Kahins Testimonies

Published posthumously, a memoir written by the founding father of Indonesia studies in the US, is a must-read for researchers.

February 10, 2004

SOUTHEAST ASIA: A TESTAMENT
Author: George McTurnan Kahin
Publisher: Routledge Curzon, London and New York
xxii + 350 pages

AMONG Western academics, especially those with huge reputations, writing memoirs is a tradition. However, not many such books are written by researchers on Southeast Asia or, more specifically, Indonesia. As far as I can recall, only Clifford Geertz who is considered anthropology ambassador on social sciences, published his memo

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