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Book Reviews 155 BOOK REVIEWS Mohammed Halib and Tim Huxley, An Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies. London and New York: Tauris Academic Series/Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. 264 pages. This collection of articles aims at providing advanced students of Southeast Asian Studies with a background to the research and scholarship that has contributed to an understanding of Southeast Asia's past and present. The volume is the first to introduce the development of various disciplinary approaches to the study of Southeast Asia from their earliest undertakings to the present state of the disciplines. However, as editors Mohammed Halib and Tim Huxley point out in their introductory chapter, Southeast Asian Studies at universities, like other area studies are interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary programmes. This presents a pedagogical dilemma because their courses are mostly taught by disciplinary specialists. This collection of essays itself reflects that an integrated multidisciplinary approach to the study of Southeast Asia has yet to be developed. In this work, each discipline is presented by appropriate specialists in separate chapters, including anthropology, history, literature, geography, sociology, economics, politics, and international relations. An Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies is particularly helpful as a bibliographical reference, as the authors point out http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

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Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 26 (1): 155 – Jan 1, 1998

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Publisher
Brill
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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1568-4849
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1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/030382498X00120
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155 BOOK REVIEWS Mohammed Halib and Tim Huxley, An Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies. London and New York: Tauris Academic Series/Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. 264 pages. This collection of articles aims at providing advanced students of Southeast Asian Studies with a background to the research and scholarship that has contributed to an understanding of Southeast Asia's past and present. The volume is the first to introduce the development of various disciplinary approaches to the study of Southeast Asia from their earliest undertakings to the present state of the disciplines. However, as editors Mohammed Halib and Tim Huxley point out in their introductory chapter, Southeast Asian Studies at universities, like other area studies are interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary programmes. This presents a pedagogical dilemma because their courses are mostly taught by disciplinary specialists. This collection of essays itself reflects that an integrated multidisciplinary approach to the study of Southeast Asia has yet to be developed. In this work, each discipline is presented by appropriate specialists in separate chapters, including anthropology, history, literature, geography, sociology, economics, politics, and international relations. An Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies is particularly helpful as a bibliographical reference, as the authors point out

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