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Concepts of Order in Southeast Asia and Micronesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

William H. Alkire
William H. Alkire
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University of Victoria, British Columbia
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In this article a system of ordering space found among the people of the central and western Caroline Islands of Micronesia will be described, the fundamental concepts of which bear a striking resemblance to particular regulative principles found among various Southeast Asian peoples. If a genetic connection is accepted for these parallels the form taken by Southeast Asian cultures after contact with ‘Hindu/Buddhist’ peoples can be interpreted as a natural outgrowth of concepts already basic to these cultures before such contact. The ethnographic information presented here, therefore, is directed to the comparative analysis of the culture history of Southeast Asia and Oceania and should be viewed in conjunction with the recent work of linguists and archaeologists on this topic (e.g. Benedict, 1966, 1967; Grace, Solheim and Chang, 1964).

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Conceptualization of Order
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , September 1972 , pp. 484 - 493
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1972

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