Oceans Unbounded

"Transversing Asia across "Area Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2132181
AutoresBarbara Watson Andaya (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen5
Número4
Fecha de publicación2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJapan focus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1557466007020864
OpenAlexW4410180936
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas59

Recent endorsements of maritime history as an integral part of world history should be central in any attempt to transverse the academic divides separating the study of "South", "East" and "Southeast" Asia (AHA Forum. 2006; Buschmann 2005). Nonetheless, envisaging an interconnected maritime Asia that is not subservient to the boundaries of area studies and modern nations, and yet does not descent to the simplistic and overly general, is a formidable challenge. A number of studies have tracked trading diasporas and economic linkages, but the place of the oceans in the cultures of Asia's littoral societies has received much less attention. It may not be difficult to locate the reasons. Although in simple terms, "maritime history" is the history of human interaction with the sea in all its facets (Finamore 2004, p. 1), most Asianists have reached adulthood located within a nation-state with identifiable territorial borders and carry inherent intellectual biases that privilege a land-based perspective

Archaeology · China · East Asia · Economic geography · Geography · Asian Studies and History · Environmental Science · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · International Maritime Law Issues · Oceanography