1. Some features of the cultural matrix -- 2. Historical patterns in intra-regional relations -- 3. Towards defining Southeast Asian history -- 4. Local cultural statements -- 5. Local literatures -- 6. Conclusion. appendices. A: Miscellaneous notes on "Soul Stuff" and "Prowess". B: Six Vietnamese poems of the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century. C: Kakawin and Hikayat. I. Revisiting the "region". II. Again a cultural matrix. III. Among the Mandalas. IV. Some further Southeast Asian perspectives. V. Local writing. VI. "Regional studies" in the 1990s. Appendices. 1: A "Hindu" man of prowess. 2: A sample of gender relations at the apex of Vietnamese society in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 3: Reading Bas-Relief on two Jaqvanese Candi
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Published in cooperation with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-256) and index
