User:Austronesier/Island vs. Maritime Southeast Asia
Overview[edit]
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Island Southeast Asia[edit]
- Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Y. Andaya (2015). A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830. Cambridge University Press.
Island Southeast Asia is divided into 4 zones:
- Western Archipelago: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, northwest and southwest coast of Borneo
- Central Archipelago: Java, Madura, Bali, Lombok, southern Borneo
- Northern Archipelago: Philippines, northern and northeastern coasts of Borneo
- Eastern Archipelago: "from the island of Sumbawa and southeastern Borneo in the west, eastward to the coastal areas of western New Guinea, northward to Mindanao and the islands of Maluku, and southward to the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusatenggara)"
The inclusion of the Malay Peninsula and coastal areas of western New Guinea clearly points to a culturally based definition.
They use the term "maritime Southeast Asia" on five occasions (if I can believe the OCR-ed version that I have got hold of), but without any definition. In all five instances, they could have just as well used "Island Southeast Asia" without contradicting their scope of the term.
Bulbeck, F 2014, 'Island Southeast Asia: Neolithic', in Claire Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 4090-4096pp.
A definition is given at the beginning of this article:
"Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) comprises the tropical islands lying in between mainland East Asia and Taiwan to the northwest and Australia and New Guinea to the southeast. The western islands lie on a shallow continental shelf, the Sunda Shelf, and were connected to mainland East Asia during the Pleistocene. The eastern islands that have been separated from the mainland and from each other by deep marine troughs include the Philippines (east of Palawan), Sulawesi, northern Moluccas, and the Nusa Tenggara (“southeast”) islands."
A more concise definition appears early in the main text of the article:
"ISEA is defined here as the triangle of islands
lying between the Philippines, Aru (southern Moluccas), and Sumatra, excluding the Malay Peninsula."
There is also a map (pg 4093) which is quite clear in excluding the Malay peninsula and any part of the island of New Guinea.
In the same volume there are papers titled: (a) "Island Southeast Asia: Rock Art" by Jean-Michel Chazine which (a) does not define "Island Southeast Asia" (b) is not totally clear (from context) on the definition used but it does refer to "continental Malaysia", which could be taken to mean that this is outside the ISEA region. (b) "Insular Southeast Asia at the Interface of Continent-Archipelago: Geography and Chronology", but with no definition of the geographic extent intended, though it could be read as consistent with Bulbeck.