction: Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Journal Of Social Science 27, no.1. Special Issue on Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia, pp. 1-6. (1999)
-Southeast Asia: Comparatist Errors and the Construction of a Region. Southeast Asian Journal Of Social Science 27, no.1. Special Issue on Reconceptualizing Southeast Asia, pp. 41-53. (1999)

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