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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: (OCoLC)978353807 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandra Landmann; R Blench; Andrea Acri; Project Muse. |
ISBN: | 9789814762755 981476275X 9814762776 9789814762779 |
OCLC Number: | 1012757769 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 577 pages ) |
Contents: | ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction: Re-connecting Histories across the Indo-Pacific""; ""2. Fearsome Bleeding, Boogeyman Gods and Chaos Victorious: A Conjectural History of Insular South Asian Religious Tropes""; ""3. Tantrism ""Seen from the East""""; ""4. Can We Reconstruct a ""Malayo-Javanic"" Law Area?""; ""5. Ethnographic and Archaeological Correlates for an Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area""; ""6. Was There a Late Prehistoric Integrated Southeast Asian Maritime Space? Insight from Settlements and Industries""; ""7. Looms, Weaving and the Austronesian Expansion"" ""8. Pre-Austronesian Origins of Seafaring in Insular Southeast Asia""""9. The Role of ""Prakrit"" in Maritime Southeast Asia Through 101 Etymologies""; ""10. Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak?""; ""11. Sastric and Austronesian Comparative Perspectives: Parallel Frameworks on Indic Architectural and Cultural Translations among Western Malayo-Polynesian Societies""; ""12. The Lord of the Land Relationship in Southeast Asia"" |
Series Title: | Book collections on Project MUSE. |
Responsibility: | edited by Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann. |
Abstract:
This volume seeks to foreground a "borderless" history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) "high" cultures (e.g. Sanskritic,
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