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Volume 87 – No. 3

Southeast Asia and Comparative-Historical Analysis: Region, Theory, and Ontology on a Wide Canvas

Erik Martinez Kuhonta
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Keywords: Southeast Asian studies, comparative-historical analysis, qualitative methodology, ontology, theory, area studies

DOI: 10.5509/2014873485

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This article seeks to assess the contributions and key characteristics of comparative-historical analysis in the field of Southeast Asian studies. It does so by examining three specific issues that emerge from this methodological genre: the conceptualization of the region of Southeast Asia, the role of theory, and the emphasis on macro structural ontology. These issues are analyzed in three disciplines: political science, history, and anthropology. The article shows that dialogue among comparative-historical researchers is most evident within the disciplines of political science and history. In anthropology, important comparative-historical work has also been produced but it has been less engaged within the comparative-historical canon. In reviewing these three disciplines’ shared analytical concerns as well as contributions to comparative-historical analysis, the article makes an implicit case for greater interdisciplinary engagement across the disciplines.

東南亞與比較-歷史分析:一幅寬廣畫布上的地區、理論及本體論

本文旨在評價東南亞研究領域中比較-歷史分析的貢獻和關鍵特征。為此本文檢視了這個方法學類型中產生的三個具體問題:東南亞地區的概念化、理論的作用以及對宏觀結構本體論的強調。本文分別在政治學、歷史學以及人類學三個學科對這些問題加以分析。本文表明,从事比較-歷史分析的研究者之間的對話在政治學和歷史學科中最為顯著。 人類學也有重要的比較-歷史分析的成果,但其較少在學科內進行比較-歷史分析方面的經典理論性對話。通過檢視評估三個學科分析共享的關注點,以及各學科對比較-歷史分析所作的貢獻,本文也表明這些學科間需要更多跨學科交流與互動。

Translated from English by Li Guo

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