Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disciplines and area studies in the global age, Southeast Asian reflections / Goh Beng-Lan -- Post-imperial knowledge and pre-social science in Southeast Asia / Wang Gungwu -- From the education of a historian to the study of Minangkabau local history / Taufik Abdullah -- Scholarship, society, and politics in three worlds, reflections of a Filipino sojourner, 1965-95 / Reynaldo C. Ileto -- From contemplating wordsworth's daffodils to listening to the voices of the nation / Wong Soak Koon -- Crafting anthropology in many sites of fieldwork / Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool -- A non-linear intellectual trajectory, my diverse engagements of the self and others in knowledge production / Yunita Winarto -- Negotiating boundaries and alterity, the making of a humanities scholar in Indonesia, a personal reflection / Melani Budianta -- Between state and revolution, autobiographical notes on radical scholarship during the Marcos dictatorship / Patricio N. Abinales -- (Un)learning human sciences, the journey of a Malaysian from the look east generation / Goh Beng-Lan -- Architecture, Indonesia and making sense of the New Order / Abidin Kusno -- Riding the postmodern chaos, a reflection on academic subjectivity in Indonesia / Fadjar I. Thufail.