Michael Peletz, Ph.D. |
Selected Publications |Fellowships and Grants
Michael G. Peletz received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1973) and his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1983) from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research interests focus on social and cultural theory, gender, sexuality, kinship, law, religion (especially Islam), social history, and modernity, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. Professor Peletz has done extensive fieldwork in Malaysia and has undertaken archival research in Malaysia and England; his research and teaching interests have also involved travel to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Professor Peletz’s most recent book was an ethnographic and historical study of Islamic courts and cultural politics in Malaysia. He spent the 2005–06 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he pursued research on a book project titled Diversity, Legitimacy, and Inequality: Gender Pluralism in Muslim and Buddhist Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times. In the coming years he expects to continue working on gender, the culture and politics of Islamic courts, and some of the other topics mentioned here; he looks forward to working with students and faculty pursuing research on a wide variety of topics and world areas.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSBooksGender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2007. Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1996. Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. Edited with Aihwa Ong A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988. Journal Articles and Chapters in Books“Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times”. Current Anthropology 47(2): 309-340, 2006. “Structure, Cultural Logic, and Transformational Dynamics in the Social Organization of Unstratified Societies: The Work of Raymond C. Kelly”. Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Vol. 16 [Special Issue, “Retrospectives: Works and Lives of Michigan Anthropologists”]:66-105,2006. Co-authored with Bruce M. Knauft. “Islamic Justice, State Law, and Cultural Politics in Indonesia: A Review Article”. Indonesia 80:161-176, 2005. “The King is Dead; Long Live the Queen!”. American Ethnologist 31(1): 39-41, 2005. “Islam and the Cultural Politics of Legitimacy: Malaysia in the Aftermath of September 11th.” In Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. Robert W. Hefner, ed. Pp. 240-272. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. “Discourses of Opposition to Marriage Equality”. Anthropology News 45(6):23-24, 2004. “Reinscribing ‘Asian (Family) Values’: Subject Making, Nation Building, and Judicial Process in Malaysia's Islamic Courts”. Occasional Papers of the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame: Indiana, 2003. “Judicial Process and Dilemmas of Legitimacy and Sovereignty: The Malaysian Case in Comparative Perspective”. In Sovereignty Under Challenge: How Governments Respond. John D. Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds. Pp. 221-258. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. "Ambivalence in Kinship Since the 1940s". In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds. Pp. 413-443. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. “Comment” [on ‘Anthropology and Modernity’, by Joel Kahn]. Current Anthropology, 42(5) :668-669l, 2001. "Comparative and Historical Notes on the 'Great Transformation' among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau". In Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, Robert W. Hefner, ed. Pp.173-200. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. "'Ordinary Muslims' and Muslim Resurgents in Contemporary Malaysia: Notes on an Ambivalent Relationship". In Islam in an Era of Nation States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia. Robert W. Hefner and Patricia Horvatich, eds. Pp. 231-273. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. "Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology". Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 343-372, 1995. "Introduction". In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds. Pp. l-l8. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995. Co-authored with Aihwa Ong. "Ambivalent Hearts and the Arts of Well-Being in Island Southeast Asia". Reviews in Anthropology 23(3): 143-156, 1994. “Neither Reasonable Nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society." Cultural Anthropology 9(2): l33-l76, 1994. [Reprinted in Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, eds. Pp. 76-l23. Berkeley: University of California Press, l995.] "Comparative Perspectives on Kinship and Cultural Identity in Negeri Sembilan". Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 9(1): l-53, 1994. “Knowledge, Power, and Personal Misfortune in a Malay Context". In Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. C. W. Watson and Roy F. Ellen, eds. Pp. l49-l77. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. “Sacred Texts and Dangerous Words: The Politics of Law and Cultural Rationalization in Malaysia ". Comparative Studies in Society and History 35(l):66-109, 1993. "Poisoning, Sorcery, and Healing Rituals in Negeri Sembilan". Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 144(1):132-164, 1988. "The Exchange of Men in Nineteenth-Century Negeri Sembilan (Malaya)", American Ethnologist 14 (3): 449-469, 1987. “Female Heirship and the Autonomy of Women in Negeri Sembilan, West Malaysia." In Research in Economic Anthropology: A Research Annual, Vol. 8, Barry L. Isaac, ed. Pp. 61-101. Greenwich, Conn: JAI Press, 1987. "Siblingship and Social Structure in Negeri Sembilan: Perspectives from Myth, History and the Present." In Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra. Lynn L. Thomas and Franz Von Benda- Beckmann, eds. Pp. 73-109. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 71. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies/Ohio University Press, 1985. "Moral and Political Economies in Rural Southeast Asia: A Review Article." Comparative Studies in Society and History 25(4):731-739, 1983.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (Partial list)National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (Indonesian/Malay), U.S. Department of H.E.W.and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, l975-l976 National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (Indonesian/Malay), U.S. Department of H.E.W. and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, l976-l977 Sigma XI Grant-In-Aid of Research, Sigma XI Scientific Research Society of North America, l977 Rackham Dissertation Grant, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, l977 National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (Indonesian/Malay), U.S. Department of H.E.W. and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, l977-l978 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Indonesian/Malay), U.S. Department of H.E.W.and Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, l978-l979 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Grant, l979-l981 Rackham Block Grant, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, l98l-l982 Smithsonian Institution, Postdoctoral Fellowship, l983-l984 (Declined in favor of teaching position at Colgate University) Grant-In-Aid of Research, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, l987 Picker Research Fellowship, Colgate University, l987-l988 Fulbright Research Fellowship, l987-l988 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, l99l-l992 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, l99l (Declined) Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Grant, l992-93 Faculty Development Council, Colgate University, l998 Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, Small Grant, l998 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1999 National Humanities Center Fellowship [Andrew W. Mellon Fellow], 1999-2000 Pacific Basin Research Center, Grant, 2000-2001 Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, Senior Fellowship, 2000-2001 Colgate University, Major Grant, 2000-2001 Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University, and Pew Charitable Trusts, 2002-2003 The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006 (Declined in favor of fellowship from The Institute for Advanced Study) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Visiting Member Fellowship, 2005-2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1-yr. fellowship, to be activated Jan. 2007)
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