Barbara Watson Andaya
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3621901 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Watson Andaya |
| NOMBRES | Barbara Watson |
| APELLIDO | Andaya |
| FIRMA | ANDAYA B W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Globalization
Paving the road ahead
This Forum reflects the stimulating conversations we had as participants in a roundtable at the 2023 Boston meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The discussion centred on the position of women (as both contributors and subjects) in competing visions of modernity in Southeast Asia. Our overall goals were to explore how women contributed to these visions and the extent to which their hopes were realised. In the process, numerous questions …
One Crowded Moment of Glory
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 92, Part 2, No. 317, December 2019
Cash Cropping and Upstream-Downstream Tensions
Nation-states, Citizenship, Globalization and Regionalism
Seas, oceans and cosmologies in Southeast Asia
This article discusses the changing spirit world of maritime communities in Southeast Asia by differentiating 'oceans' from 'seas' and by linking historical evidence to modern anthropological studies. Since the lives of seagoing peoples are fraught with unpredictability, propitiation of local sea spirits was a traditional means of ensuring good fortune and protection. As long-distance voyages expanded in the early modern period, the global reach …
Glocalization and the Marketing of Christianity in Early Modern Southeast Asia
The expansion of European commercial interests into Southeast Asia during the early modern period was commonly justified by the biblical injunction to spread Christian teachings, and by the "civilizing" influences it was said to foster. In focusing on areas where Christianity gained a foothold or, in the Philippines and Timor Leste, became the dominant faith, this article invokes the marketing concept of "glocalization", frequently applied to the…
Malaysia’s Original People
Reviewed by: Malaysia’s Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli ed. by Kirk Endicott Barbara Watson Andaya Malaysia’s Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli Kirk Endicott (ed.) + Singapore. NUS Press, 2016. i–xiii; 536 pp. maps, tables, illustrations. ISBN 978-9971-69-861-4 This impressive collection is fittingly dedicated to two pioneers in the development of Orang Asli studies—Robert Denton and Geoffrey …
Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits
Water in many different forms and contexts is of central significance in Southeast Asia, and these differences are reflected in the vast range of spirits and deities. Despite wide variation, the most obvious distinction is between spirits associated with fresh and salt water. Those linked to water associated with fertility are typically regarded as female and sympathetic to human requests for assistance. By contrast, the spirits who inhabit turbu…
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Studies in Thai and Southeast Asian Histories by Charnvit Kasetsiri
Christianity in Modern Southeast Asia
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast Asia is located in a global context. A discussion …
Gathering ‘Knowledge’ in the Bay of Bengal
In 1992 the poet and independent researcher Anne Bulley published the letters of a youth named John Adolphus Pope who at the age of fourteen became Third Officer on an English country ship, the Princess Royal . These letters have been little used by historians of Southeast Asia, but they are an extraordinarily rich source for this period. On his arrival in India Pope was recruited by the Orientalist Sir William Jones to collect information and sp…
Historical Perspectives on Prostitution in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Kajian-kajian tentang pelacuran di Indonesia,seperti halnya penelitian gender dan perempuan pada umumnya, lebih terfokus pada masa abad ke-20. Kajian-kajian tersebut memfokus pada konteks lokal yang spesifik dan kurang melakukan perbandingan secara lebih luas. Tulisan ini mencoba memberikan dasar historis dan komparatif yang lebih mendalam untuk mendiskusikan pelacuran di Indonesia dengan menempatkannya dalam kerangka perdagangan global di Asia T…
New voices from Southeast Asian women
Historians may have come late to the study of women and gender in Southeast Asia, but when these three books are placed along a historiographical spectrum one can only be impressed at how far the field has moved in approach and methodology. Exploiting previously untapped sources that emanate from very different sites — a Dutch East India Company courtroom, the women's quarters of a Malay palace, the privacy of a Javanese home — the authors open u…
Response to Prasenjit Duara, “Asia Redux”
In his provocative essay, Prasenjit Duara argues that prior to the nineteenth century, the web of maritime trade networks infused the ill-defined area we call “Asia” with a genuine coherence, providing a conduit for cultural flows that readily permitted interactive relationships and the mutual adoption of new beliefs and practices. By the late nineteenth century, however, the imperial powers sought to ensure their global dominance by creating reg…
Between Empires and Emporia
Studies of church connections to commercial interests in pre-nineteenth-century Southeast Asia have focused on the Catholic venture in the Spanish Philippines. This article uses a broader and more ecumenical framework to incorporate eastern Indonesia into this discussion by comparing the economic involvement of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch missionaries and church personnel. It contextualizes differences in church resources, secular oversight, a…
Studying Women and Gender in Southeast Asia
Historians of Southeast Asia have begun to consider the history of women and gender relatively recently, even though the complementary relationship between men and women has long been cited as a regional characteristic. In the last twenty years or so the field has witnessed some important advances, most notably in the study of the twentieth century but also in the preceding periods as well. Generalizations advanced in the past are now being refin…
Oceans Unbounded
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 formida…
History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia
In what must be regarded as a preliminary foray into the subject, this paper considers the topic of 'headhunting' in South East Asia in relation to three separate but interconnected historiographical questions. First, to what extent is it possible to make comparative generalizations across regions separated by the academic creation of area studies? Second, what methods are available for reconstructing the past of poorly documented and remote comm…
