The Fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history – too lage for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long been seen as the origin of the early modern era in Southeast Asia, but […]

The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and fifteenth centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia, but the Cham territories eventually became part

In exploring the past, researchers labour in the present: to locate the archival document which is located somewhere behind a gate with its keeper: or to find that elusive participant who will throw light on a gap in our knowledge, and convice them to speak. The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History meditates on this

Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth adn Schatzki and rethinkd the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing

Bhangra is common understood as teh hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhytms. This is derived from a Panjabi harvest dance of the same name. The book looks at Bhangra’s global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian