TY - JOUR
T1 - Indonesian studies at the Australian National University
T2 - Why so late?
AU - Reid, Anthony
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Australian National University was founded in 1948 to develop 'subjects of national importance to Australia'. Its Research School of Pacific Studies ivas intended specifically to make good the ignorance of the areas to Australia's north which had proved costly during the Pacific War. In Melbourne there were a few people like Herb Feitb, mostly students of MacMahon Ball, who immediately saw the challenge of Indonesia. The question that needs answering is why the mandate of ANU did not produce a school or centre of Southeast Asian Studies, or even much significant individual scholarship on Indonesia, until the late 1960s. Why did Australia not build in the twenty jears after the war anything remotely comparable to the Centres the Americans established at Cornell, Yale, Michigan, Wisconsin and Berkeley? How, nevertheless, did the ANU gradually find its way to becoming a centre without a Centre.
AB - The Australian National University was founded in 1948 to develop 'subjects of national importance to Australia'. Its Research School of Pacific Studies ivas intended specifically to make good the ignorance of the areas to Australia's north which had proved costly during the Pacific War. In Melbourne there were a few people like Herb Feitb, mostly students of MacMahon Ball, who immediately saw the challenge of Indonesia. The question that needs answering is why the mandate of ANU did not produce a school or centre of Southeast Asian Studies, or even much significant individual scholarship on Indonesia, until the late 1960s. Why did Australia not build in the twenty jears after the war anything remotely comparable to the Centres the Americans established at Cornell, Yale, Michigan, Wisconsin and Berkeley? How, nevertheless, did the ANU gradually find its way to becoming a centre without a Centre.
KW - Australian National University
KW - Heinz Arndt
KW - Indonesian studies
KW - JW Davidson
KW - Research School of Pacific Studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956345552&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
SN - 0815-7251
VL - 43
SP - 51
EP - 74
JO - RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
JF - RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
IS - 1
ER -