Social Anthropology of Politics in Island Southeast Asia

本项目旨在对东南亚地区的习惯法与领导力进行社会人类学研究。这里的东南亚民族是指台湾、菲律宾、印尼、马来西亚等地的原住民和华人，在语言上属于南岛语族和普通话语族。每个语言群体具有相似的文化特征，但其政治制度和民族相互关系的历史背景因国而异。我们的研究框架既不能被称为对每个族群的民族学研究，也不能被称为世界范围的跨文化研究，而是在特定的中等规模文化区域内的比较研究。东南亚社会整合与领导力形成的过程不仅是一种社会互动的结果，而且是一种重要的社会问题，共同的价值体系和象征性的宇宙观通过它得以表达。参与这个项目的学者们的目的是收集关于每个国家的地方政治进程和族群功能的数据，以分析在现代化的强烈影响下社会整合和民族国家形成的各个方面。为了进行比较研究，我们将我们的项目定为多国联合研究，我们可以通过良好的团队合作和频繁的研究信息交流来完成我们的目的。结果将在一年内从菲律宾国家博物馆公布。

The purpose of this project is to carry out the social anthropological study on the customary law and leadership in Southeast Asia. Here, Southeast Asian peoples means the ethnic groups including the native people and chinese of Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, who belong linguistically to the Austronesian and Mandalin. Each linguistic group share similar cultural traits but their historical background about political systems and ethnic mutual relationships differ from country to country. The framework of our study can be termed neither as an ethnological study of each ethnic group nor as a world-wide cross-cultural study, rather it is a comparative study within a specified middle-scale cultural area. The process of social in tegration and formation of leadership in Southeast Asia is not just a result of social inter action but an important social matter, with which a shared value system and symbolic cosmoligy is expressed. The aim of the scholars involved in this project is to collect data on the process of local politics and function of ethnicity in each country to analyze various aspect of social integration and formation of nation-stats under the strong infulences of modernization. To carry out the comparative study, we made our project as a multi-countries joint research and we could complete our purpose with good teamwork and frequent exchange of informations about out study. The result will be published from the National Museum of the Philippines within one year.