title: [The population and character of traditional communities in insular Southeast Asia].
abstract: "This article discusses the character of population distribution and its relation to the structure of societies and states in Insular Southeast Asia in the early and mid nineteenth century.  Except in Java and Bali, populations were characterized by sparsity, diversity, smallness, and mutual independence.  Despite the effects of crisis mortality, the long-term population growth in the traditional period seems not to have been much different from [that] in India and China, which suggests the smallness of the original or early populations."  The author notes that new communities were formed by the separation of settlements in frontier regions and that these patterns continued into the middle of the nineteenth century.  The traditional order seems to have broken down in the late nineteenth century as a result of the combined pressures of colonialism and population increase.  (summary in ENG)
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsubouchi
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012942:Social Sciences
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developing Countries; Geographic Factors; Historical Demography; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Settlement And Resettlement; Social Sciences; Southeastern Asia; Spatial Distribution