The Geographical Ditribution and Cluster Analysis of The Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

对东南亚和大洋洲文化的分类，有不同取向的人类学家一次又一次地尝试，其中大多数都是直观的。但是，东南亚和大洋洲的文化在地域上是有限的，只涵盖了物质文化或社会组织等特定的文化领域。我们试图用统计方法对东南亚和大洋洲的文化进行整体分类，涵盖了所有主要的文化领域。我们有相当清晰的东南亚和大洋洲150个民族单位的树状图，这是通过对这些民族100种文化特征的共享程度进行聚类分析得出的。东南亚和大洋洲的文化可分为两大类：一是东南亚文化，二是大洋洲文化。东南亚宏观文化群由两大类组成：一是中南半岛-核岛，I-B阿萨姆邦--边缘岛状。I-A印度支那-核岛群分为两个亚群：I-A-I印度支那-南中国和I-A-II东南亚高等文化。I-B阿萨姆邦-边缘岛屿组分为两个亚组：I-B-I东南亚中亚园艺家和I-B-II周边块茎园艺家。II海洋宏观组分为两组：II-A海洋园艺家和II-B饲草人。II-A大洋园艺家分为两个亚组：II-A-I美拉尼西亚园艺家和II-A-II密克罗尼西亚-波利尼西亚园艺家。II-B亚族指的是没有可与II-A-I和II-A-II相比较的细分，主要由澳大利亚原住民组成。这一大体轮廓在亚群水平上有七个主要类群，与人类学家传统和直观地认为这些地区的文化分组相当吻合。然而，进一步的后果引发了一些需要解释的问题。部分，即紧接在小组下面的级别，大部分仍然是可以理解的，尽管有些已经不容易理解。

Classification of the cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania has been attempted over and over again by anthropologists with varying orientations, most of which have been intuitive ones. But they were regionally limited and covered only a certain field of cultures such as material culture, or social organization.We tried to classify the cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania in its entirety, using statistical procedures, and covering all the major fields of cultures.We have quite intelligible tree-diagram of 150 ethnic units of Southeast Asia and Oceania, which was produced by cluster analysis on the degrees of sharing of 100 cultures traits by these peoples.Cultures of Southeat Asia and Oceania fall into two macro-groups:I Southeast Asian, and II Oceanic.I Southeast Asian macro-group consists of two groups: I-A Indochina-Nuclear Insular, and I-B Assam-Marginal Insular. I-A Indochina-Nuclear Insular group is divided into two subgroups: I-A-i Indochina-South China, and I-A-ii Southeast Assian High Cultures. I-B Assam-Marginal Insular group is divided into two subgroups: I-B-i Southeast Asian Central Horticulturalists, and I-B-ii Peripheral Tubers Horiticulturalists.II Oceanic macro-group falls into two groups: II-A Oceanic Horticulturalists and II-B Foragers. II-A Oceanic Horticulturalsits are divided into two subgroups: II-A-i Melanesian Horticulturalists and II-A-ii Micronesian-Polynesian Horticulturalists. II-B Foragers indicate no subdivision comparable to II-A-i and II-A-ii, and consists in the main of Australian aborigines.This Broad Outline, with seven principal clusters at the level of subgroup, conforms rather well with what anthropologists traditionally and intuitively have thought of the grouping of cultures in these areas. Yet further ramifications raise some questions which call for explanation. Sections,i.e.,the level immediately below subgroups, are mostly still apprehensible, althouth some are already not easy to understand.