Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Anthropology
rprovenc@juno.com
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Ronald Provencher (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1968) was trained as a four-fields (cultural/social, linguistics, prehistory, and biological) anthropologist; but his research has focused on cultures of Southeast Asia, particularly in the ethnic Malay communities of Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Field research has included studies of social and cultural change in urban and rural Malay communities, Temuan and Malay folk medicine, Malay and Thai personality and social organization, ethnic relations in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, and social and political commentary in Malay humor.
Selected Publications
2004 “Malays” In Carol R. Ember & Melvin Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures, vol. 2 – Cultures. HRAF Press. Pp. 804-814.
2001 “Malaysia’s Mad Magazines: Images of Females and Males in Malay Culture. In John A. Lent (ed) Illustrating Asia. Curzon Press.
1999 “Order in the Malay House: Malay kin categories, ethnic ranks, and the unconventional behavior of toyols” In Structuralism’s Transformations: Order and Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies – Papers Written in Honor of Clark E. Cunningham. Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, Arizona State University. Pp. 299-319.
1994 “Anthropology in the Malayan Peninsula and North Borneo: orientalist, nationalist and theoretical perspectives. In K. Mulliner & J.A. Lent (eds) Brunei and Malaysian Studies: Present Knowledge and Research Trends on Brunei and on Malaysian Anthropology, Mass Communication, and Womens’ Studies (Studies in Third World Societies Nr.54). Pp. 47-71.
1988 “National culture and ethnicity in Kuala Lumpur. In G.H. Krausse (ed), Urban Communities in Southeast Asia, Volume 2: Political and Cultural Issues, Asian Studies Monograph Series, Nr. 37. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service. Pp. 133-149.