General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Political Functionaries in Rural Malaysia: Leaders or Middlemen? -- Rivers' Tent in Southeast Asia: Problems of Ethnicity, Relative Status, and Empathy in Fieldwork -- The Administration of the Aboriginal Tribes of Western Malaysia -- Ethnics and Ethics in Southeast Asia -- On Knowing Who You Are: Intraethnic Distinctions Among the Akha of Northern Thailand -- Structure, Function, and Ideology of a Karen Funeral in Northern Thailand -- Ethnic Outmarriage Rates in Singapore: The Influence of Traditional Sociocultural Organization -- Vietnamese Women: Their Roles and Their Options -- Social and Cultural Change of Japanese and Chinese in Thailand -- Monastic Education, Social Mobility, and Village Structure in Cambodia -- Yao (Iu Mien) Supernaturalism, Language, and Ethnicity -- Malay Migration to Kuala Lumpur City: Individual Adaptation to the City -- Tourism, Culture Change, and Culture Conservation in Bali -- Matrilineal Societies in Southeast Asia: Examples from Highland Vietnam -- Some Filipino (Cebuano) Social Values and Attitudes Viewed in Relation to Development (A Cebuano Looks at Utang-Na-Loob and Hiyâ) -- The Economic Importance of Children in a Javanese Village -- Problems in Comparison of Kinship Systems in Island Southeast Asia -- Cultural Anthropology in the Philippines - 1900-1983: Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.