The full scope of Lekon’s ambition comes into relief in the final chapter, ‘Conclusion: Bringing globalization back in’. Abandoning what has been, despite its theoretical armature, a largely historical narrative, Lekon attempts to account for the fact that Hadhramaut changed from a segmentary and patrimonial society to a socialist one — unlike the capitalist trajectories of the disparate modern nations to which the Hadhramis had migrated across the Indian Ocean. Somewhat rushed, this final argument strives to link the range and scope of the preceding chapters into an intervention in the theories of globalisation. A compelling idea, the execution is not quite achieved. Nevertheless, this does little to detract from the highly beneficial survey of the Hadhramis across the Indian Ocean of the preceding three hundred pages. SAUL W. ALLEN Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World heritage sites in comparative perspective Edited by VICTOR T. KING Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 464. Maps, Tables, Illustrations, Bibliography. doi:10.1017/S0022463416000576 The economic and political weight acquired since the 1990s by the Asian, and more specifically, Southeast Asian heritage industry is reflected in the proliferation of academic publications, conferences and research projects on this subject. The latest example of this trend is the volume under review: the product of a four-year research project funded by the British Academy and the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom, which focused on cultural and natural sites in the region that have been inscribed on UNESCO’s coveted World Heritage List. When this project ended in 2013, there were thirty-six such sites (in the two intervening rounds of inscription four more regional sites were inscribed: in Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam in 2014, and Singapore in 2015). Each country in the region also listed sites for future possible inscription as well as cultural practices, which UNESCO cate- gorises as ‘intangible cultural heritage’— even though intangibility does not preclude commercialisation. This weighty volume contains 15 case studies in addition to the editor’s introduc- tion and Michael Hitchcock’s postscript. The contributing authors deal with Angkor, Cambodia (Keiko Miura); Ayutthaya, Thailand (Roberto Gozzoli); Luang Prabang, Laos (chapters by Annabel Vallard and Sigrid Lenaerts); Hoi An and Phong Nha-Ke Bang Nature Reserve, Vietnam (chapters by Michael J.G. Parnwell and Vu Hong Lien); Vigan and Palawan, the Philippines (chapters by Erik Akpedonu and Johanna K. Froß); Melaka, Penang and the Kinabalu and Gunung Mulu Natural Parks, Malaysia (chapters by, respectively, Victor T. King, Ooi Keat Gin, and Janet Cochrane); Muara Jambi, Bali, Prambanan and Borobodur, and four natural parks in Java, Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara and Papua, Indonesia (chapters by, respectively, 152 BOOK REVIEWS https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463416000576 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Cambridge University Press, on 02 Feb 2017 at 12:16:38, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at