Ecology, Culture, Social Organization, and State Formation in Southeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7195752
AutoresRobert L Winzeler, Ronald Cohen (0000-0001-5030-8335), Robert Hunt (0000-0001-8312-7776), Karl L Hutterer, Michel Izard, Michel Panoff, Fred W Riggs, Justus M Van Der Kroef, Malcolm C Webb
Año1976
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas623-640
Fecha de publicación1976-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/201800
OpenAlexW2260892049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas21

In this paper I call attention to the significance of Southeast Asia to discussions of the nature of state formation. While it is now apparent that certain phases of cultural evolution came early in Southeast Asia, the state was a late and, in some respects, incomplete development. Southeast Asian states do not appear to have developed into the fully centralized, highly stratified, totalitarian regimes held to typify other regions of Asia, such as China or India. I suggest that this is not easily accounted for in terms of recent comparative theories of state formation or in terms of the interpretations contained in the writings of Southeast Asianists. I suggest finally that features of Southeast Asian social organization provide the most useful focus of analysis for explaining what did and did not occur in Southeast Asia and then discuss the question of how these features may have come into being

Archaeology · Biology · China · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social organization · Sociology · Southeast asia · Southeast Asian studies · State (computer science · State formation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Ecology · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies