History, Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

O W Wolters

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ISBN: 9789812300287

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The collection of essays in this volume was first published in 1982 by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. In this revised edition, another 180 pages have been added which should be read as an extended commentary on the earlier volume. It not only provides new perspectives but also takes into account some developments in the field of earlier Southeast Asian studies since 1982. For customers in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia.

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Preliminary Pages

Introduction

1. Some Features of the Cultural Matrix

2. Historical Patterns in Intra-Regional Relations

3. Towards Defining Southeast Asian History

4. Local Cultural Statements

5. Local Literatures

6. Conclusion

Appendix A: Miscellaneous Notes on "Soul Stuff"

Appendix B: Six Vietnamese Poems of the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century

Appendix C: Kakawin and Hikayat

Postscript I: Revisiting the "Region"

Postscript II: Again a Cultural Matrix

Postscript III: Among the Mandalas

Postscript IV: Some Further Southeast Asian Perspectives

Postscript V: Local Writing

Postscript VI: "Regional Studies" in the 1990s

Appendix 1: A "Hindu" Man of Prowess

Appendix 2: A Sample of Gender Relations at the Apex of Vietnamese Society in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Appendix 3: Reading Bas-Relief on Two Javanese Candi

Bibliography, Index, Map

Subjects:HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

Number of Pages: 272

Imprint:

ISEAS / Cornell

Publication Date: 36776

Format: PB