Monsoon Asia : a reader on South and Southeast Asia / edited by David Henley and Nira Wickramasinghe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henley, David, editor.

Wickramasinghe, Nira, editor.

Series:

Critical, connected histories ; volume 4.

Critical, connected histories ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asia--Research--Methodology.

South Asia.

Southeast Asia--Research--Methodology.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2023.

Summary:

<i>Monsoon Asia</i> was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a connected space, has been in the past and is today. Sixteen tightly knit chapters, written by experts from perspectives ranging from Indology and philology to postcolonial and transnational studies, offer a captivating view of the region, with its rich and variegated history shaped by commonalities in human ecology, cultural forms, and religious practices. The contributions draw upon extensive research and a thorough command of the most recent scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable text for anyone interested in South and Southeast Asia, and for more specialized students in the fields of global and Indian Ocean history, transcultural studies, archaeology, linguistics, and politics.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: Seasons and Civilizations

David Henley

Chapter 2. Revisiting the Monsoon Asia Idea: Old Problems and New Directions

Andrea Acri

Chapter 3. Space and Time in the Making of Monsoon Asia

Jos Gommans

Chapter 4. New Paradigms for the Early Relationship between South and Southeast Asia: The Contribution of Southeast Asian Archaeology

Pierre-Yves Manguin

Chapter 5. Contacts, Cosmopoleis, Colonial Legacies: Interconnected Language Histories

Tom Hoogervorst

Chapter 6. Indianization Reconsidered: India's Early Influence in Southe

Hermann Kulke

Chapter 7. Local Projects and Transregional Modalities: The Pali Arena

Anne M. Blackburn

Chapter 8. Muslim Circulations and Islamic Conversion in Monsoon Asia

R. Michael Feener

Chapter 9. Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia

Ronit Ricci

Chapter 10. Languages of Law: Islamic Legal Cosmopolis and its Arabic and Malay Microcosmoi

Mahmood Kooria

Chapter 11. Human Traffic: Asian Migration in the Age of Steam

Sunil Amrith

Chapter 12. The Problem of Transregional Framing in Asian History: Charmed Knowledge Networks and Moral Geographies of "Greater India"

Marieke Bloembergen

Chapter 13. Pragmatic Asianism: International Socialists in South and Southeast Asia

Carolien Stolte

Chapter 14. The Informality Trap: Politics, Governance and Informal Institutions in South and Southeast Asia

Ward Berenschot

Chapter 15. Epics in Worlds of Performance: A South/Southeast Asian Narrativity

Bernard Arps

Chapter 16. Postscript: The Many Worlds of Monsoon Asia

Nira Wickramasinghe

Bibliography

About the authors

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400604360

940060436X

OCLC:

1374428067