Spirits and Ships : Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia /
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 t...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
ISEAS,
2017.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (577 pages). |
ISBN: | 9789814762779 |