Seminar on the Pyu raises ethnic tensions
A recent seminar on the archaeology of the Pyu, a group of city-states located in central Myanmar, raises some controversy ...
Tag: race and ethnicity
Race and ethnicity are artificial ways to categorise people by way of physical and cultural (race) or language and cultural traits (ethnicity), respectivley. As these terms are not fixed to any physical or biological attribute their meaning can be quite arbitrary since they may have different meanings in different contexts.
Confirming Ibaloi history through archaeology
A Philippine archaeologist suggests that archaeology has the potential to confirm events in Ibaloi oral history. One such event includes ...
Wednesday Rojak #60 – The Broken Pagoda edition
It's truly a rojak edition of rojak - I can't find a theme to string all these posts through! We've ...
Website about ethnic populations in Southeast Asia
Ethnoarchaeologists might find this site useful, perhaps? The Center for Ethnic Studies and Development at Chiang Mai University has a ...
Wednesday Rojak #33
In this week's edition of rojak we have a Malaysian flavour to things, from architecture, ethnology and politics! photo credit: ...
Differing concepts of "Malay"-ness
I mentioned in the previous post about the Negara Kertagama about how Malaysia and Indonesia are embroiled in a dispute ...
Public Lecture: "Malay Ethnic Identity: Unravelling the Historical from the Discursive"
On face value, this looks like a lecture dealing with the politics of identity and ethnicity, but the historical approach ...
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