Toward a Paradigm for Paradox: Observations on the Study of Social Organization in Southeast Asia
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Vol. 15 (2) , 320-329
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002246340001256x
Abstract
It is curious and probably quite significant that the nature of social organization in Southeast Asia has proven to be so elusive a quarry for several generations of academicians. Hundreds of thoughtful and scholarly books and articles have addressed this issue or some portion of it in one way or another, and yet our work remains on the whole strangely cautious. A sense of uneasiness hovers over our discussions. We reveal some discontent with both the textual and the conceptual underpinnings of our endeavors. To a greater or lesser extent we all appear to share David Wyatt's misgivings that we may “have it all wrong”. One might well ask why this should be so after all these years of effort.Keywords
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