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134 Review Article Difficult Synthesis: Recent Trends in Malay Political Sociology and History Roger Kershaw Institute of Education, Brunei Some Reflections on History - . I wonder how many of the now numerous professional historians of Southeast Asian nationality who (as is usually the case) specialise in the history of their own region, share my inkling that the most negative legacy of the "Western historical tradition" is not that of "Orientalism".' The Eurocentric perceptions and colonial bias of yesteryear were easy enough to identify and eliminate, even without the energetic critiques of radical scholars of various shades in Western universities. In any case, some Southeast Asian historians may feel that all that is needed here is a series of balancing perspectives on their past. What is arguably more constricting is a feature of Western historical scholarship which Southeast Asian doctoral students in Australia, Britain and , the United States are not merely exposed to, passively, as they study the existing literature for their subject, but are under pressure, actively, to conform to as a condition of admission to the international historical fraternity. I refer to the contemporary sharp division of identity between historians and social scientists and in
Asian Journal of Social Science – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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