Spirits and ships : cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia

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Spirits and ships : cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia

Title remainder

cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia

Statement of responsibility

edited by Andrea Acri, Roger Blench, Alexandra Landmann

Contributor

• Landmann, Alexandra
• Acri, Andrea, 1981-
• Blench, R.

Editor

• Blench, R.
• Landmann, Alexandra
• Acri, Andrea, 1981-

Subject

• Asia -- Civilization
• Asia -- Relations

Language

eng

Summary

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, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and "local" or "indigenous" cultures, this multidisciplinary volume explores the metaphor of Monsoon Asia as a vast geo-environmental area inhabited by speakers of numerous language phyla, which for millennia has formed an integrated system of littorals where crops, goods, ideas, cosmologies, and ritual practices circulated on the sea-routes governed by the seasonal monsoon winds. The collective body of work presented in the volume describes Monsoon Asia as an ideal theatre for circulatory dynamics of cultural transfer, interaction, acceptance, selection, and avoidance, and argues that, despite the rich ethnic, linguistic and sociocultural diversity, a shared pattern of values, norms, and cultural models is discernible throughout the region.--

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• The Nalanda-Sriwijaya series
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

28