Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from March 1995

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from March 1995

Change and continuity in Southeast Asian studies.
March 1, 1995... Forty-odd years ago, when I became involved in the study of Southeast Asia, it appeared to be a new region, struggling to assert itself in the political world from the lingering ties of colonialism and in the academic world from those who would...

Networks and synchronisms in Southeast Asian history.
March 1, 1995... It is truly not easy to write a "well integrated" history of Southeast Asia. If today, anybody feels such a necessity, the procedure is far from obvious, and thus the utility of using a special issue such as the present one to take stock of the...

The contribution of Weberian sociology to studies of Southeast Asia. (Max Weber)
March 1, 1995... Earlier than in the Anglo-Saxon world, Weber's sociological studies attracted attention among social scientists in the Netherlands. It was particularly in connection with the Southeast Asian world that parallels were suggested with the rise of...

Indigenous urbanism: class, city and society in Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1995... While Southeast Asia revolves around its cities, scholarship spins off into disciplines that ignore this fact. In a region that has known cities for two millennia, where even remote peoples have shaped themselves to or against urban rule,...

Evolving archaeological perspectives on Southeast Asia, 1970-95.
March 1, 1995... Changing Paradigms in Archaeology, 1970-95, and Their Impact in Southeast Asia In the late 1960s, archaeological theory underwent a period of rapid and significant change. A group of scholars became known as progenitors of an approach termed...

On telling a story of Vietnam in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
March 1, 1995... My essay in celebration of the Journal's anniversary sketches what may be the concluding chapter in a study of Vietnam in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries when the Tran dynasty reigned (1226-1400). In 1225 the Tran family overthrew the...

The "classical" in Southeast Asia: the present in the past.
March 1, 1995... Introduction When historians refer to the "classical" period in Southeast Asia, they usually mean the era roughly between the ninth and fourteenth centuries A.D. When they speak of the "classical" states, they are referring most often to the...

Southeast Asia in the early modern period; twenty-five years on.
March 1, 1995... The identity of "Southeast Asia" has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published.(1) Much less controversy has...

The changing landscape of the past: new histories in Thailand since 1973.
March 1, 1995... Introduction Historical studies in Thailand have been closely related to the formation of the nation since the late nineteenth century, and until recently the pattern of the past in this elitist craft changed but little. It presented a...

Historical research in Vietnam: a tentative survey.
March 1, 1995... The communist take-over of South Vietnam in 1975 presents a certain resemblance to what happened two hundred years before, when the Trinh lords in the North overran the Nguyen's polity in the South by 1775, seizing the territories that had been...

Believing is seeing: perspectives on political power and economic activity in the Malay world 1700-1940.
March 1, 1995... Introduction Western historiography assumes a chronological linear unfolding of progress, and early Western commentators on Asian societies tended to see them as stagnant variants of earlier phases in European history, as feudal despotisms and...

Humane literacy and Southeast Asian art.
March 1, 1995... Humane literacy? An essay on undergraduate education? Isn't it a solecism to broach such concerns in this special issue of The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies where contributors are invited to take stock of the current state of scholarship in...

Current trends in economic history of Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1995... New winds are blowing in the writing of the economic history of Southeast Asia. The traditional Eurocentric perspective of the colonial economy is gradually giving way to a more Asian perspective stressing similarities and mutual links within the...

Sufism in Southeast Asia: reflections and reconsiderations.
March 1, 1995... In 1961 I published in this Journal a paper on the Islamization of peninsular and insular Southeast Asia.(1) It was a paper I had presented to the first meeting of the conference of historians of Southeast Asia organized in January of that year...

Population and the family in Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1995... Demographic Transition in Southeast Asia The decade of the 1960s was one of growing concern among demographers with the acceleration of the world's population growth, resulting largely from the sharp decline in mortality rates in the early...

Social aspects of forestry in Southeast Asia: a review of postwar trends in the scholarly literature.
March 1, 1995... This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among...