Aspects of Warfare in Premodern Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, Historical Periodization and Area Studies
Localising the Universal
This essay suggests that one reason for the success of Theravāda Buddhism in early Southeast Asia was its appeal to women. The maternal metaphor, a prominent theme in Buddhist texts, was both familiar and relevant to the lives of all females, regardless of their social standing. Translated into a local environment, the interaction between motherhood and merit-making provided new opportunities for lay women to display their piety and strengthened …
Facets of Power and Its Limitations
Oceans Unbounded
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 formida…
From Rūm to Tokyo
Japan's admittance of foreign trade after 1854 and the dramatic reforms of the Meiji Restoration brought a relatively unknown country to the attention of the international community.In the ensuing decades, European statesmen, initially skeptical of Japanese efforts towards modernization, came to recognize that any formulation of diplo matic policy in the Far East must take Japan into account.A somewhat similar reappraisal of the balance of world …
The Cloth Trade in Jambi and Palembang Society during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Anyone who has used Dutch East India Company (VOC) records2 will know that they are often stubbornly resistant to the historian's questions.The vast corpus of informa tion they contain, however, has provided the basis for a number of detailed studies of regional history in the Indonesian archipelago.What such studies have shown is that generalizations regarding social and economic change during the seventeenth and eigh
Seas, oceans and cosmologies in Southeast Asia
This article discusses the changing spirit world of maritime communities in Southeast Asia by differentiating 'oceans' from 'seas' and by linking historical evidence to modern anthropological studies. Since the lives of seagoing peoples are fraught with unpredictability, propitiation of local sea spirits was a traditional means of ensuring good fortune and protection. As long-distance voyages expanded in the early modern period, the global reach …
History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia
In what must be regarded as a preliminary foray into the subject, this paper considers the topic of 'headhunting' in South East Asia in relation to three separate but interconnected historiographical questions. First, to what extent is it possible to make comparative generalizations across regions separated by the academic creation of area studies? Second, what methods are available for reconstructing the past of poorly documented and remote comm…
The Changing Religious Role of Women in Pre-Modern South East Asia
(1994). The Changing Religious Role of Women in Pre-Modern South East Asia. South East Asia Research: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 99-116
Facets of Power and Its Limitations
Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits
Water in many different forms and contexts is of central significance in Southeast Asia, and these differences are reflected in the vast range of spirits and deities. Despite wide variation, the most obvious distinction is between spirits associated with fresh and salt water. Those linked to water associated with fertility are typically regarded as female and sympathetic to human requests for assistance. By contrast, the spirits who inhabit turbu…
Localising the Universal
This essay suggests that one reason for the success of Theravāda Buddhism in early Southeast Asia was its appeal to women. The maternal metaphor, a prominent theme in Buddhist texts, was both familiar and relevant to the lives of all females, regardless of their social standing. Translated into a local environment, the interaction between motherhood and merit-making provided new opportunities for lay women to display their piety and strengthened …
Historicising “Modernity” in Southeast Asia
The term “modernity” implies Western influence and the weakening of beliefs and practices associated with traditional culture. Although it is increasingly used in reference to contemporary Southeast Asia because of the region's current economic growth, there seems little room for historical perspectives. This paper takes up the idea that if we broaden our understanding of modernity in Southeast Asia so that it is not restricted to recent history,…
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Women and Economic Change
Women in Southeast Asia are traditionally said to have occupied a “high status”, especially in comparison with China and India. As yet, however, little research has been undertaken on the pre-modern period. This paper examines the development of the pepper trade in Sumatra during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explores the manner in which this new cash crop affected the position of women. Prior to the introduction of pepper, female…
Response to Prasenjit Duara, “Asia Redux”
In his provocative essay, Prasenjit Duara argues that prior to the nineteenth century, the web of maritime trade networks infused the ill-defined area we call “Asia” with a genuine coherence, providing a conduit for cultural flows that readily permitted interactive relationships and the mutual adoption of new beliefs and practices. By the late nineteenth century, however, the imperial powers sought to ensure their global dominance by creating reg…
Between Empires and Emporia
Studies of church connections to commercial interests in pre-nineteenth-century Southeast Asia have focused on the Catholic venture in the Spanish Philippines. This article uses a broader and more ecumenical framework to incorporate eastern Indonesia into this discussion by comparing the economic involvement of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch missionaries and church personnel. It contextualizes differences in church resources, secular oversight, a…
Nation-states, Citizenship, Globalization and Regionalism
Southeast Asia, Historical Periodization and Area Studies
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On
The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was …
The Role of the Anak Raja in Malay History
The history of the Malay world in the eighteenth century is characterised by a constantly shifting balance of power, extreme flexibility in the political patterns, and an ongoing search for strong friends and advantageous allies. Malay and European sources relating to the period contain an often overwhelming amount of information concerning seemingly endless conspiracies, broken treaties, negotiations, and re-alignments. Yet from this maze of det…
The Role of the Anak Raja in Malay History
