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The Story of Southeast Asia - Couverture souple

Thompson, Eric C.

 
9789813252349: The Story of Southeast Asia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9813252340 ISBN 13 : 9789813252349
Editeur : NUS Press, 2024

Synopsis

A complete narrative history of Southeast Asia.

The oldest figurative cave paintings in the world are found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Hand stencils and animals painted some 45,000 years ago attest to a long history of human creativity. The Story of Southeast Asia tells how the peoples of the region have crafted their diverse societies and cultures over thousands of years. Southeast Asia has been a remarkable crossroads of global connections for millennia. Whereas other regions have been defined by centralizing forces, Southeast Asia's story is one of complex networks of trade, ideas, and social relationships. Southeast Asians have created, localized, and remade their own cultural values by drawing on influences from around the world.

Marshalling the latest literature from anthropology, archaeology, history, and other disciplines, Eric C. Thompson highlights broad themes that cut across history: including the making--and evasion--of states, adoption of diverse religious practices, tolerance and flexibility regarding gender, processes of forging modern identities, struggles over sovereignty, and the making of modern nations in a postcolonial world. This readable, single-volume history reckons with the narrative pull of familiar colonial and national perspectives but maintains a regional and deep-historical focus. It will be a stimulating read for scholars as well as students and newcomers to Southeast Asian history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric C. Thompson is associate professor of anthropology in the department of sociology and anthropology at the National University of Singapore.

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Éditeur
NUS Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9813252340
ISBN 13 
9789813252349
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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