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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections

Author : Anjana Sharma
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786416

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections by Anjana Sharma Pdf

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core the inter-regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection’s core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped — and in turn have been shaped by — changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections

Author : Anjana Sharma
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814786430

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections by Anjana Sharma Pdf

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core in the inter-regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection's core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped - and in turn have been shaped by - changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.

Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature

Author : Ding Choo Ming,Willem van der Molen
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814786577

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Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature by Ding Choo Ming,Willem van der Molen Pdf

Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years. Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

1819 & Before

Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814951425

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1819 & Before by Kwa Chong Guan Pdf

The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Sufi Rituals and Practices

Author : Kashshaf Ghani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192889225

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Sufi Rituals and Practices by Kashshaf Ghani Pdf

This book explores the institution of Sufism, the most dynamic face of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, as it sets out to study the mystical rituals and devotional practices that characterize Sufism's beliefs and traditions.

Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances

Author : Kiran Shinde
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783036518671

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Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances by Kiran Shinde Pdf

The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.

Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes

Author : M.B. Rajani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811574665

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Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes by M.B. Rajani Pdf

This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity. Such evidence can be hard to detect at ground-level, but may be visible in remote sensing (RS) imagery from aerial platforms and satellites. Drawing on examples from around the world as well as from her own research work on archaeological sites in India (including Nalanda, Agra, Srirangapatna, Talakadu, and Mahabalipuram), the author presents a systematic process for integrating this information with historical spatial records such as old maps, paintings, and field surveys using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to gain new insights into our past. Further, the book highlights several instances where these insights are actionable -- they have been used to identify, understand, conserve, and protect the fragile remnants of our past. This book will be of particular interest not only to researchers in archaeology, history, art history, and allied fields, but to governmental and non-governmental professionals working in cultural heritage protection and conservation.

The Way of the Barbarians

Author : Shao-yun Yang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746012

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The Way of the Barbarians by Shao-yun Yang Pdf

Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society

Author : Chandrika Kaul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030590352

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M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society by Chandrika Kaul Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot showcases new research on M.K. Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi, and the press, telegraphs, broadcasting and popular culture. Despite Gandhi being the subject of numerous books over the past century, there are few that put media centre stage. This edited collection explores both Gandhi’s own approach to the press, but also how different advocacy groups and the media, within India and overseas, engaged with Gandhi, his ideology and methodology, to further their own causes. The timeframe of the book extends from the late nineteenth century up to the present, and the case studies draw inspiration from a number of disciplinary approaches.

Imagining Asia(s)

Author : Andrea Acri,Kashshaf Ghani,Murari K Jha,Sraman Mukherjee
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814818865

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Imagining Asia(s) by Andrea Acri,Kashshaf Ghani,Murari K Jha,Sraman Mukherjee Pdf

As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. Recent scholarship has highlighted how the seemingly self-contained regional configurations of West and Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia carved by the Area Studies paradigm reflect changing (geo)political and economic interests than historical or cultural roots. This volume advances the question as to what Asia is, and as to whether there existed one or many Asia(s). It seeks to explore Asian societies as interconnected formations through trajectories/networks of circulation of people, ideas, and objects in the longue durée. Moving beyond the divides of Area Studies scholarship and the arbitrary borders set by late colonial empires and the rise of post-colonial nation-states, this volume maps critically the configuration of contact zones in which mobile bodies, minds, and cultures interact to foster new images, identities, and imaginations of Asia.

Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore

Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789815104479

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Shipwrecks and the Maritime History of Singapore by Kwa Chong Guan Pdf

On 16 June 2021 the National Heritage Board announced the successful conclusion of the archaeological excavation of two shipwrecks at the eastern approach to Singapore. This maritime archaeology excavation, the largest in Singapore’s waters, was conducted by the Archaeology Unit of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute over a six-year period. This book documents these two shipwrecks, complemented by essays on Singapore’s maritime history, from Temasek in the fourteenth century through the emergence of country trade in the late eighteenth century. These two shipwrecks challenge us to rethink Singapore’s history as globally connected, determined by what was happening on the seas in and around the island.

Nanyang

Author : Wang Gungwu
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786515

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Nanyang by Wang Gungwu Pdf

This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggle to build new nations during four decades of an ideological Cold War and the Chinese determination to move from near-collapse in the 1940s and out of the traumatic changes of the Maoist revolution to become the powerhouse that it now is.

Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia

Author : Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao,Hui Yew-Foong,Philippe Peycam
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786157

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Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao,Hui Yew-Foong,Philippe Peycam Pdf

This volume is based on papers from the second in a series of three conferences that deal with the multi-scalar processes of heritage-making, ranging from the local to the national and international levels, involving different players with different degrees of agency and interests. These players include citizens and civil society, the state, and international organizations and actors. The current volume focuses on the role of citizens and civil society in the politics of heritage-making, looking at how these players at the grass-roots level make sense of the past in the present. Who are these local players that seek to define the meaning of heritage in their everyday lives? How do they negotiate with the state, or contest the influence of the state, in determining what their heritage is? These and other questions will be taken up in various Asian contexts in this volume to foreground the local dynamics of heritage politics.

14th Century Malay Code of Laws

Author : Uli Kozok
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814620499

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14th Century Malay Code of Laws by Uli Kozok Pdf

"e;That is why the impressive results of the fieldwork and subsequent analytical research by the German scholar, Dr. Uli Kozok, are remarkable. By devoting considerable time and funds to his project in the interior of Sumatra, Kozok has produced results that will change the writing of the history of Malay. [...] By conducting fieldwork (Kozok saw the text in Kerinci in August 2002), by following up leads from the colonial literature (Voorhoeve's compilation), by analyzing the text without depending on accepted knowledge and by taking the step of using the latest technology to obtain an empirical perspective about the material, Kozok has succeeded in laying a major part of a foundation for the rewriting of the history of Malay in Indonesia!"e; - James T. Collins (2004, pp. 18-19)

Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410695

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Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.