書名：Between Frontiers:
Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
著者：Ishikawa, Noboru
発行元：Singapore/Copenhagen/Athens:
NUS Press/NIAS Press/Ohio University Press
出版年：2010年3月
Noboru Ishikawa grounds his discussion of this phenomenon in materials gathered during two years of archival research and fieldwork in the border zone that separates Malaysian from Indonesian territory in western Borneo. His book explores the national order that is implemented when the state materializes its territoriality, asking how the state maintains its national space, and how people strategically situate themselves as members of a local community, nation, and ethnic group in a social field designated as national territory. By examining such questions in the context of concrete circumstances where a village boundary coincides with a national border, he is able to delineate the dialectical relationship between nation-state and borderland society both as history and as process.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Ishikawa has a deep and long-term knowledge of his subject. The mixture of historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches is inspiring, and Ishikawa mixes these genres skilfully. A detailed and
impressive thick description permeates the book from the first page to the last, but it is also theoretically sophisticated. This combination sets it apart from quite a few other studies that accomplish one or the
other but not both."
Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University)