The Structure of Southeast Asian History: Some Preliminary Observations
- 1 March 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Southeast Asian History
- Vol. 3 (1) , 106-138
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0217781100000582
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to suggest some major and pertinent questions regarding the nature, structure and problems of Southeast Asian history, rather than to provide ready-made answers to them. I am well aware that the very positing of such questions may appear premature in view of the youthfullness — not to say the woefully underdeveloped nature — of Southeast Asian historiography, particularly in the United States. Yet in a sense this innocence of youth may be an appropriate excuse for asking whither we are bound in our search; another, more pragmatic rationalization can be found in the undeniable fact that the teaching of ‘Southeast Asian history’, in which we are willy-nilly engaged, demands that such questions be asked, if not authoritatively answered.Keywords
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