The “Guardian Gals” of 1950s Burma
Earlier this year I wrote an entry (here) about a magazine from Malaysia called Malaysian Panorama which had pictures of beautiful women on its cover, but the content of the…
UNESCO, Hùng Kings, and the Benefits of Being Vague
So UNESCO just placed the worship of the Hùng Kings on its “List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” News of this announcement is spreading quickly, and it’s already…
Wise Words from Outsourced Spam Writers
Ok, to take a break (just this once) from being “serious,” I just noticed that this blog has a “spam” folder, and that it has some messages in it. I…
What Happened to the Đông Sơn Headhunters?
Not long ago I wrote (here) about an article by Bác sĩ Kiều Quang Chẩn in which he argues that the custom of headhunting probably existed in the Red River…
Digitizing the Historical Geography of Vietnam with GIS
One digital humanities project that I would love to see take place would be the creation of a web page that would enable people to interactively examine the extensive amount…
What do Đông Sơn Bronze Drums have to do with the Việt?
Đông Sơn bronze drums are beautiful artifacts that attest to the sophistication of the people who made them, but how were those people related to the people who eventually came to refer to themselves as the Việt?
I was thinking about this question while reading an entry in Lê Tắc’s fourteenth-century Brief Treatise on An Nam (An Nam chí lược) about the “Lạo Tử” (獠子).
It’s Time for Southeast Asian History to Go Digital
The “digital humanities” is, if not the hottest field in academia in the US today, certainly the fastest growing. If you observe the announcements that are posted to web sites…
Agro-Cultural Complexes Instead of Ethnic Groups in Mainland SEAsia
Well since the “Vietnamese Historical Scholarship is Dead” post is getting some attention these days, it’s a good chance to follow up on something that I only mentioned in passing…
A Vietnamese View of Interracial Couples in 1919 London
Having just written about Eurasians in Singapore during World War II, let us now take a look at how Eurasians come about – through interracial relationships. I came across some…
Betraying Eurasians in WW II Singapore
I think it would be safe to say that anthropologist Ann Stoler is one of the pioneers of the study of “mixed-race” peoples in colonial settings, and in European colonies…
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