Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There's been a lot of…
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Eastern Indonesia in the Desawarnana
The earliest written documentation of several Indonesian islands occurs in canto 14 of the Desawarnana, the East Javanese topogenic poem of 1365. There’s been a lot of…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren't many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there's no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they're less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
The Kutai Inscriptions – Introduction
The earliest inscriptions from Indo-Malaysia are generally considered to be the Kutai inscriptions from eastern Borneo (now a national park), dated on stylistic grounds to the fourth…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson’s translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Mpu Prapanca and the ‘Desawarnana’
It was my birthday yesterday, and my lovely girlfriend bought me a copy of Stuart Robson's translation of the Desawarnana, the famous Old Javanese kāvya, or poem,…
Active Collections: A Brown Bag Talk with Rainey Tisdale
Filed under: History, Material Culture, Mathers Museum, Museum Anthropology
Active Collections: A Brown Bag Talk with Rainey Tisdale
Filed under: History, Material Culture, Mathers Museum, Museum Anthropology
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads’ – a talk at Blackwell’s
Yesterday afternoon I went to Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford to see the Byzantinist Peter Frankopan talk about his new book, The Silk Roads, which seems to be…
Chinese Sources on Indonesia – Romanisation!
Perhaps the most important language for working out a narrative history of ancient Indonesia and Malaysia, besides Malay and Javanese, is classical Chinese. It might actually be…
DDT’s long shadow: Long-banned chemicals linked to abnormal sperm
A study of men from the Faroe Islands finds that high DDT and PCB exposure during adolescence and adulthood is associated with abnormal chromosomes in sperm. By Brian…
Marco Polo on Sago (Metroxylon sagu)
There is no single authoritative edition or manuscript detailing Marco Polo's travels. The consensus is that the first editions of what became Le Devisement du Monde were…
European Primary Sources for Ancient Indonesia
I've recently been delving into the European primary sources on ancient Indonesia, including Pliny the Elder, Marco Polo, Niccolo de' Conti, Antonio Pigafetta, Afonso de Albuquerque…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
Tom Klatka pauses after clearing debris to expose the end of a grave shaft in the Kentland slave cemetery. Note the larger exposed grave shaft in the background.…
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…
My Home is my Castle
Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome Recently I had the pleasure of reading the work of a budding local anthropologist/architect, Ms. Len…