Civilizing the Margins - Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities Samuel B. Griffith It begins with a painting

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers

They had just been pretending

Renowned for breeding German shepherds

and is determined to keep them apart

Civilizing the Margins - Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities Samuel B. Griffith It begins with a paintingDiscusses the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic minorities in eight countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Once targeted for intervention, people such as the Orang Asli of Malaysia and the "hill tribes" of Thailand often become the subject of programs aimed at radically changing their lifestyles, which the government views as backward or primitive. Several chapters highlight the