While following the probes of foreign individuals into various
obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting
and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to
investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon
the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of
the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to
bear on the existing information. The product of this effort, as it
is encompassed in this volume, is not an attempt at the definitive
study of any of the topics. It is rather a series of speculations
on the directions feasible for the further study of the Southeast
Asian past. As such, the answers proposed in these essays are
really questions. Are the ideas presented here true within the
specific historical contexts for which they have been developed? If
so, can we use these ideas, or variations of them, to interpret the
history of other parts of Southeast Asia? If not, what other ideas
may be brought to bear on these situations in order to understand
them? The ultimate aim of this volume is thus a challenge to the
profession at large not only to criticize what we have done, but
also to go beyond our postulations and create new ones. [xi]
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