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Article: Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives. Edited by Anthony Reid. Tempe, Arizona, USA: Monograph Series Press, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 2003. Soft cover: 375pp.
That Southeast Asia exists would appear to be a necessary condition for the study of Southeast Asia to be a respectable adult occupation. Contestations about the region seem however to gain currency through an alluring vagueness surrounding the term "exists" more than the ontological status of the region itself. It is the history of the term that decides the subject more than the objective existence of a place called Southeast Asia. Let us take the example of ...