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@article{ART002533282},
author={Stephen C. Druce},
title={The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2017},
volume={9},
number={2},
pages={7-34},
doi={10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7}

TY - JOUR
AU - Stephen C. Druce
TI - The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2017
VL - 9
IS - 2
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 7
EP - 34
SN - 2092-738X
AB - Various models have been presented to describe early Southeast Asian political formations that draw on both indigenous and imported Indic ideas. The most influential of these are the “Mandala” (Wolters 1968, 1982, 1999), “Galactic” (Tambiah 1976), “Negara” (Geertz 1980), and Anderson’s 1972 “The idea of power in Javanese culture.” This paper represents an initial attempt to compare the salient features of these models with historical and archaeological data from South Sulawesi where, exceptionally and importantly, societies developed independently of Indic ideas. South Sulawesi is unique in being the only region of maritime Southeast Asia where there are sufficient written and oral sources, often substantiated by archaeological data, to document the social evolution of its society from scattered, economically self-sufficient communities with ranked lineages practicing swidden agriculture to large political units (kingdoms) constructed around indigenous cultural and political concepts with economies based on wet-rice agriculture. This wealth of data provides us with a much more detailed picture of the emergence, development and support structures of early kingdoms than found in the models, which makes South Sulawesi of fundamental importance in understanding the social and economic evolution of pre-Indic influenced Austronesian societies in Maritime Southeast Asia.
KW - Austronesian;South Sulawesi;Indic;Wolters;mandala
DO - 10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7
ER -

Stephen C. Druce. (2017). The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms. SUVANNABHUMI, 9(2), 7-34.

Stephen C. Druce. 2017, "The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.9, no.2 pp.7-34. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce "The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms" SUVANNABHUMI 9.2 pp.7-34 (2017) : 7.

Stephen C. Druce. The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms. 2017; 9(2), 7-34. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce. "The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms" SUVANNABHUMI 9, no.2 (2017) : 7-34.doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce. The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms. SUVANNABHUMI, 9(2), 7-34. doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce. The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms. SUVANNABHUMI. 2017; 9(2) 7-34. doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce. The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms. 2017; 9(2), 7-34. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7

Stephen C. Druce. "The decentralized Austronesian polity: Of Mandalas, Negaras, Galactics, and the South Sulawesi Kingdoms" SUVANNABHUMI 9, no.2 (2017) : 7-34.doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.2.7