The history of the Malay world in the eighteenth century is characterised by a constantly shifting balance of power, extreme flexibility in the political patterns, and an ongoing search for strong friends and advantageous allies. Malay and European sources relating to the period contain an often overwhelming amount of information concerning seemingly endless conspiracies, broken treaties, negotiations, and re-alignments. Yet from this maze of det…
From Rūm to Tokyo
Japan's admittance of foreign trade after 1854 and the dramatic reforms of the Meiji Restoration brought a relatively unknown country to the attention of the international community.In the ensuing decades, European statesmen, initially skeptical of Japanese efforts towards modernization, came to recognize that any formulation of diplo matic policy in the Far East must take Japan into account.A somewhat similar reappraisal of the balance of world …
Perak
A History of Malaysia
Formed in 1963, the Federation of Malaysia comprises the long peninsular land mass which separates the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea, together with the northern quarter of Borneo but excluding the small state of Brunei. Peninsular Malaysia, covering 131,794 square kilometres, is made up of eleven states: Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor (with the Federal Capital Territory of Kuala Lumpur), Melaka, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Tre…
A History of Malaysia
The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al-Nafis)
The Cloth Trade in Jambi and Palembang Society during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Anyone who has used Dutch East India Company (VOC) records2 will know that they are often stubbornly resistant to the historian's questions.The vast corpus of informa tion they contain, however, has provided the basis for a number of detailed studies of regional history in the Indonesian archipelago.What such studies have shown is that generalizations regarding social and economic change during the seventeenth and eigh
To Live As Brothers
Writing the History of Southeast Sumatra
In 1971 O. W. Wolters noted that "studies of Southeast Asian history must always take into account how the world was seen from a specific place."1Reading these two books, both concerned with south Sumatra, is a powerful reminder of the complexities which underlie Wolters' apparently simple observation.For "seeing the world from a specific place" imme diately raises the questions "whose place," "why that place and not another," "which world is bei…
The Changing Religious Role of Women in Pre-Modern South East Asia
(1994). The Changing Religious Role of Women in Pre-Modern South East Asia. South East Asia Research: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 99-116
Upstreams and Downstreams in Early Modern Sumatra
Women and Economic Change
Women in Southeast Asia are traditionally said to have occupied a “high status”, especially in comparison with China and India. As yet, however, little research has been undertaken on the pre-modern period. This paper examines the development of the pepper trade in Sumatra during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explores the manner in which this new cash crop affected the position of women. Prior to the introduction of pepper, female…
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On
The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was …
Telling Lives, Telling Story
Adapting to Political and Economic Change
Over fifty years ago the young Dutch scholar, J.C. Van Leur, bemoaned the lack of attention accorded the eighteenth century in Indonesia. A primary reason for this neglect, Van Leur contended, was the tendency to equate indigenous historical patterns with those of Europe, and to view this period as ‘merely a sequel’ to the seventeenth century, the Golden Age of Dutch power. The problem was compounded because the Dutch East India Company (VOC) rec…
Historicising “Modernity” in Southeast Asia
The term “modernity” implies Western influence and the weakening of beliefs and practices associated with traditional culture. Although it is increasingly used in reference to contemporary Southeast Asia because of the region's current economic growth, there seems little room for historical perspectives. This paper takes up the idea that if we broaden our understanding of modernity in Southeast Asia so that it is not restricted to recent history,…
The Unity of Southeast Asia
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Facets of Power and Its Limitations
Southeast Asia, Historical Periodization and Area Studies
Localising the Universal
This essay suggests that one reason for the success of Theravāda Buddhism in early Southeast Asia was its appeal to women. The maternal metaphor, a prominent theme in Buddhist texts, was both familiar and relevant to the lives of all females, regardless of their social standing. Translated into a local environment, the interaction between motherhood and merit-making provided new opportunities for lay women to display their piety and strengthened …
Aspects of Warfare in Premodern Southeast Asia
History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia
In what must be regarded as a preliminary foray into the subject, this paper considers the topic of 'headhunting' in South East Asia in relation to three separate but interconnected historiographical questions. First, to what extent is it possible to make comparative generalizations across regions separated by the academic creation of area studies? Second, what methods are available for reconstructing the past of poorly documented and remote comm…
Oceans Unbounded
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 formida…
Studying Women and Gender in Southeast Asia
Historians of Southeast Asia have begun to consider the history of women and gender relatively recently, even though the complementary relationship between men and women has long been cited as a regional characteristic. In the last twenty years or so the field has witnessed some important advances, most notably in the study of the twentieth century but also in the preceding periods as well. Generalizations advanced in the past are now being refin…
Between Empires and Emporia
Studies of church connections to commercial interests in pre-nineteenth-century Southeast Asia have focused on the Catholic venture in the Spanish Philippines. This article uses a broader and more ecumenical framework to incorporate eastern Indonesia into this discussion by comparing the economic involvement of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch missionaries and church personnel. It contextualizes differences in church resources, secular oversight, a…
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