TY - BOOK AU - Warren, James Francis, TI - Pirates, prostitutes and pullers: explorations in the Ethno- and social history of Southeast Asia / SN - 9789711011932 AV - DS 526.7 .W253 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Quezon City PB - New Day Publishers KW - Chinese KW - Southeast Asia KW - Ethnohistory KW - Piracy KW - Pirates KW - Prostitutes KW - Prostitution KW - Rickshaw men N1 - Originally published: Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2008 N2 - human trafficking; the global political economy; urbanization and colonial policy and practice. Professor Warren utilizes documentary sources, oral traditions, photographs and paintings to provide not only an erudite example of the exploratory power of historical ethnography but also new conceptual frameworks for our understanding of Southeast Asian history; Pirates, Prostitute and Pullers reveals the lively history of Southeast Asia's underclass-the peasants, urban coolies, prostitutes, maritime raiders and sea nomads who played a formative role in the region's remarkable transformation. The sixteen essays in this collection of 'culture' ER -